The accused, a co-owner of a temporary employment agency, was charged with fraud over $5000, forgery, and using forged documents.
The Crown alleged that the accused defrauded the company by adding phantom former employees to the payroll draft, intercepting their cash pay envelopes, and forging their signatures on cash receipts.
The accused was also charged with forging letters from his business partner to provide to his conditional sentence supervisor to facilitate personal activities.
The court rejected the admission of similar fact evidence regarding a prior fraud conviction.
Applying the W.D. test, the court rejected the accused's testimony as incredible and accepted the evidence of the business partner and former employees.
The court found the accused guilty on all counts, concluding the Crown proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused perpetrated the fraud and forged the documents.
