{"id":545456,"date":"2026-03-18T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:42:09","slug":"brampton-man-wanted-after-alleged-trucking-startup-fraud-nets-200000-from-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545456\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man wanted after alleged trucking startup fraud nets $200,000 from investor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Durham Region are searching for a Brampton, Ont.-based man accused of defrauding an investor by falsely claiming to launch a trucking and transportation business.<\/p>\n

Investigators say the suspect convinced the victim to invest more than $200,000 by claiming he had secured a $1 million business loan and had multiple transportation contracts already in place.<\/p>\n

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According to the Durham Regional Police Service, those claims were fraudulent and no such loan or contracts existed.<\/p>\n

The investigation began in late January when the Financial Crimes Unit received a complaint involving funds transferred to support what was presented as a startup trucking operation.<\/p>\n

Police allege the suspect used false representations to persuade the victim to enter into a business partnership and provide startup capital.<\/p>\n

Sahil Thakur, 35, of Brampton, is wanted on charges of obtaining funds by false pretences over $5,000, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, and fraud over $5,000.<\/p>\n

Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Durham Regional Police Service Financial Crimes Unit or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n

The allegations have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Durham Region are searching for a Brampton, Ont.-based man accused of defrauding an investor by falsely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-545456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}