Senior faces charges in Coquitlam Little League fraud investigation
Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 May, 2023 10:19 AM
A former treasurer of the Coquitlam Little League has been charged with fraud and theft after 150-thousand-dollars went missing from the league's bank account.
Mounties say the 65-year-old was charged after an investigation that lasted two-and-a-half years.
Police say the woman was treasurer for the baseball club from September 2014 to August 2020.
She has been released pending her next court appearance.
They say investigators have not uncovered any links to other missing person's cases and have been unable to determine the identity of the body, which was found east of Cloverdale on February 23rd.
The City of Langford revoked the occupancy permit for the 11 storey, 90 unit, RidgeView Place on Monday after an independent engineer found structural safety issues and recommended evacuation.
The group chose the lump sum over the other prize option of one-thousand-dollars a day for life. They say they plan to use the winnings to purchase new cars, plan dream vacations and complete home renovations, as well as host a lunch for the entire company.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is slated to take a tour of the Burnaby fuel cell company Cellcentric before going to Vancouver for a roundtable discussion with German and Canadian business representatives.
The incident happened in April 2020 when provincial health regulations mandated that shoppers stay at least six feet apart from one another, and that grocery stores put a limit on how many customers were inside at a time.
The West Kelowna R-C-M-P say the woman was walking in a parking lot when she was struck by a pickup truck just after 11 a-m. Mounties say the driver remained on scene and is co-operating with police.