Cop turned lawyer helped scammers launder $1.7M stolen from Surrey, BC

It heard that Ganesh Balaganthan, who spent 14 years in the Toronto Police Service before travelling to England to study law, failed to properly check out his first client, who hired him to draft a joint venture agreement aimed at laundering part of a $2.1 million haul that had been scammed from the City of Surrey, B.C.