FORMER Conservative MP Wajid Khan with then Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Archive photo.
SOME people protest the arrest of the two men. Courtesy photo.
A co-accused in a fraud case involving a former Mississauga-Streetsville Conservative MP has been found guilty of three counts of fraud.
Nadeem Imtiaz Ahmed, 51, and former MP Wajid Ali Khan, 71, were arrested by the RCMP in March 2018 in what was described as a ‘$1.1 million international investment fraud.’
The Mississauga men were accused in Project Alcazar of borrowing large sums of money from ‘personal contacts’ in Canada, according to an RCMP release.
Ahmed was found guilty of three charges under the Criminal Code, following a three-year investigation into foreign real estate investment fraud.
The Ontario Supreme Court of Justice in a decision on April 21 found Ahmed guilty of two counts of fraud and one count of uttering a forged document.
He is slated to return to court on June 4 to set a date for sentencing.
Khan faces seven charges, including three counts of fraud, three counts of false pretense and one of uttering a forged document.
His case is still before the courts.
The RCMP National Division Sensitive and International Investigative Section received complaints in January 2015 and began a probe. The Section focuses on “criminal activity that poses a threat to Canada’s government institutions, public officials, the integrity of the Crown, or that imperils Canada’s political, economic and social integrity,” according to the RCMP.
Khan made headlines in 2007 when he left the Liberal Party and crossed the floor to join the Conservatives, then left politics for good in 2009. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 2004 and again in 2006 as a Liberal.
He crossed the floor so he could continue acting as a special adviser to then-prime minister Stephen Harper on the Middle East and Central Asia.
Khan was at one time a prominent voice in the GTA’s Pakistani and Muslim communities. He was one of the first MPs of Muslim descent elected to the House.
Khan served as an officer and a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force from 1966 to 1973. He took part in the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 as a Shenyang J-6 fighter pilot.
He moved to Canada in 1974.