Alan Baggett
2013-11-05 11:41:17 UTC
Canada Revenue Agency staff suspended after mobster receives $381K cheque: CRA SOTW
By Marian Scott, THE GAZETTEOctober 31, 2013
MONTREAL — The Canada Revenue Agency suspended two employees without pay Thursday in connection with an ongoing police investigation into why the CRA mistakenly issued late crime boss Nicolo Rizzuto a $400,000 cheque six years ago.
The suspensions came in the wake of an RCMP probe into why the agency sent a $381,737 refund to the Mafia figure in September 2007. Rizzuto, who owed the government $1.5 million in back taxes, was in prison at the time.
Rizzuto was assassinated at age 86 in his Cartierville home on Nov. 10, 2010.
In a statement, federal revenue minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay said she has instructed the agency to co-operate fully with the RCMP investigation.
“Our government is committed to cracking down on any misconduct by officials and cleaning up the situation at CRA,” Findlay said in a statement.
Since 2010, the agency has fired eight employees, six of whom have been charged with corruption.
In September, CRA commissioner Andrew Treusch said the agency had launched an internal investigation into the Rizzuto cheque.
The cheque was never cashed because Jean-Pierre Paquette, a veteran investigator with the CRA, noticed the payment had been made and went to Rizzuto’s home to retrieve it. In October, the federal government defended its decision to eliminate a special CRA unit that investigated organized crime. The Special Enforcement Unit, set up in the 1980s, was involved several high-profile raids and dozens of arrests over the years.
Findlay has also defended the government’s decision to give the CRA $8 million in new funding last year to crack down on charities. So far, only one charity, Physicians for Global Survival, has seen its charitable status revoked as a result of the charity probe, for spending more than 10 per cent of its budget on political activities.
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By Marian Scott, THE GAZETTEOctober 31, 2013
MONTREAL — The Canada Revenue Agency suspended two employees without pay Thursday in connection with an ongoing police investigation into why the CRA mistakenly issued late crime boss Nicolo Rizzuto a $400,000 cheque six years ago.
The suspensions came in the wake of an RCMP probe into why the agency sent a $381,737 refund to the Mafia figure in September 2007. Rizzuto, who owed the government $1.5 million in back taxes, was in prison at the time.
Rizzuto was assassinated at age 86 in his Cartierville home on Nov. 10, 2010.
In a statement, federal revenue minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay said she has instructed the agency to co-operate fully with the RCMP investigation.
“Our government is committed to cracking down on any misconduct by officials and cleaning up the situation at CRA,” Findlay said in a statement.
Since 2010, the agency has fired eight employees, six of whom have been charged with corruption.
In September, CRA commissioner Andrew Treusch said the agency had launched an internal investigation into the Rizzuto cheque.
The cheque was never cashed because Jean-Pierre Paquette, a veteran investigator with the CRA, noticed the payment had been made and went to Rizzuto’s home to retrieve it. In October, the federal government defended its decision to eliminate a special CRA unit that investigated organized crime. The Special Enforcement Unit, set up in the 1980s, was involved several high-profile raids and dozens of arrests over the years.
Findlay has also defended the government’s decision to give the CRA $8 million in new funding last year to crack down on charities. So far, only one charity, Physicians for Global Survival, has seen its charitable status revoked as a result of the charity probe, for spending more than 10 per cent of its budget on political activities.
***@montrealgazette.com
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
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Miss a Tax Tale Miss a lot!
Visit the CRA SOTW Library at http://canada.revenue.agency.angelfire.com
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