A former Toronto cop who resigned at 40 to study law “was willfully blind to fraudulent activity” when he helped scammers trying to launder $1.7 million, according to a decision from Ontario’s law society tribunal.

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.

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“We conclude that the respondent was inexperienced and naive. He was also dealing with tragically difficult circumstances in his personal life that had some effect on his judgement,” tribunal chair Paul Aterman wrote in a recent decision fro

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