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The website for telecommunications service provider, 5G Global Inc., showed an address in the heart of downtown Ottawa.

In reality, it was just a “virtual” office.

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Investigators with the Canada Revenue Agency knew something was really fishy when they looked at the pictured staff members. One smiling woman holding glasses up to her chin was listed as “Natalie Roberts, General Director,” while a silver-haired man was identified as “Allen Bailey, Manager.”

However, the same people were pictured on the website of a different company under the names “Jessica Cox, Lawyer” and “Dominic Simmonnet, Director.”

Fake websites were just one part of a massive international scheme to try to dupe the Canadian government into paying $52 million in sales tax refunds or rebates through fraudulent claims, court records obtained by the National Post show.

In the end, 11 foreign nationals based in Britain managed to squeeze $4.7 million out of federal coffers over five years before auditors and investigators caught on, the records state. The proceeds were put into Canadian banks, then transferred to offshore accounts or used in real estate transactions.