MORTGAGE FRAUDSTER MAY GET 12 YEARS IN JAIL!

Thursday Aug 18th, 2022

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Crown Attorney ,asked for a sentence of 10 to 12 years ,for a Calgary man who bilked clients out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme.

Arnold Breitkreutz, 74, was convicted on June 29 of fraud over $5,000 for what the Crown described as a multimillion-dollar scheme in which investors believed they were putting money into safe first mortgages.

Money from his company, Base Financial, was instead loaned to an energy industry promoter and used in a risky oil play in Texas that was secured against oil-and-gas leases and equipment.

“The Crown said  Breitkreutz was held in “high regard” by many clients after successfully running a mortgage-broker business for years.

Between May 1, 2014, and Sept. 30, 2015, investors provided Breitkreutz with more than $21.4 million , 107 individuals were defrauded money.

 

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