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Musanintore has also been charged with intentionally attempting to mislead police and divert suspicion by reporting a fake collision. She was also charged with fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud. Police also criminally charged her son, Mugisha, with fraud and conspiracy and with the highway traffic offence of failing to report a collision.

Along with Aiken, Mugisha, too, has been charged with fraudulent concealment for allegedly trying to pass off an Enterprise rental vehicle as one owned by Avis. Like Aiken, Mugisha previously worked in the car rental industry, though not at Avis.

The exact motivation for the alleged scheme isn’t known, and details of the police case have not yet been made public but charges against the trio were laid by Ottawa police in early March 2018.

That same month Aiken spoke in Ottawa on a provincial tour highlighting his campaign to hold police accountable for racial profiling.

Aiken said he estimated he had been stopped by police around 50 times, starting when he was around 11 or 12.

“At first being stopped by police seemed kind of cool — kids at school thought so,” he said in an interview before his talk, “but after a while, it was no longer cool”.

Aiken said it has got to the stage where he refuses to drive at night unless he absolutely has to.

“There’s a 90 per cent chance I will be stopped if I go out,” he said.

At the time, Aiken told the audience: “I have no criminal record. I have a degree (from Carleton University). I have children and a house in the suburbs, which is policed by the Ontario Provincial Police, by the way — and I’ve never been stopped by them.”