Three Canadians fined US$4.1 million and two jailed for PPE fraud

He was sentenced to 80 months in prison and ordered to return the stolen money to 39 victims.

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Mirna Mahrous Habib – 25 years old from Mississauga, Ontario. She – she was sentenced to four months in prison and to eight of her victims she has to pay more than US$683,000 in damages. Habib pleaded guilty to her one count of identity theft, which was aggravated on December 2, 2021.

Finally, 24-year-old Karin Treister from Toronto will have to pay $30,000 in damages even though she was not ordered to spend time in prison. Treister pleaded guilty to her one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on December 9, 2021.

A fourth co-conspirator, 29-year-old Dijon Cornelius Shepherd of Los Angeles, California, was also sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $654,000 to seven victims. Acting as a courier on behalf of the fraud scheme, Shepard pleaded guilty to his one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on August 13, 2021.