An Ontario business owner is facing a steep $36.9 million penalty after the Canada Border Services Agency says he failed to declare hundreds of used vehicles exported from Canada.

According to a CBSA release on Monday, the agency’s criminal investigations section in Halifax launched an investigation in 2021 to further examine an Ontario exporter believed to be shipping a large number of used vehicles from Canada to West Africa without completing the required export declarations.

Through its investigation, two search warrants were executed by CBSA in London, Ont., in July 2023 that resulted in the seizure of business and financial records, vehicle titles, bills of sales, bankers boxes of documents, computers, cellphones and SIM cards.

Two years later, in August 2025, the CBSA served

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