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Fraud in Canada touches to the country
• Investigan accounts related to company of bets
Adrián Meza G.
ameza@nacion.com
Editor of the Nation
The one that is created is the greater fraud in the history of Canada touched to Costa Rica. Yesterday, the police smoothed a building of seven South Savannah floors, San jOse, where it operates a house of bets that will be investigated to determine if it has some nexus with the case.
The investigation began by an order of the authorities of Canada, that the 27 of April stopped a called man Salim Mohammed Damji, who is denounced in that country by a swindle that oscillates between $40 million and $100 million.
In addition:
Canadian they requested collaboration
It, during three years, offered to invest in his company, call Strategic System of Commerce (STS, by its abbreviations in English) and promised to give back $20 by each $1 inverted one.
Now, one thinks that he could have transferred $40 million (¢14.640 million) to Costa Rica and that leaves from the money he finds in accounts of the National Banks and Costa Rica.
Contribution
Country will send to Canada seized documents
The Penal Court of San jOse already ordered yesterday to congeal one of the accounts, in which $1.300.000 are deposited.
In as much, in the levelling, about 30 agents of the Organism of Investigacio'n Judicial (OIJ) and civil employees of the Public Ministry, took the offices from a house of bets by Internet, call Costa Rica Sport International, that comprises of the investigation.
Banks reported
In Costa Rica, the case was detected when both state banks reported to the Center of Inteligencia Conjunto Antidrogas (CICAD) very big movements of money, said the minister of Security, Rogelio Branches.
Before this information, the Unit of Financial Analysis of the CICAD investigated to the people and societies that were behind the banking accounts.
Branches said that which settled down that the money was received here by the society Magical Mountain of the South, according to him, has relation with the house of bets.
For that reason, judicial and fiscal agents of the Unit of Economic Crimes of the Public Ministry entered floors 5, 6 and 7 of the luxurious building yesterday to determine if there is documentation related to the case.
By great that is the building - located 75 the meters to the west of the Contraloría of the Republic he confiscates it will extend until today.
"those Are seven floors that we must review in search of documents. The work is much and slow ", it said a source related to the searches.
As far as the physical people who would be tie to the case, at the moment single it is had to one, about Fox. last name is a nationality man beliceña, that is outside our country, confirmed Branches.
Fox is the person who appears like representative of Costa Rica Sport International. Also it will be investigated to other people possibly related to the companies.
Finally, the police tracks the final whereabouts of great part of $40 million that would have arrived here, because not yet this information is handled.
In Canada, the case of Damji has been disclosed widely, even after which it had to form an investigating body of telephone frauds, along with the United States, by the amount of reported swindles.
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Canadian they requested collaboration
Supreme Court of Justice it went to ticas authorities
By means of a Rogatoria Letter sent to our Judicial Power, dated the 31 of May, the Supreme Court of Justice of Canada it asked for the collaboration of the country to obtain more evidences against Salim Damji , stopped from April by the fraud of $100 million.
This swindle committed it after the creation of Instantaneous White company STS, related to buccal health, and the sale of its actions.
Apparently, the Canadian offered to pay to affected up to the 20 times its investment.
By such reason, the fraud was so great. It is most important in the history of that country of the North.
Between the requests that arrived from Toronto is to investigate to several societies and tie people to them, from directors to common employees.
Also, they solicitd to go deep in the activities that Damji can have in our country like, for example, the electronic bets.
The Court it sent a series of account numbers and banking transactions that began to be made in March of the previous year, according to the Rogatoria Letter to which the Nation had access.
Fraud in Canada touches to the country
• Investigan accounts related to company of bets
Adrián Meza G.
ameza@nacion.com
Editor of the Nation
The one that is created is the greater fraud in the history of Canada touched to Costa Rica. Yesterday, the police smoothed a building of seven South Savannah floors, San jOse, where it operates a house of bets that will be investigated to determine if it has some nexus with the case.
The investigation began by an order of the authorities of Canada, that the 27 of April stopped a called man Salim Mohammed Damji, who is denounced in that country by a swindle that oscillates between $40 million and $100 million.
In addition:
Canadian they requested collaboration
It, during three years, offered to invest in his company, call Strategic System of Commerce (STS, by its abbreviations in English) and promised to give back $20 by each $1 inverted one.
Now, one thinks that he could have transferred $40 million (¢14.640 million) to Costa Rica and that leaves from the money he finds in accounts of the National Banks and Costa Rica.
Contribution
Country will send to Canada seized documents
The Penal Court of San jOse already ordered yesterday to congeal one of the accounts, in which $1.300.000 are deposited.
In as much, in the levelling, about 30 agents of the Organism of Investigacio'n Judicial (OIJ) and civil employees of the Public Ministry, took the offices from a house of bets by Internet, call Costa Rica Sport International, that comprises of the investigation.
Banks reported
In Costa Rica, the case was detected when both state banks reported to the Center of Inteligencia Conjunto Antidrogas (CICAD) very big movements of money, said the minister of Security, Rogelio Branches.
Before this information, the Unit of Financial Analysis of the CICAD investigated to the people and societies that were behind the banking accounts.
Branches said that which settled down that the money was received here by the society Magical Mountain of the South, according to him, has relation with the house of bets.
For that reason, judicial and fiscal agents of the Unit of Economic Crimes of the Public Ministry entered floors 5, 6 and 7 of the luxurious building yesterday to determine if there is documentation related to the case.
By great that is the building - located 75 the meters to the west of the Contraloría of the Republic he confiscates it will extend until today.
"those Are seven floors that we must review in search of documents. The work is much and slow ", it said a source related to the searches.
As far as the physical people who would be tie to the case, at the moment single it is had to one, about Fox. last name is a nationality man beliceña, that is outside our country, confirmed Branches.
Fox is the person who appears like representative of Costa Rica Sport International. Also it will be investigated to other people possibly related to the companies.
Finally, the police tracks the final whereabouts of great part of $40 million that would have arrived here, because not yet this information is handled.
In Canada, the case of Damji has been disclosed widely, even after which it had to form an investigating body of telephone frauds, along with the United States, by the amount of reported swindles.
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Canadian they requested collaboration
Supreme Court of Justice it went to ticas authorities
By means of a Rogatoria Letter sent to our Judicial Power, dated the 31 of May, the Supreme Court of Justice of Canada it asked for the collaboration of the country to obtain more evidences against Salim Damji , stopped from April by the fraud of $100 million.
This swindle committed it after the creation of Instantaneous White company STS, related to buccal health, and the sale of its actions.
Apparently, the Canadian offered to pay to affected up to the 20 times its investment.
By such reason, the fraud was so great. It is most important in the history of that country of the North.
Between the requests that arrived from Toronto is to investigate to several societies and tie people to them, from directors to common employees.
Also, they solicitd to go deep in the activities that Damji can have in our country like, for example, the electronic bets.
The Court it sent a series of account numbers and banking transactions that began to be made in March of the previous year, according to the Rogatoria Letter to which the Nation had access.
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