{"id":882787,"date":"2026-09-04T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882787\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:48:17","slug":"high-profile-vpd-officer-and-youth-charity-ceo-kal-dosanjh-charged-with-theft-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882787\/","title":{"rendered":"High-profile VPD officer and youth charity CEO Kal Dosanjh charged with theft, fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver police officer, anti-gang advocate and youth charity CEO Kal Dosanjh has been charged with theft, fraud and breach of trust offences dating back to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Dosanjh was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A charge document reveals he is facing multiple counts of fraud over $5,000, and theft over $5,000. <\/p>\n<p>According to the document sworn on Thursday, multiple charges relate to alleged fraud and stealing from investors of multiple property development projects.<\/p>\n<p>Those include the Azura, Queen&#8217;s Park and Sahara development projects.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offences occurred between Jan. 13, 2017, and Oct. 31, 2024, according to the document, with Sarabjit Singh Gill listed as a co-defendant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A bald South Asian man speaks in a car.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788508097_563_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5224586288416075\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Dosanjh is seen during an interview with CBC Radio in May 2026, speaking in his role as founder of the KidsPlay youth outreach charity. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>According to B.C. Supreme Court documents, the two men are listed as partners in multiple property development ventures, which have been the subject of multiple civil lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>The two have denied all wrongdoing in those cases.<\/p>\n<p>Dosanjh also faces two charges alleging he committed fraud over $5,000 and stole from the KidsPlay Youth Foundation, the charity that he founded in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Those alleged crimes occurred between Dec. 8, 2017, and July 25, 2025, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p>Dosanjh also faces one count of breach of trust by a public officer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Two police officers removing items from the home of VPD officer Kalwinder Dosanjh\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788508097_57_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7437759336099585\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Police were seen taking items in boxes from a home listed as Dosanjh&#8217;s residence in court documents. (CBC News)<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, plain-clothes and uniformed VPD officers were seen carrying boxes out of a home listed as Dosanjh&#8217;s residence in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Dosanjh has been a VPD employee for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, he founded the KidsPlay Youth Foundation, a charity with the stated aim of &#8220;keeping B.C. kids away from a life of crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dosanjh has made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/9.7196726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">multiple media appearances<\/a> in his role as the charity&#8217;s CEO, with the non-profit often organizing sports events in a bid to engage youth with community programs.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance Lawyers in Langley, a law firm representing Dosanjh, sent CBC News a statement saying it was &#8220;inappropriate to draw conclusions&#8221; based on the reported arrest of their client.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Dosanjh has committed no crime and is innocent of any wrongdoing,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An arrest, or a report that an arrest has occurred, is not evidence of guilt, misconduct, or criminal responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-882787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882787","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=882787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}