Mississauga man accused of defrauding woman of more than $200,000
Published On Thu, 24 May 2012
Katherine Dunn
Staff Reporter

A Mississauga man was arrested on fraud charges at a Toronto hotel Wednesday, where he was allegedly meeting with a victim to exchange a briefcase stuffed with fake money.

The man is alleged to have convinced a woman that a relative left her a large inheritance offshore. In return for the promised money, she purchased fraudulent certificates and fees.

The woman lost $217,300, police said.

The man was allegedly meeting with the victim to receive more money when he was arrested.

Police said there may be other victims, and said that anyone who has had contact with the individual should contact them.

Ikechukwu Victor Ozumba, 32, also known as Andrew Morgan, has been charged with fraud and possession of a forged document.

Sultan Ahmed enters Ontario Superior Court on University Ave. earlier this week, during his trial on charges including aggravated assault causing bodily harm. Peter Small/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO

Toronto cyclist injury: Cabbie says he feared for his life
Published On Thu, 24 May 2012

Sultan Ahmed enters Ontario Superior Court on University Ave. earlier this week, during his trial on charges including aggravated assault causing bodily harm.
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Peter Small
Courts Bureau

A cabbie who mangled the leg of a cyclist during a late-night dispute says he accidentally reversed into the man after he threatened to shoot him.

“I thought he was going to kill me,” Sultan Ahmed, 42, testified Thursday.

Ahmed has pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault and various driving offences causing bodily harm.

Alice Mei See Leung is seen in front of the conductor at a Toronto Chinese Orchestra performance. She played yangqin, a hammered dulcimer, and joined the orchestra 10 years ago. SING TAO PHOTO

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Alice Mei See Leung is seen in front of the conductor at a Toronto Chinese Orchestra performance. She played yangqin, a hammered dulcimer, and joined the orchestra 10 years ago.
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Nicholas Keung
Staff Reporter

When Anna Guo heard in the news that a 47-year-old Scarborough woman and her 80-year-old mother were killed outside an Atlantic City casino, she had a bad feeling.

Guo, a renowned performer of the Chinese yangqin (hammered dulcimer), immediately called her student, Alice Mei See Leung, at her office at Toronto’s Century Iron Mines Corp.

“Someone else answered the phone and I knew it was a bad sign,” Guo said Thursday. “The person said Alice had passed away. I felt sick to the stomach.”

Uthayakanthan "Mano" Thirunavukkarasu was sentenced Thursday in an insurance scam that faked 13 car crashes. STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR

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Uthayakanthan “Mano” Thirunavukkarasu was sentenced Thursday in an insurance scam that faked 13 car crashes.
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Betsy Powell
Courts Bureau

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.

According to a profile on America's Most Wanted's website, police describe Lika as an illegal immigrant from the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia, rumored to have been involved in transporting prostitutes into Italy, and killing a fellow Albanian in a blood feud. SCREEN IMAGE FROM AMERICA'S MOST WANTED

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According to a profile on America’s Most Wanted’s website, police describe Lika as an illegal immigrant from the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia, rumored to have been involved in transporting prostitutes into Italy, and killing a fellow Albanian in a blood feud.
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Katherine Dunn
Staff Reporter

Police arrested a 47-year-old man wanted by the FBI and featured on the television show America’s Most Wanted Thursday afternoon.

The man was arrested in a joint operation by border services and the Toronto police’s fugitive squad near Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton Ave.

Kujtim “Jimmy” Lika is facing charges related to organized crime and drug offences. He is being held in Toronto and extradition proceedings are set to begin.

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