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Here is a press release from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
I found the press release on the Canada NewsWire web site
at http://newswire.flexnet.com/  I don't work for the RCMP,
but I thought that readers of this newsgroup
would be interested in the arrests.


    SEVEN CHARGED WITH TELEMARKETING FRAUD
    
        Attention News Editors/Crime Reporters:
        
            MILTON, Ont., Nov. 9 /CNW/ - On November 9th, 1995, seven people
were arrested for Conspiracy to Defraud the Public and Conspiracy to
Launder Money Obtained by Crime by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
Milton Detachment, Commercial Crime Section.
        
            CHARGED ARE:
        
            Albert MALKA, age 42, of Thornhill, Ontario
            Avraham BENMOISE, age 40, of North York, Ontario
            Paul KURLANDSKI, age 45, of North York, Ontario
            Lawrence BRESLOW, age 52, of North York, Ontario
            Warren ALBERT, age 31, of North York, Ontario
            Elie VIDAL, age 20 of Thornhill, Ontario
            Selijdin SALI, age 59 of Etobicoke, Ontario
        
            The accused were arrested by warrant and appeared in Provincial
Court, College Park, Toronto for bail hearings.

            The charges resulted from a 10 month joint investigation with
the RCMP Newmarket Proceeds of Crime Section and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation into a boiler-room which operated in the Markham,
Ontario area. The telemarketing scam involved the fraudulent sale of
semi-precious metals and/or gem stones to or on behalf of numerous
unsuspecting individuals.

            It is alleged the boiler-room operated under various corporate
names such as Global Trading Services or Columbus Financial Group and
represented themselves to be in Nassau, Bahamas and Phoenix, Arizona.
The victims were all contacted via telephone with offers to sell
their holdings of semi-precious metals (Indium/Germanium) or gem
stones (rubies, sapphires, etc.). However, in order for the sale to
be completed, the victims were required to make a security deposit as
a sign of good faith or were required to make an additional purchase
of the investment commodity. In some cases, the victims were charged
a fictitious storage fee in order to release the goods prior to the
sale. The victims' holdings were never liquidated and in some cases
the investments did not exist.

            The victims, all residents of the United States, suffered losses
estimated at $250,000 U.S. Dollars from this fraudulent boiler-room
operation.
        
   
   
   For further information: Inspector W.C. (Ches) Somers, Officer In
   Charge, Milton Commercial Crime Section, Office - (905) 876-9651,
   Pager - 1-800-640-RCMP (pager no. 92349)
   
   16:26 Eastern 09-Nov-1995
   

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Nigel Allen          ndallen@io.org     http://www.io.org/~ndallen