Ontario woman convicted of immigration fraud in Edmonton [Video]

An Ontario woman working in Edmonton has been convicted of defrauding newcomers of tens of thousands of dollars.

Maneet ‘Mani’ Malhotra, the entrepreneur behind NAMI Immigration Inc., has to pay $148,000 in victim restitution and also received an 18-month conditional sentence, including six months of house arrest.

Canada Border Services Agency began investigating her in 2019 after a referral from Alberta’s Temporary Foreign Worker Advisory Office.

CBSA found Malhotra was paid $30,000 by one client and $45,000 by another to arrange work in Alberta.

“Instead of receiving jobs, they were forced into a scheme where they were required to pay for fraudulent pay stubs,” CBSA said in a news release Monday.