{"id":545850,"date":"2026-03-19T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:42:12","slug":"brampton-man-wanted-in-alleged-trucking-and-transportation-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545850\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton man wanted in alleged trucking and transportation fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Brampton man is wanted after he allegedly tricked a Durham Region investor into transferring $200,000 to him to fund a fraudulent trucking and transportation business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Durham Regional Police said they launched an investigation into the accused in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man allegedly told the investor that he would receive a $1 million banking business loan and claimed that he had multiple contracts in place for transportation services with multiple businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect convinced the victim to partner in the business and transfer over $200,000 in funds to assist with business start up costs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-wanted-for-trucking-and-transportation-business-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-wanted-for-trucking-and-transportation-business-fraud\/\">police allege in a news release on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The investigation has since determined the bank contacts and business contracts were all fraudulent, and no business loan was issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect has been identified as 35-year-old Sahil Thakur. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is wanted for obtaining funds by false pretences over $5,000, possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and fraud over $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact police at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5352 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brampton man is wanted after he allegedly tricked a Durham Region investor into transferring $200,000 to him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-545850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545850","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=545850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}