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The chair of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce is among 12 individuals named in a U.S. government investigation into “organized money laundering.”
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control report alleges that Marie Boivin, chair of the board and director for Accu-Rate Corporation, based in Canada, is among 12 individuals it believes serve as executives or directors with a payments organization and money processing business known as PacNet, which the treasury office claims, “has a lengthy history of money laundering by knowingly processing payments on behalf of a wide range of mail fraud schemes that target victims in the United States and throughout the world.”
According to the U.S. investigation, PacNet operates in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and has subsidiaries or affiliates in 15 other countries. The report claims that the organization is the third-party payment processor of choice in a wide range of mail fraud schemes.
It claims that consumers are receiving tens of thousands of fraudulent phishing scam emails, including promises of lottery winnings or inheritance schemes, as well as other mail fraud solicitations. The Treasury Office says the fraudulent offers contain “misrepresentations designed to victimize the elderly or otherwise vulnerable individuals.” It also claims that PacNet has a 20-year history of knowingly processing payments relating to these fraudulent solicitation schemes, which result in the loss of millions of dollars to U.S. consumers.
In a typical scenario, scammers email fraudulent solicitations to potential victims and then arrange to have payment in either cheque or cash sent directly or through a partner company to a PacNet processing operation.
The victims’ money is then made available to the email scammers through wire transfers from the PacNet holding account. The payment processor, which is alleged to be PacNet, takes a processing fee. By having PacNet as a middleman between scammers and the victim, the U.S. government alleges the organization is obscuring the link to the scammers. This process aims to minimize the chance that financial institutions will detect the scammers and determine their activity to be suspicious.
“PacNet has knowingly facilitated the fraudulent activities of its customers for many years, and today’s designations are aimed at shielding Americans and the nation’s financial system from the large-scale, illicit money flows that are generated by these scams against vulnerable individuals,” said John Smith, acting director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in a statement. “Treasury will continue to use its authorities to respond to the evolving nature of transnational organized crime.”
The government department believes that as many as 12 individuals who serve as executives or directors with PacNet-linked companies may have provided been involved in PacNets alleged money laundering initiatives.
Boivin, who was among those named in the report, was not immediately available for comment.
None of the allegations made in the Treasury report have been proven in court.
However, as a result of the investigation, Boivin and the others named in the report now find that any property or ownership they may have had in property, within any U.S. jurisdiction are now blocked. U.S. citizens are also now prohibited from engaging in transactions with them, according to a statement from the department.
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The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control report alleges that Marie Boivin, chair of the board and director for Accu-Rate Corporation, based in Canada, is among 12 individuals it believes serve as executives or directors with a payments organization and money processing business known as PacNet, which the treasury office claims, “has a lengthy history of money laundering by knowingly processing payments on behalf of a wide range of mail fraud schemes that target victims in the United States and throughout the world.”
According to the U.S. investigation, PacNet operates in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and has subsidiaries or affiliates in 15 other countries. The report claims that the organization is the third-party payment processor of choice in a wide range of mail fraud schemes.
It claims that consumers are receiving tens of thousands of fraudulent phishing scam emails, including promises of lottery winnings or inheritance schemes, as well as other mail fraud solicitations. The Treasury Office says the fraudulent offers contain “misrepresentations designed to victimize the elderly or otherwise vulnerable individuals.” It also claims that PacNet has a 20-year history of knowingly processing payments relating to these fraudulent solicitation schemes, which result in the loss of millions of dollars to U.S. consumers.
In a typical scenario, scammers email fraudulent solicitations to potential victims and then arrange to have payment in either cheque or cash sent directly or through a partner company to a PacNet processing operation.
The victims’ money is then made available to the email scammers through wire transfers from the PacNet holding account. The payment processor, which is alleged to be PacNet, takes a processing fee. By having PacNet as a middleman between scammers and the victim, the U.S. government alleges the organization is obscuring the link to the scammers. This process aims to minimize the chance that financial institutions will detect the scammers and determine their activity to be suspicious.
“PacNet has knowingly facilitated the fraudulent activities of its customers for many years, and today’s designations are aimed at shielding Americans and the nation’s financial system from the large-scale, illicit money flows that are generated by these scams against vulnerable individuals,” said John Smith, acting director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in a statement. “Treasury will continue to use its authorities to respond to the evolving nature of transnational organized crime.”
The government department believes that as many as 12 individuals who serve as executives or directors with PacNet-linked companies may have provided been involved in PacNets alleged money laundering initiatives.
Boivin, who was among those named in the report, was not immediately available for comment.
None of the allegations made in the Treasury report have been proven in court.
However, as a result of the investigation, Boivin and the others named in the report now find that any property or ownership they may have had in property, within any U.S. jurisdiction are now blocked. U.S. citizens are also now prohibited from engaging in transactions with them, according to a statement from the department.
More to come.
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