2024-03-06 20:30:00
An unscrupulous fraudster who “bleed dry” vulnerable seniors for nearly $900,000 has already been released from the penitentiary, even though he has only served half of his 7 1/2 year incarceration sentence and He didn’t make too much effort to get back on the right path.
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“Transparency and honesty are not your greatest assets. Little progress has been made, you have not committed to your rehabilitation plan,” the Parole Board of Canada recently commented [CLCC] regarding Richard Chandroo.
Just followingward, however, the organization concluded that despite his “low potential for social reintegration,” he deserved to be released in order to live in a halfway house for the coming months.
Thus, the 49-year-old fraudster will have spent only three and a half years behind bars for his frauds which left seniors penniless. Specializing in inheritance fraud, he mixed real and false documents to give his prey confidence, sometimes going so far as to impersonate other people in order to increase his credibility.
” Ready for everything “
This allowed him to convince his victims to lend him money to enable him to receive an inheritance, but obviously, his promises of repayment were never honored.
In total, it left three victims, all in their eighties, who lost practically all their savings.
“He is a cunning manipulator ready to do anything to bleed his victims dry,” said judge Salvatore Mascia when sentencing the fraudster in the fall of 2020.
Except that if the penitentiary is intended to rehabilitate criminals, the challenge seems great in the case of Chandroo, who continued his little manipulation games.
And even when he was granted semi-release last November, he was quickly arrested for stealing winter tires from a garage. He was then in a car, even though driving was prohibited. In this case, the Crown is still evaluating whether he should be charged.
“You insist that it was not a theft, and that you wanted to pursue the mechanic who you believe is wrongly accusing you,” noted the CLCC.
Free anyway
The nine-page decision then notes Chandroo’s little progress in detention, the high risk of recidivism according to his parole officer, his selfishness and his lack of empathy.
Except that in all his setbacks, Chandroo would not have committed violent physical actions. And since this is the criterion for obtaining parole, the fraudster was still able to leave the austerity of the penitentiary. However, he will have to go and live in a halfway house, while avoiding contact with his victims. He will also have to provide all his financial information to the authorities and look for a job.
Chandroo must always repay his victims, otherwise he will have to be incarcerated for two years.
And once he pays his debt to society, he should be deported since he is not a Canadian citizen.
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