 | Victor Vargotskii, 59, was sentenced to 30 months while Eric Bradette, 39, pulled 15 months. They pleaded guilty to trafficking in money obtained by crime. They are mid-level players in Project Collector, an RCMP operation that dismantled a sophisticated money laundering ring in Toronto. The group made cash available to cocaine suppliers in Mexico and Colombia. Often their elaborate global swap schemes never had cash leaving the country. |
The recyclers, among other things, faked the production of nine million boxes of chicken wings in order to fabricate false invoices and justify transfers of millions. |
The value of the assets seized or restrained is more than $32m. |
 | The judge wasn't impressed that Bradette is related to a former member of the Hells Angels. No connection could be made between the $275k seized and the club. Leaders of the ring, Nader Gramian-Nik, 56 and Mohamad Jaber, 51 have yet to be sentenced. |
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