A doctor, who used to practice in Regina, has been found guilty of 10 charges by the province’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Jordan Velestuk, now a doctor at a family practice in Moosomin, was fined $15,000 plus another $20,000 to cover legal costs. This comes after Velestuk was retroactively suspended for seven months. […]
Evraz is facing a $230,000 fine, plus a $92,000 surcharge, for a workplace injury in 2018. The Ontario-based company pleaded guilty to failing to ensure an effective safeguard was in place where a worker may contact a dangerous moving part of a machine resulting in a serious injury. The charges stem from an incident that […]
A Saskatoon man has been convicted of setting up a fake GoFundMe account for the Humboldt Broncos after the junior hockey team’s bus crashed. A provincial court judge found Andrij Olesiuk guilty of fraud under $5,000 and possession of stolen property obtained by crime. Court heard that Olesiuk raised $3,600 after the crash, but the money […]
A 14-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon for throwing coffee in the faces of two men in Regina last summer. The act caught media attention in July when a video was posted on Facebook. The men, who were not hurt, were in a parking lot near a Walmart and a Winners store. The Crown prosecutor […]
MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.’s construction division will plead guilty to a charge of fraud over $5,000 and pay a $280-million penalty related to work the company did in Libya. The plea deal comes on the heels of the conviction of a former top SNC-Lavalin executive last Sunday. The criminal cases are separate, but both relate to allegations […]
MONTREAL — A former SNC-Lavalin executive has been found guilty of paying off foreign officials and pocketing millions as he worked to secure contracts for the Canadian engineering company in Libya. A jury found Sami Bebawi, 73, guilty Sunday of all five charges he faced, including fraud, corruption of foreign officials and laundering proceeds of […]
