Posted on 01/15/2011 2:35:56 PM PST by La Lydia
TORONTO The RCMP has arrested a Quebec immigration consultant accused of providing Canadian citizenship documents to hundreds of people in the Middle East so they could collect benefits and tax refunds from Ottawa. Ahmad El-Akhal, 62, was arrested Thursday following a 2-1/2-year investigation by the RCMP...His wife was also arrested as well as a suspected accomplice...The fraud ring is accused of securing immigrant status and citizenship for more than 300 residents of Lebanon and other Middle East countries and helping them bilk the Canadian government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars...They were getting tax refunds, Goods and Services Tax rebates, child credit tax benefits, so the whole gamut.
El-Akhal, who lives in Lile-Bizard, Que., has been charged with 58 counts including forgery and fraud. His wife Tahani Mohamad Hassan El-Akhal, 53, was charged with possession of proceeds obtained by crime...
Also charged was Mississauga resident Hassan Ali Saif, 44, who faces three charges under the Citizenship Act. He was the leasor of some of the residences. And also he forged lease agreements and created mail addresses for these people. He actually collected the mail and gathered the information and sent it back to Montreal, Sgt. LaPorte said....
The alleged crimes go back as far as 1999. The investigation began in 2008 after Citizenship and Immigration Canada noticed that 320 permanent residence applicants had given the same 29 home addresses in Canada. The RCMP traced 260 of the applications and found they were all linked to Mr. El-Akhal. None of those who secured citizenship and government benefits through Mr. El-Akhal actually lived in Canada...
The RCMP alleges that several hundred foreign nationals not residing in Canada used fraudulent means to obtain Canadian Citizenship and Canadian travel documents, the RCMP said in a statement Thursday afternoon...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
The Church has been destroyed in Quebec in under three generations. The leftist promises of the 1960s and 70s took a few years to come to fruition, but they are now alive and well, ironically in a “federaliste” Quebec. So, in a nutshell, G-d is gone, marriage is gone, business has dried up, nationalist pride has evaporated...
It’s ideal soil for a Moslem takeover.
Canada ping!
What a moron. He betrayed his own country, if there are any terrorist actions made it would be his family, friends and himself who would suffer.
Bring down your own country for a couple of bucks. Send him to Iran with a scarlet T branded on his forehead, T for Traitor.
Lemme guess... was he Amish?
Alinsky Tactics for a Muzlum takeover of Canada so they can swoop down on the USofA?
McCarran Act or Internal Security Act of 1950, also known as the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C.A. § 781 et seq.)
Section 4 [a]
We already have the laws on the books, they’re just not being followed by our own Justice Dept.
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