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National Post
2 days ago
- National Post
From killings to rape, the heinous crimes that could get you less jail time than a Freedom Convoy organizer
Article content The Crown would end up seeking the exact same sentence for the parents as that being sought for Barber: eight years in jail. Article content Shooting at police Article content In the summer of 2023 Siavash Ahmadi was pulled over by West Vancouver Police for suspected impaired driving. When instructed to retrieve his licence, Ahmadi instead reached into a bag of loaded guns, retrieved a pistol and fired at two officers from a distance of just two metres. Article content Admadi didn't hit anyone, and neither did the officers when they returned fire. At trial last November, the Crown sought a sentence of seven years. Ahmadi ultimately received just four years, in addition to a $1,000 fine for impaired driving. Article content Michael Augustine, 60, pled guilty to a 2022 incident in which he used his truck to intentionally ram a minivan carrying his step-daughter, whom he had just threatened to kill. Article content The minivan, which was carrying a total of four children and two pregnant women, rolled multiple times before coming to a stop in the woods, 83 metres from the road. Miraculously, nobody was killed, despite one of the children being ejected from the crash. Article content Article content Despite Augustine's long history of violent criminal convictions, the Crown sought eight years, and Augustine was ultimately sentenced to five. Article content While staying at an Edmonton homeless shelter, Stanley Jago attacked a confused fellow resident who had been returning from the bathroom, beating the man so badly that he suffered a fatal seizure. Article content In the court proceedings that followed, Jago gained a reputation for unstable behaviour, such as threatening court participants or attempting to attack sheriffs. Article content Jago was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to five years — just slightly less than the five-and-a-half years the Crown had been seeking. Article content In arguing that 56-year-old Prakash Lekhraj didn't feel any remorse for raping a teenaged girl, the Crown would only have needed to point to Lehkraj's testimony that 'he never needs to seek the consent of a female to have sexual relations with her.' Article content Lehkraj was convicted of both sexual assault and the production of child pornography for an August 2020 assault in which he photographed himself raping a minor before uploading the images to an online group chat. The victim 'took it like a champ,' wrote Lekhraj. Article content The Crown sought a sentence of four to five years, but a judge went with three years and three months. Article content Article content IN OTHER NEWS Article content Article content Article content Article content Amidst Canada's bid to fortify its economy against U.S. trade aggression, easily the most low-lying fruit has been the spectre of interprovincial trade barriers. The various regulatory issues that make it hard for provinces to trade with one another cost the Canadian economy an estimated $160 billion per year. Article content Nevertheless, despite some early successes in knocking down the barriers, a major setback occurred this week when Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew bowed out of a trade deal with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario that would commit all four provinces to collaborate on new pipelines, rail links and other infrastructure. Kinew didn't sign on the grounds that no such projects should proceed without Indigenous 'consensus.' That also happens to be the high standard that Prime Minister Mark Carney has suggested for any new federally administered infrastructure; that nothing gets built unless it has 'a consensus of all the provinces and the Indigenous people.' Article content Article content Article content
CTV News
31-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Incarcerated former mortgage broker agrees to pay B.C. regulator $35K over misconduct
A real estate sign is posted outside a home in Pointe-Claire, a city in Montreal's West Island, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press) A former B.C. mortgage broker has agreed to pay a $35,000 administrative penalty for failing to report a misleading mortgage application submitted in his name by his ex-wife. Siavash Ahmadi was registered as a submortgage broker from May 2019 until October 2022, according to a consent order he signed with the BC Financial Services Authority earlier this month. The document details the misconduct that led to the fine, the principal instance of which began in March 2020. According to the consent order, Ahmadi met with the prospective buyer of a Vancouver condo around that time, but determined that the buyer would not qualify for a mortgage, and declined to file an application for them. Ahmadi then travelled to Iran for two months. While he was away, his then-wife Ksenia Ivanova submitted a mortgage application for the client, using Ahmadi's Filogix account. Filogix is a software platform that connects mortgage brokers and lenders, according to the BCFSA. 'After returning from Iran, S. Ahmadi discovered (the client's) application had been submitted and been approved,' consent order reads. 'He also discovered at that time that the documents submitted in support of the application differed from the documents he had reviewed earlier and were inaccurate.' The consent order indicates Ivanova filed the application without Ahmadi's knowledge or approval. Ivanova was also a registered submortgage broker from 2015 to 2020. In a separate consent order signed last year, she, too, was fined $35,000 for using Ahmadi's account to submit misleading applications. Ivanova was also one of 23 people penalized for working with fake mortgage broker Jay Kanth Chaudhary. She is banned from reapplying for registration as a mortgage broker for 10 years. When Ahmadi got back from Iran, there were still a few days left before the transaction Ivanova had submitted was due to be completed, according to the consent order. Despite this, however, Ahmadi 'made no attempts to cancel the application or inform the lender, despite knowing the documents that supported the application were not accurate,' the consent order reads. It also notes that Ahmadi 'accepted financial documentation for his clients from third parties' without meeting with the clients directly on 'at least some of' eight other mortgage applications filed through his Filogix account from January 2020 through January 2021. The documents he received on behalf of each of the eight borrowers 'were not genuine and showed an income that was higher than the borrower's true reported earnings,' according to the consent order. All of this amounted to conducting mortgage business 'in a manner prejudicial to the public interest,' Ahmadi admitted in the document. In addition to the $35,000 administrative penalty, Ahmadi also agreed to pay $3,500 in 'investigation costs' to the BCFSA. 'BCFSA is committed to ensuring integrity in the mortgage services industry and will not hesitate to take action against those who compromise the public interest,' said Jon Vandall, the agency's senior vice-president of compliance and enforcement, in a news release about the case. 'The substantial administrative penalty of $35,000 reflects the severity of Ahmadi's actions and serves as a clear message that such misconduct will not be tolerated.' According to the consent order, Ahmadi 'is currently incarcerated for a significant period of time' as a result of convictions unrelated to his financial misconduct as a mortgage broker. While the document does not specify the crimes for which Ahmadi was convicted, a man by that name was sentenced earlier this year for offences stemming from a June 2023 standoff with police on a highway off-ramp in West Vancouver. He received a global sentence of four years – minus credit for time already served – for reckless discharge of a firearm and possession of a loaded or restricted firearm, as well as a $1,000 fine and a two-year driving ban for impaired driving.
