{"id":564644,"date":"2026-03-27T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:08:10","slug":"durham-police-vehicle-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564644\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham police vehicle fraud investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Durham police say a man who purchased a vehicle in Pickering using fraudulent documents has fled the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-flees-canada-after-fraudulently-purchasing-vehicle-in-pickering\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-flees-canada-after-fraudulently-purchasing-vehicle-in-pickering\/\">In a news release<\/a> issued Friday, police said investigators from the financial crimes unit began looking into the Feb. 2025 transaction last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s alleged that the suspect attended a Pickering dealership at that time to purchase a new Hyundai Elantra, but used fraudulent documents to get the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the suspect made no payments on the vehicle, which was exported to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect fled the country within a week of purchasing the vehicle,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ovidiu-Ionut Dumitru, 36, of Romania, is wanted for fraud over $5,000, make false statement to procure credit, and disposal of property to avoid creditors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact Det.-Const. Taylor of the financial crimes unit at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham police say a man who purchased a vehicle in Pickering using fraudulent documents has fled the country.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-564644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564644","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=564644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}