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Canadian who fled country after Project OCTAVIA charges in 2020 re-arrested at Pearson International Airport by RCMP

Canadian who fled country after Project OCTAVIA charges in 2020 re-arrested at Pearson International Airport by RCMP

Another Indo-Canadian held in call centre scams Another Indo-Canadian held in call centre scams IANS / Updated: Dec 26, 2020, 06:00 IST centre frauds have cost Canadians over C$34 million since 2014 TORONTO Another Indo-Canadian man has been arrested and charged in connection with Indian call centre scams targeting Canadians. Abhinav Bector, 25, of Brampton, Toronto, has been charged with fraud over C$5,000, possession of proceeds of crime and laundering of the proceeds of crime. He will appe...

  TORONTO -- A 25-year-old Ontario man is facing charges in connection with a series of transnational phone frauds, including the infamous Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) phone scam. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a Brampton man as part of Project OCTAVIA, which was launched in Oct. 2018 to combat telephone fraudsters that are targeting Canadians. "These telephone fraudsters, operating from overseas, have been targeting the Canadian public since 2014," the RCMP said in a n...