by Canadian Fraud News | Jun 19, 2026 | News
A Manitoba man facing trial on 26 fraud charges connected to past shipping-container pool businesses is now operating a new company offering a similar product under a different name. Former customers allege they paid tens of thousands of dollars for pools that were...
by Canadian Fraud News | Jun 19, 2026 | News
Greg Martel, the Victoria, B.C. mortgage broker behind a Ponzi scheme that brought in more than $300 million from investors, has been arrested in the country of Georgia. Martel has not been criminally charged, but he is the subject of a Canadian arrest warrant and a...
by Canadian Fraud News | Jun 19, 2026 | News
The FBI has arrested Said Abdullahi Ereg, the first person listed on the U.S. Justice Department’s “Most Wanted Fraudster” list. Ereg is accused of stealing more than $4 million from a federal child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first person...
by Canadian Fraud News | Jun 19, 2026 | News
A former Air Canada captain has been charged after Peel Regional Police alleged he flew hundreds of domestic and international flights over many years without holding the required airline transport pilot licence. Air Canada says the former pilot was trained, held a...
by Canadian Fraud News | Jun 19, 2026 | News
Sam Bankman-Fried has lost his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence in connection with the collapse of FTX. A three-judge panel of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to disturb the conviction, leaving in place one of the most...