: Investigators said she and her accomplices had arranged for Canadian citizens to marry and sponsor Chinese foreign nationals, according to CTV. The woman and her accomplices had recruited sponsors, arranged weddings, and completed applications and documents for fees of between $30,000 and $35,000, CBSA said, noting that the fake marriages were set up between 2005 and 2012. "Through investigative work it was determined that these marriages were not genuine and the couples never intended to live together," CBSA Regional Director General Goran Vragovic said in the statement. The woman was charged with 21 counts of counselling misrepresentation over a seven-year period, the Canadian Border Services Agency said in a statement on Friday. North York resident Wei Ren, who also went by Christine Ren and Christine Molson, appeared in court in December and pleaded guilty to five of the 21 counts, CBSA said. As a result, Ren was sentenced to two years less one day for counselling misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. "Under the IRPA it is an offence for individuals to counsel, aid or abet others to commit misrepresentation such as marriage fraud," the statement said. "We encourage the public to continue reporting these types of immigration-related offences to our Border Watch Toll Free Line 1-888-502-9060." She formally admitted to the allegations in relation to the remaining 16 counts, the statement said.
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