Toronto lawyer linked to mortgage fraud fails to get suspension lifted

Shahryar Mazaheri represented real estate broker Samira Yousefi, who in 2022 helped Alisa Pogorelovsky and her husband, Alan Kats, borrow $1,375,000. The couple thought they were going to invest in syndicated mortgages, but Mazaheri and another lawyer, Fred Yack, were “alleged to have acted with at least constructive knowledge of the fraud,” according to a recent decision from the Law Society Tribunal, which suspended Mazaheri’s licence on an interlocutory basis in November 2024. Yack consented to an interlocutory suspension.