Brampton man facing fraud charge, 2 lawsuits as alleged real estate deposit scam collapses [Video]

A Brampton man has been charged with fraud and is facing two lawsuits related to an alleged pre-construction home deposit scam worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Moiz Kunwar, 28, allegedly took real estate deposits from at least nine homebuyers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) for pre-construction houses he didn’t have the right to sell and which were being built by unrelated, legitimate developers. 

Janet Campbell is one of them. The Brampton grandmother and six others are collectively suing Kunwar to get back nearly $170,000 they paid him for deposits on pre-construction homes they purchased but never received.

“This hurt me a lot because I believed him, and I trusted him to have a home, and it didn’t happen,” said Campbell.  “He took me to this site to see the home, but it wasn’t my home.”

After many delays, Campbell says Kunwar assured her the nearly $1-million five-bedroom Brampton …