Toronto man who staged car collisions in an insurance fraud is sent to prison
டொராண்டோவில் வியாபார கடன் மோசடியில் ஈடுபட்டதாக 4 தமிழர்கள் உள்ளிட்ட ஆறு பேர் மீது கனடிய சிறப்பு காவல்துறையினர் குற்றச்சாட்டுகளை பதிவு செய்துள்ளனர். இவர்கள் 2006 - 2007 காலப்பகுதியில் போலி ஆவணங்களை தயாரித்து கனடிய வங்கிகளிடம் இருந்து 2 மில்லியன் டொலருக்கும் அதிகமான பணத்தை மோசடி செய்துள்ளதாக சிறப்பு காவல்துறையினர் தெரிவிக்கின்றனர்.இவர்கள் போலியான வியாபார நிலையங்களை உருவாக்கி, அதற்கு தேவையா உபகரணங்களை வாங்குவதாகவும், அதனை அபிவிருத்தி செய்வதாகவும் கூறி, போலியான ஆவணங்களை வங்கிகளில் சமர்ப்பித்து இந்த மோசடியை செய்துள்ளதாக இவர்கள் மீது குற்றம் சுமத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது.
இதில் சுரேஷ் பரமலிங்கம் (33), பாலமுருகன் பாலகிருஷ்ணன் (32), பவன் சிவகுருநாதன் (31), ஆனந்தருபன் வையாபுரி (35), சுல்தான் ஜாபர் (44), மட்தேவ் புச்கின்காம் (31) மீது குற்றம் சுமத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது . இவர்கள் அனைவரும் 60 Queen Street West நீதிமன்றத்தில் ஆஜர்படுத்தப்பட்டு பிணையில் விடுவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
An insurance-scamming “choreographer” of 13 staged collisions on
Toronto’s busy streets was sent to prison for 3½ years Thursday.
Uthayakanthan “Mano” Thirunavukkarasu, 38, was one of the leaders of a criminal organization that recruited and directed a deceitful cast of participants, including dozens of so-called drivers and passengers who faked injuries for fraudulent insurance claims costing insurers $1.5 million.
Of that, $1.2 million flowed through Thirunavukkarasu’s business account. He has been ordered to pay restitution of $375,000.
Tow truck drivers, body repair shops and rehab clinics were also drawn into the “extremely sophisticated” scam by Thirunavukkarasu, who had “tentacles in every part of the plan,” Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon said in passing sentence.
“These aren’t staged in abandoned parking lots,” McMahon said. “Disaster could have struck any time.”
It did, in fact, in May 2007 when a staged crash in Scarborough went awry, leaving a man with permanent brain injury.
Thirunavukkarasu pleaded guilty earlier this year to 17 charges relating to 13 crashes in 2007, including instructing a criminal organization, fraud and criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
The Crown had asked for four years. Defence lawyer Barry Fox had suggested two years, but said two to four years was in the appropriate range.
Thirunavukkarasu was 6 when he saw his parents and sister macheted to death in Sri Lanka, court heard. He was under psychiatric care in his homeland but has functioned well since coming to Canada in 1990 where he has worked steadily since graduating from Grade 12.
The married father of three sought psychiatric care last year and is on medication for depression. There is no evidence mental health was an issue in 2007.
“What I did was terribly wrong. I’m very sorry for it,” Thirunavukkarasu said through a Tamil interpreter as tearful family members listened in court.
Richard Dubin, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s vice-president of investigative services, said there are still other charges relating to this case, one of 40 such investigations currently in the GTA.
“Staged collisions are, unfortunately, very common throughout the GTA . . . the staged collision capital of Canada.”
Not only do they threaten the safety of everybody on the road, they tie up emergency services and drive up the cost of insurance premiums, Dubin said
“The millions of dollars that are paid out are then passed on to honest policy (holders in Ontario).”
Uthayakanthan “Mano” Thirunavukkarasu, 38, was one of the leaders of a criminal organization that recruited and directed a deceitful cast of participants, including dozens of so-called drivers and passengers who faked injuries for fraudulent insurance claims costing insurers $1.5 million.
Of that, $1.2 million flowed through Thirunavukkarasu’s business account. He has been ordered to pay restitution of $375,000.
Tow truck drivers, body repair shops and rehab clinics were also drawn into the “extremely sophisticated” scam by Thirunavukkarasu, who had “tentacles in every part of the plan,” Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon said in passing sentence.
“These aren’t staged in abandoned parking lots,” McMahon said. “Disaster could have struck any time.”
It did, in fact, in May 2007 when a staged crash in Scarborough went awry, leaving a man with permanent brain injury.
Thirunavukkarasu pleaded guilty earlier this year to 17 charges relating to 13 crashes in 2007, including instructing a criminal organization, fraud and criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
The Crown had asked for four years. Defence lawyer Barry Fox had suggested two years, but said two to four years was in the appropriate range.
Thirunavukkarasu was 6 when he saw his parents and sister macheted to death in Sri Lanka, court heard. He was under psychiatric care in his homeland but has functioned well since coming to Canada in 1990 where he has worked steadily since graduating from Grade 12.
The married father of three sought psychiatric care last year and is on medication for depression. There is no evidence mental health was an issue in 2007.
“What I did was terribly wrong. I’m very sorry for it,” Thirunavukkarasu said through a Tamil interpreter as tearful family members listened in court.
Richard Dubin, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s vice-president of investigative services, said there are still other charges relating to this case, one of 40 such investigations currently in the GTA.
“Staged collisions are, unfortunately, very common throughout the GTA . . . the staged collision capital of Canada.”
Not only do they threaten the safety of everybody on the road, they tie up emergency services and drive up the cost of insurance premiums, Dubin said
“The millions of dollars that are paid out are then passed on to honest policy (holders in Ontario).”
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