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TORONTO — On a November afternoon in 2011, Nadia Minetto waited in the parking lot of Yorkdale Shopping Centre, one of the largest malls in the country, to meet a stranger who responded to her ad on Kijiji offering an iPad for sale.

When Gabriel Fung arrived, he swapped cash for her tablet, still in its packaging. It was the start of an extraordinary relationship.

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Minetto and Fung would meet in much the same way again and again. The quantity of Minetto’s Apple products grew larger as Fung’s rolls of cash, bound with elastic bands, became thicker.

Over the next two and a half years, Fung bought 5,321 iPads and 4,942 iPhones from Minetto — up to 20 at a time — worth more than $6 million.

What Fung did with them was straightforward: he resold them, some through his electronics store in a mall north of Toronto, but most to companies in Hong Kong or to wholesalers.

How Minetto got them was more awkward to explain.