Canada - Criminal Charges Laid in a Competition Bureau Telemarketing Case

Ottawa, September 22, 2011 - The Competition Bureau announced today that criminal charges have been laid against five individuals and four Montreal-based companies, involved in the Bureau's IT Data Direct case, a complex fraudulent telemarketing operation that generated over $172 million in gross sales. The telemarketing operatiom, based in Montreal, primarily targeted businesses in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Puerto Rico and Panama.

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