CRIME WATCH
Love The Honorific
"A scammer has been jailed and faces deportation to Nigeria for using the identities of three dead Calgarians to apply for credit cards and defraud banks. ... The fraud unravelled when the manager of the condominium complex on 17th Street S.W. where [the fraudster] lived reported there had been a lot of mailbox break-ins. She suspected him because he had recently asked her for a list of vacant units as well as other vacant homes managed by her company. ... Prince Olufemi Oshodi, 35, made matters worse during his trial by presenting forged letters from Nigeria meant to garner sympathy and perhaps a more lenient sentence. On Thursday, provincial court Judge Anne Brown gave him two years less a day after accepting a joint sentencing proposal by Crown prosecutor Brian Kiers and defence lawyer Alain Hepner. 'Oshodi's actions caused emotional and other difficulties for the grieving widows of the deceased men,' Kiers told the judge.
Oshodi previously pleaded guilty to the three counts of personation to gain credit, then admitted Thursday to four counts of forging documents that he had created in hopes of reducing his sentence. The judge said it was bad enough that Oshodi used the names of recently deceased people for financial gain, but he made it worse by lying to the court. The forged letters indicated his three step-daughters were being expelled from college for non-payment of fees. " (Calgary Herald, April 23, 2010) Good grief. It really is some kind of national compulsion.
[This article appears in the May, 2010 issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]
