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| Goikhberg by DELF BERG |
Goikhberg, 49, who is a Ukraininain living in LaSalle, was sentenced to five years in September 2011 after being convicted of misdeeds relating to his attempt to help people, mostly from Russia the former Soviet Union and Israel immigrate to Canada.
He moved to Canada from Kiev in 1992 and worked as a translator for an immigration firm, eventually branching out in his own bizarre direction.
He would - according to court testimony - invent fake refugee stories and take welfare cheques from some of his clients, forcing some to beg in the subway, and so forth. At one point he was charged with 149 infractions.
But what irked authorities was that he was totally unrepentant and considered himself the victim of a anti-Semitic setup, once famously denouncing a judge a Hitler's grandson.
"... he attracted many victims in Canada, charged them for services not rendered, fabricated for them forged documents, identity and history justifying refugee status that he encouraged them to produce to the authorities and pocketed the benefits that they had received from the Ministry of Employment and Social Security. He also charged the victims for services not rendered and threatened two recalcitrant of abuse against their family."On August 8, Justice Guy Cournoyer ruled that "a court may not judicially create a bail review mechanism that does not exist." See the link above for more crazy, and much high-technical, details from his case.