StarExclusive: Ontario claims $75M stolen in ‘kickback schemes’ run by alleged ringleader of COVID-19 fraud
The Ontario government is alleging that as much as $75 million in taxpayers’ money was stolen as part of elaborate “kickback schemes” in the awarding of computer contracts.accused in the alleged $11 million theft of COVID-19 relief funds, the Crown claims at least nine others are involved in a separate “conspiracy” dating back more than a decade.
That is over and above the $11 million allegedly taken from the Support for Families program, which gave Ontario parents $200 per child under age 12 and $250 per child and youth under 21 with special needs to offset online educational expenses early in the pandemic. Singh was charged with money laundering, fraud, and possession of stolen property and Manish Gambhir was charged with possession of stolen property and possession of an identity document related — or purported to relate — to another person. In the criminal matter, Singh and Gambhir have denied any wrongdoing. Gambhir is not named in the civil action.
Also named are 22 computer consultancy firms and numbered companies run by or linked to the 11 of them. On Wednesday, Sanjay’s lawyer, Christopher Du Vernet, said his client denies any such conspiracy ever existed and questioned the wisdom of the government’s expanded claim because there was an open bidding process.
Du Vernet said the expanded claim suggests the government is admitting “its own officials were asleep at the switch for an entire decade.”“ringleader” of a sophisticated scheme“It’s not just the fraud with respect to the Support for Families program, but also kickbacks with respect to the engagement of fee-for-services consultants,” Wayland told civil court last year.
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