4 B.C. businessmen charged following investigation into alleged immigration fraud
Four notable B.C. businessmen face a series of charges under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) for their role in an alleged immigration fraud network.
The charges are tied into a four-year Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) investigation into Can-Asia Immigration Consultants' Rupinder (Ron) Batth and his wife Navdeep Batth, who now also face dozens of charges between them.
Randhir (Randy) Toor, Surinder Paul Singla, Ved Kaler and Gurtaj Grewal each face multiple counts of counselling or attempting to counsel misrepresentation or helping people misrepresent facts related to their immigration. The men were all charged in early September along with the Batths.
Court documents filed in 2017 to obtain a search warrant of the Can-Asia office in Surrey, the Batth's home in Langley and several safety deposit boxes, name the companies run by the four men as businesses of interest in the CBSA investigation.
Twenty-five other companies are listed in the document, along with 144 foreign nationals.