{"id":19568,"date":"2014-07-19T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19568"},"modified":"2014-07-22T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:35:03","slug":"ex-citizenship-and-immigration-canada-employee-charged-in-alleged-passport-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/19\/ex-citizenship-and-immigration-canada-employee-charged-in-alleged-passport-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Citizenship and Immigration Canada employee charged in alleged passport fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_148028840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19569\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_148028840.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_148028840\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_148028840.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_148028840-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014A former Citizenship and Immigration Canada employee has been charged with breach of trust after she allegedly helped 22 people fraudulently obtain Canadian passports, the RCMP said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Aline Zeitoune, 50, of Toronto worked for Passport Canada, a division of CIC.<\/p>\n<p>Zeitoune, who was arrested Thursday, also faces 96 additional charges, the Mounties said.<br \/>\nFour of the 22 people have also been charged with passport offences.<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP said the investigation began in March 2013, when the force was contacted by CIC investigators who suspected one of their employees of processing fraudulent applications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We suspect the accused may have been involved in the scheme for financial gain,&#8221; said Sgt. Richard Rollings, spokesman for the RCMP in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, this is a very much an ongoing investigation and the exact motivation behind the scheme is still to be determined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rollings said he was not in a position to disclose whether or not the remaining 18 people are in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working with our law enforcement partners in Canada and internationally to locate and arrest any other people associated to this crime,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The breach of trust charge alone can bring a jail term of up to five years, Rollings said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014A former Citizenship and Immigration Canada employee has been charged with breach of trust after she allegedly helped 22 people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}