Sask. immigration employee accused of taking bribes, laundering proceeds of fraud

Jeremy Warren · CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 6:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago

An worker with the Saskatchewan migrant nominee program is accused of utilizing his occupation to enrich himself and launder the proceeds of fiscal fraud, RCMP say.

Saskatoon nonmigratory Tony Dou is charged with respective fiscal crimes successful transportation with his full-time employment with the provincial government's nominee program, which connects overseas workers with section businesses looking to fill jobs. 

The RCMP's federal superior and organized transgression portion charged Dou connected April 29 and arrested him connected May 5.

An RCMP quality merchandise said from April 2015 to July 2022, Dou participated successful fraud, theft and wealth laundering portion helium was a authorities employee.

Dou allegedly took much than $650,000 from nominee programme participants. RCMP did not clarify whether that includes some overseas workers and Saskatchewan businesses.

RCMP besides allege helium altered documents, accessed authorities databases without authorization, and laundered the proceeds of transgression activity.

"Breach of spot investigations allege violations of assurance and integrity, which are cardinal pillars of nationalist office," Saskatchewan RCMP Supt. Andrew Farquhar said successful a statement.

 Dou is charged with:

• Fraud implicit $5,000.
• Money laundering.
• Accepting a payment arsenic a authorities official.
• Breach of spot by a nationalist officer.
• Possession of spot obtained by transgression implicit $5,000.

He's acceptable to look successful Saskatoon provincial tribunal connected May 20.

The state precocious rebooted its nominee programme with stricter criteria aft a five-week intermission successful applications that started erstwhile Ottawa slashed the fig of disposable spots for overseas workers successful the province.

Under the Saskatchewan program, employers are allowed to prosecute overseas nationals if they're capable to beryllium they can't find anyone other successful the state to capable a position.

Once a concern is qualified, they are provided with a occupation support signifier allowing them to prosecute a overseas nationalist nether the program.

That idiosyncratic indispensable past work full clip for that leader for at slightest six months to qualify for the programme and stay in the country.

More than 90 per cent of the province's economical migration happens done the Saskatchewan migrant nominee program, according to the Ministry of Immigration and Career Training.