A complex and intricate insurance fraud scheme continues to be investigated by police north of Toronto, who claim that 65 people were involved in staging fake car collisions and filing false insurance claims worth more than $5 million.
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Investigators allege that the suspects would purchase a crashed vehicle and, with the help of numerous accomplices, stage crash scenes and report the incidents to police.
Police allege the auto body shops and massage clinics where those insurance claims were supposedly processed participated in the fraud and remain under investigation.
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York police launched Project Sideswipe in March, after the Insurance Bureau of Canada became suspicious of the incidents. Sixty-five drivers and passengers involved in nine separate collisions have been investigated as part of Project Sideswipe.
The staged collisions all occurred in an area north of Highway 407 in the area of Weston Road between July 2, 2009, and March 16, 2010 in an area bordered by Major Mackenzie Drive to the north, Highway 7 to the south, and Langstaff Road and Dufferin Street to the west and east.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for:
- Shehryar Ahmad, 32, of Toronto
- Mohamed Ali Hussien, 29 of Toronto
- Christopher Savid Barco, 28, of Brampton
- Kiril Kovtunenko, 26, of Richmond Hill
- Lystra Modeste, 29, of Toronto
- Patrick Muir, 27, or Toronto
- Evadne Nelson-Thomas, 53, of Brampton
- Abdi N Yusuf, 46, of Hamilton
- Asif Khan, 56, of Brampton
- Huma Baig, 46, of Mississauga
- Kelly Smith, 33, of Toronto
- Tiana Beckford, 21, of Brampton
- Robin Bryan, 54, of Toronto
- Fouzia Hassan, 44, of Toronto
- Adnan Ahmed, 19, of Toronto
- Lillian Pollard, 70, of Brampton
- Jeremiah Lowe, 22, of Toronto
- Nasra Nur, 26, of Toronto
- Marie Rolands Berry, 65, of Ajax
- Raha Kheyre, 29, of Toronto.
