Burnaby vehicle mechanic posed as UBC dental scholar to get $350K line of credit rating: Crown
Alberto Cuellar Ojeda, 30, introduced the Royal Financial institution of Canada with a forged letter from UBC so he could get access to a $350,000 line of credit readily available to medical and dental college students, according to info introduced through his sentencing hearing Wednesday.
A Burnaby auto mechanic who pretended to be a UBC dentistry college student to safe a $350,000 scholar line of credit score has been handed an eight-month conditional sentence with home arrest and an order to spend back practically $30,000.
On Nov. 6, 2019, Alberto Cuellar Ojeda, 30, walked into a Royal Bank in Burnaby and used for a $350,000 student line of credit history available to students in health care and dental school.
To guidance his application, he presented what looked like a letter from an associate vice-president at UBC stating he was enrolled in the doctorate dental medication program.
“This letter was a cast document. Mr. Cuellar Ojeda was not and never ever had been enrolled in that application,” Crown prosecutor Christina Galbraith told a Vancouver provincial courtroom judge during Cuellar Ojeda’s sentencing listening to Wednesday.
Nonetheless, Galbraith reported Cuellar Ojeda acquired the line of credit and withdrew $30,000 amongst Nov. 28, 2019 and Feb. 3, 2020.
It took virtually three yrs for the regulation to catch up with him, but Cuellar Ojeda was billed in August 2023 with a person depend of fraud and a person count of applying a solid doc.
He pleaded responsible Wednesday to making use of the cast letter. The fraud demand was stayed.
In a joint sentencing submission, Galbraith and defence lawyer Joel Whysall referred to as for an eight-month conditional sentence with home arrest, 10 hours of neighborhood get the job done and an get to pay out RBC back again $29,167.09.
(Some of the dollars experienced currently been repaid.)
B.C. provincial court docket Choose Nancy Adams imposed the proposed sentence.
She mentioned forged files are “generally distasteful” and Cuellar Ojeda had paid out again only a portion of the cash he withdrew.
“You should not get the benefit of that money from the solid letter that you passed,” Adams claimed.
As factors in his favour, having said that, Adams noted Cuellar Ojeda experienced no legal history, he had pleaded guilty and he was having accountability for his steps.
Cuellar Ojeda was born in raised in Mexico but became a long-lasting resident of Canada in 2019, in accordance to Whysall.
His felony conviction will make him inadmissible to Canada, Whysall stated, and he will have to apply to remain on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
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