From: AlanBaggett@volcanomail.com   
      
   Ontario CRA Employee Charged With $500,000 Fraud : CRA SOTW   
      
   By R. Paul Dhillon   
      
   BRAMPTON – A former Indo-Canadian employee of Canada Revenue Agency from the   
   Mississauga area of Toronto has been charged with massive fraud involving   
   small business loans, the RCMP announced in a release.   
      
   The GTA Financial Crime Section of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)   
   arrested and charged Jagdeep “Jay” Bhinder, 46, with 2 counts of Fraud Over   
   $5000 relating to small business loans. The estimated value of loss is   
   approximately $500,000.   
      
   The RCMP alleges that, in 2007, Bhinder acquired a small business loan for a   
   retail company by misleading the company principals and providing false   
   documents to the issuing bank resulting in financial loss to the company and   
   the bank.   
      
   The RCMP alleges that, also in 2007, Bhinder aided another company to acquire   
   a small business loan through the use of falsified and misleading documents   
   resulting in losses to the issuing bank and the Government of Canada.   
      
   Inspector Henry Tso of the RCMP credits the RCMPs vigilance of financial crime   
   as an important factor in the latest arrest. He further states that,   
   “maintaining confidence in the Canadian economy continues to be a strategic   
   priority within the RCMP”.   
      
   But Bhinder’s alleged criminal activity involving his small business loan scam   
   pales in comparison to what many Indo-Canadian businessmen in Ontario allege   
   were his criminal activities when he was still working for the Canada Revenue   
   Agency. Bhinder is    
   accused of harassing Indo-Canadian businesses and depositing monies owed by   
   them to the CRA into his personal accounts and then having those monies sent   
   abroad, mostly to India.   
      
   Brampton, Ontario-based businessman Roop Sandhu highlighted Bhinder’s whole   
   sordid saga in a letter to Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, CRA Commissioner in   
   Ottawa, telling her how Bhinder allegedly swindled millions of dollars from   
   poor unsuspecting Indo-   
   Canadian businessmen, sometimes threatening them with fake letters from the   
   CRA and then ensuring the businessmen that he would take care of it internally   
   for a under the table fee.   
      
   “Jay (Bhinder) will befriend his target, convince him and then start getting   
   favours from him,” Sandhu wrote to CRA’s Lizotte-MacPherson.   
      
   “He (Bhinder) will first manage to send letters from the CRA warning him of   
   possible action, then go to the victim, assure him and even tear off the   
   letter. Emboldened by this success, he spread his wings in the world of   
   corruption involving money, women    
   and property. He has amassed huge wealth and said to have bought properties in   
   the name of his father, wife and others,” Sandhu alleged in his letter.   
      
   Sandhu further writes in his letter to Lizotte-MacPherson that he is not alone   
   in being swindled, listing Bhinder’s other alleged victims, namely Satwinder   
   Singh, a resident of Caledon, and his brother Baljit Singh, Jaspal Singh   
   (Broadway Bakery in    
   Toronto), Bobby Sharma (East West Auto Shop in Brampton), Advanced Kitchen   
   Cabinets of Brampton, Uppal Videos of Malton, Geetex Trading of Mississauga,   
   and others.   
      
   Sandhu, along with his brother Karamjit Singh Sandhu, initially took their   
   complaint to CRA officers in Toronto in December 2010 before writing to the   
   Agency’s Commissioner Lizotte-MacPherson in April 2011. Sandhu wrote in his   
   letter that he had told    
   various CRA officers, including one named Fred Latini, the sordid details of   
   Bhinder’s alleged fraud and crimes but surprisingly he did not get much   
   response from the CRA officers he contacted. Instead, Sandhu alleges that CRA   
   froze his bank account,    
   resulting in extreme hardship for his large family. He was then forced to take   
   his complaint to a higher authority   
   It is not known whether Bhinder quietly resigned once the CRA began looking   
   into the allegations of his misconduct and alleged criminal activity or he was   
   fired. This case has not been covered by any mainstream media in Toronto,   
   including the usually    
   investigative Toronto Star newspaper.   
      
   Sandhu finally received a reply to his letter to Agency’s Commissioner   
   Lizotte-MacPherson dated June 2, 2011 from Danielle Morin, the Agency’s   
   Assistant Commissioner – Taxpayer Services and Debt Management Branch, in   
   which he was informed that his    
   complaint has been registered and that a copy of his letter was also sent to   
   Keith Ashfield, former Minister of National Revenue and Lyse Ricard, Deputy   
   Commissioner of the CRA.   
      
   Morin assured Sandhu that the Agency was taking Sandhu’s complaint very   
   seriously and that it will be fully investigated.   
      
   “Your comments regarding Mr. Jagdeep Bhinder are of great concern to me,”   
   Morin wrote. “The CRA recognizes that the highest level of public confidence   
   must be maintained if tax and related legislation are to administered   
   efficiently. The CRA sets    
   standards to ensure that its employees conduct themselves professionally and   
   offer quality service to taxpayers. In this respect, senior CRA officials have   
   been made aware of your comments and I assure you that the matter is being   
   carefully reviewed.”   
      
   It is not known where the CRA internal investigation has gone as nothing has   
   been made public on Sandhu’s complaint or how the agency dealt with the   
   allegations surrounding Bhinder or when exactly he was let go or resigned.   
      
      
      
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