Watch - RCMP arrest alleged 'money mules' tied to overseas scam calls
Marketplace investigation helps lead to police probe and arrests
David Common, Nelisha Vellani and Andrew Sampson · CBC News · Posted: Feb 14, 2020 10:29 AM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago
Federal authorities have arrested a Toronto-area husband and wife accused of being Canadian accomplices to an enormous global scam involving overseas call centres, including the so-called CRA tax scam.
The calls will be familiar to many Canadians: Scammers, commonly in India, impersonate officials from the Canada Revenue Agency and insist the recipient owes taxes and must pay immediately, or else face arrest or imprisonment.
Gurinder Dhaliwal, 37, and Inderpreet Dhaliwal, 36, both of Brampton, Ont., were arrested and charged on Wednesday, said Insp. Jim Ogden, of the RCMP's financial crime unit for the Greater Toronto Area.
They each face one count of fraud over $5,000, one count of laundering the proceeds of crime and one count of property obtained by crime.
"We have disrupted the necessary flow of money from Canada to India, which will have a big impact on the operation and bottom line of scammers," Ogden said Friday, in announcing the charges.
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