A property in Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood, a botched line of credit, a trusting French man and an older couple he considered pseudo-parents are at the centre of a messy legal battle in B.C. Supreme Court.
A property in Vancouver’s Fairview neighbourhood, a botched line of credit, a trusting French man and an older couple he considered pseudo-parents are at the centre of a messy legal battle in B.C. Supreme Court., Gordon and Jeannine Kapelus, to pay more than $742,000 in damages for stealing Francois Milly’s life savings under the guise of friendship and legal guidance.
According to the judgment, Milly met the Kapeluses in 2009, a few years after immigrating to Canada from France. Since he saw the pair as his surrogate family, he often referred to the Kapeluses as “dad” and “mom.” Kapelus advised Milly against succumbing to TD’s demands, and began speaking to the bank on Milly’s behalf. In November 2016, after months of bargaining with TD, Kapelus convinced Milly to transfer his life savings to the corporate account of Janalex Investments Ltd., a company owned by the defendants. The theory was that this would improve Milly’s bargaining position even more, but in reality, those funds were transferred to Mr. and Mrs. Kapelus personally.
By June 2019, Milly decided to abandon the appeal and pay TD, and asked for his money back. At this point, the Kapelus couple broke off communications, and Milly was forced to rent out his house in Victoria, where he’d moved in hopes of retiring. From there, he went from being a defendant in a property case to a plaintiff in a fraud case, which consumed another three years of his life.
As it turns out, this was not the first time the Kapeluses have been in court. Mr. Kapelus represented his wife in her case against UBC, which spanned 23 years and ended in her loss.
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