A five-year-long investigation into the immigration fraud ring has yielded two more suspects.
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20 January 2012
More charges brought in fraudulent Canadian immigration ring
An investigation into a Canadian immigration fraud case which began five years ago has issued two more arrest warrants.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed that Hani Dalqamouni and Nael Al-Mehdawi had both been charged with helping Hassan Al-Awaid assist foreign nationals gain a Canada visa through fraudulent means.
Both suspects are believed to be residing in Jordan and are alleged by the RCMP to have acted as points of contact for Al-Awaid.
Al-Awaid was charged in March 2011 and faces more than 50 counts of counselling, misrepresentation and false representation.
Now, after an exhaustive process which involved the ongoing investigation sifting through thousands of documents, two new arrest warrants have been issued.
Dalqamouni, a Canadian citizen has been charged with three counts of counselling misrepresentation and Al-Mehwadi, a permanent resident in Canada has been charged with misrepresentation.
"They would do it by providing false residency documents to show that they're living in Canada when in fact, they're not" said Terry Quinn, staff sergeant at the Atlantic Region Immigration and Passport Section.
"Along with that they would provide false telephone records, banking records, medical records all to show that they were living in Canada".
The ongoing investigation is part of a joint investigation between the RCMP and Canadian immigration authorities.
"This is an excellent example of how the RCMP with the assistance from Citizenship and Immigration Canada were successful in identifying and charging individuals who were assisting applicants to use fraudulent means to obtain Canadian Citizenship" said Mr Quinn.
The Canadian Visa Bureau is an independent migration consultancy specialising in helping people make their application to the Canadian Embassy.
