A serial fraudster was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after he posed as a relative to be hired by Desjardins and defrauded the Ministry of Culture through a bogus contract.
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Solange Grevier went to jail on Monday after playing the role of Johan Richter and Solane Greyer.
The 59-year-old woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud and using false documents in two separate cases.
First, she admitted to falsifying her husband’s aunt’s driver’s license in order to be hired by Desjardins’ employee placement partner, Agilia Solutions.
It allowed the fraudster to work as a computer consultant at Desjardins for two years, and allowed her to pay $500,000 in fees in addition to $19,000 in expenses.
Bad deal
Later, at the Ministry of Culture and Communications, Solange Crevier was hired by an IT placement agency under the name Solane Greuier.
He would use this identity from September 2014 to January 2016, the time of two contracts, one of which was false and allowed Grieve to defraud the ministry of nearly $10,000.
In both cases, an anonymous whistleblower alerted the company’s employees to being defrauded by the accused, resulting in the termination of his employment relationship and the initiation of investigations.
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According to Solange Crevier, this information came from journalists hunting her case after she was found to have stolen computers from Bombardier in 2007. The woman was also sentenced to six months in prison for defrauding VIA Rail.
Based on this treatment, the accused testified to justify his crimes that “Solange Grevier had to disappear”.
Technique and advance planning
In her ruling, Judge Annie Trudel considered that the woman’s liability was complete and that the accumulation of her files “justifies the massive media coverage” she was given.
The judge also rejected a defense suggestion of a community sentence as “grossly inadequate”.
According to Judge Trudel, the 18-month prison sentence imposed was justified by the “high moral guilt” and the “full responsibility” of the accused.
“Particularly because of the scale of the fraudulent acts, their duration, sophistication and premeditated planning, the court accepts the words of the probation officer declaring that Ms. Grevier has abandoned her fraudulent scheme. Her behavior calls into question the impact she has had on the people she defrauded,” explained the magistrate.
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