Poonai is Chief's lawyer

Quote "Superior Court in Milton back on April 26, 2007 ordered Vishnu “Joey” Poonai to pay CND$59,000 in restitution to several banks and sentenced him to 3.5 years imprisonment. He was then disbarred by the Upper Law Society of Upper Canada." unquote

I do hope that someone is keeping a tab on the PPP/C corruptions and crookedness so that they can faced the book at a later stage and then be given Islamic Justice hmmm stoned to death.

In 2007 this was published here as well as in Guyana. All those inepts in Guyana have to  do is Google.

http://www.lawtimesnews.com/20...rauds-worth-millions

A Brampton, Ont., lawyer convicted of defrauding four financial institutions of
almost $3 million has been disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada and
sentenced to  3.5 years in jail.

Vishnu Rajendra
(Joey) Poonai was sentenced April 26 in Superior Court in Milton. The court also
orded him to pay more than $59,000 in restitution to three different
banks.
He was ordered “immediately disbarred” by a hearing panel earlier this
month.

In a 99-page agreed statement of facts, former real estate lawyer
Poonai admitted he engaged in professional misconduct and that the appropriate
penalty was immediate disbarment. The law society says since February, Poonai
has co-operated fully to bring the matter to a timely conclusion. As of April
11, Poonai can no longer practise law in the province.

The law society
alleged that Poonai was involved in 13 counts of professional misconduct,
including acting as the solicitor in 49 mortgage transactions between 1997 and
2003 where he knowingly assisted in a scheme to obtain mortgage funds from
mortgagees under false pretences, in what the court called a “flip
fraud.”
The total aggregate loss to the financial institutions (the rest was
covered by insurance) was $2,853,403, according to the ruling from Poonai’s
criminal trial.

Poonai, who was arrested in October 2003, had pleaded not
guilty to the initial set of charges during his trial, and in fact, at one
point, claimed the Law Society of Upper Canada had given him permission to do
the flips, a claim Justice John Murray found “ridiculous.”

The frauds
occured when a property wass purchased around its market value, conveyed
immediately afterwards for a falsely inflated, significantly higher price to a
second buyer who was not a bona fide buyer, and mortgage funds are advanced
based on the higher second selling price. The difference between the funds
needed to close the first deal and the mortgage for the second deal is the
profit for the fraudsters, with the mortgage then falling into
default.

In these lucrative flips, Poonai or another lawyer “acting in
concert with him” would act for all the parties including the lending
institution without fully apprising the lender of the circumstances of the
transaction.
In one of the transactions, the property saw a 2,123-per-cent
increase in price over the two-week period between the first agreement and
second agreement, resulting in a $275,999 profit. Another property increased by
1,508 per cent over four days.

The agreed statement notes Poonai “admits
that the transactions were dishonest and fraudulent and that he was aware of
their dishonest and fraudulent nature.”
In October 2003, Poonai was also
charged with five counts of fraud over $5,000 relating to 12 real estate
transactions between April 2002 and May 2003. The court lists the Royal Bank of
Canada, the Bank of Montreal, CIBC Mortgages Inc., and Scotia Mortgage Corp., as
being defrauded in the schemes.

While the misconduct proceeding against
him were initiated in 2003, in 2004 Poonai agreed to an interim suspension in
exchange for an adjournment sine die of the law society proceeding, pending the
outcome of the criminal trial.

He was found guilty on Dec. 22, 2006 of
four counts of fraud over $5,000 and pleaded guilty to an additional count of
fraud over $5,000 on March 30.

In December, the LSUC hearing panel found
Poonai guilty of professional misconduct for providing legal services while
suspended and destroying client property. At that point, he was ordered
suspended for two years. Ten days later, he was convicted of four counts of
criminal fraud in the Ontario Superior Court, with Justice John Murray
concluding: “Mr. Poonai acted in a manner that reasonable, decent persons would
consider dishonest and unscrupulous.”

In the April 11 discipline
decision, hearing panel chairman Gerald Swaye said Poonai “decided in his career
practising as a lawyer to enter into various fraudulent schemes to take money
that did not belong to him.
“In our view, the conduct of this member is
horrendous. In our view, he has taken advantage and used his position of being a
lawyer to get extra advantages that ordinary members of the public are not
entitled to.

The society and lawyers in general should be absolutely
ashamed this type of conduct was allowed to continue, and it should also be
noted that other members of the society were suckered in by him and helped him
with his fraudulent schemes,” said Swaye.

Two other lawyers - Pretam Kaur
Purewal and Patience Boatemaa Whyte - were also involved in the frauds. They
“knowingly assisted in or encouraged dishonesty, fraud, crime, and/or illegal
conduct or to have become the dupe of clients who were engaged in dishonesty,
fraud, crime, and/or illegal conduct, with respect to several
properties.”

Whyte was given permission to resign in January and Purewal
was disbarred March 19.
Swaye said in 12 years as a bencher, he doesn’t
recall ever seeing such a large agreed statement of facts as the one in this
case.

A former Brampton real estate lawyer was sent to prison for 3 1/2 years today for his role in a multi-million mortgage fraud.

Vishnu (Joey) Rajendra Poonai, 56, was also ordered to pay more than $59,000 in restitution to three different banks.

Justice John Murray told a Milton court that it was a "sad day" for the accused and his family, who still support him despite his fall from grace.

"His activity was not a momentary lapse by an otherwise law-abiding citizen," Justice Murray said. "It involved planning, premeditation and sophistication.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/20...ailed_for_fraud.html

He is not only  a lawyer but my buddy friend back in the days.

We have not spoken since his return to Guyana but plan on meeting him on my next visit to GUYANA.

This has nothing to do with our friendship but I see no reason why he should not be allowed to practice in Guyana. He was admitted in the late 70's and never did anything wrong there.

The man should be allowed to make a living.

and you want to be a minister in guyana

 President!!!

This is not a case that he is appointed for a Government job this is the man's private practice.

Chief he was crooked in Guyana before he went to Canada you see i know him well also i knew his father (Black)  

But why should he choose a criminal one to make a living?

He should be allowed to make a living,,,not as a lawyer. Then again, if we talkin the PPP/C here well shit, he'll soon be Chief Justice tarass.

CHIEF FRIEND as chief justice man running like a rass

I can't speak for him but at his sentencing he did apologize and took responsibility for his actions. He served time in jail  so hopefully he is a changed person.

Bro I am not aware of any wrong doings whilst he was in Guyana other than the man just like me, had loved our "girl friends".

a criminal went to guyana and change

Don't be so optimistic.

I think lawyers are like accountants. When the go crooked no one wants them after that. Further, there is an idealistic notion in the commonwealth that once one breaks an oath in one jurisdiction it applies everywhere. It is up to the Bar to address this. I do not think the PPP has authority here but then they seem to intrude everywhere.

BTW, I also know this fellow well.

I happen to know the Poonai clan.