Kutum: Justice Richard Schwarzl

Justice Richard Schwarzl: Justice Richard Schwarzl of the Ontario Court of Justice sentenced Imad Kutum on Friday to the prison term plus a $100,000 fine, which represents his illegal profits in a scheme featuring fake charitable donation receipts, according to The Star. In his judgment, Schwarzl said Kutum knowingly prepared 487 false personal income tax returns for clients and provided many of them with the bogus charity receipts and A former chartered accountant in Mississauga is off to prison for the next two years for submitting more than $3.6 million in bogus income tax deductions on behalf of clients. Kutum, who has voluntarily surrendered his professional accountancy designation, had pleaded guilty to fraud last November for making bogus tax deduction claims of $3,674,000 between 2003 and 2008, which cost Canadians $1,045,111 in unpaid taxes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.