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Then money began to go missing. Starting in September, in a half-dozen southern Ontario home sales — from Milton to Cobourg — handled by Cartel & Bui, the law firm didn't pay off the sellers' mortgages as it was supposed to do, according to lawsuits by seven homebuyers.
It took the buyers' money, paid out the home equity to its client sellers, but held on to the rest, the buyers allege.
In another case, two of the firm's clients bought Thierry Cohen-Scali's house in Toronto and the firm held back $465,000 against potential capital gains taxes — as it was required to, because Cohen-Scali lives abroad.
But the engineer, who lives in Florida, said he obtained the necessary clearances from the Canada Revenue Agency in January, and still hasn't been reimbursed his nearly half a million dollars, as Singa Bui was legally bound to do.
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