Gill sisters: Charges dropped after mother pleads guilty in Inuit identity fraud case [Video]

IQALUIT, Nunavut –

A Toronto woman pleaded guilty Friday in an Inuit identity fraud case as charges against her twin daughters were dropped.

Karima Manji, 59, and her 25-year-old daughters, Amira and Nadya Gill, had faced charges of fraud over $5,000.

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The three women appeared virtually from Ontario at a court hearing in Iqaluit, and Manji pleaded guilty. She is to be sentenced in June.

“She wanted to take responsibility for this,” Manji’s lawyer, John Scott Cowan, said in an interview.

Crown prosecutor Sarah White said in an email that Manji pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over $5,000, and the charges against the woman’s daughters were withdrawn.

Nunavut RCMP charged the three women in September, after receiving a complaint that they used Inuit status to defraud two organizations.

An agreed statement of facts entered into court …