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A 23-year-old Edmonton antheral has been charged successful a lawsuit of multi-million dollar fraud successful Nunavut.
Man accused of utilizing email scam to bargain money, Nunavut RCMP accidental
Emma Tranter · CBC News
· Posted: Jul 02, 2025 4:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
A 23-year-old Edmonton antheral has been charged successful a lawsuit of multi-million dollar fraud successful Nunavut.
Kirk Nosagie Iyekekpolor has been charged with defrauding the Qikiqtaaluk Business Development Corporation — an economical improvement enactment working in the Baffin Island region.
Iyekekpolor is accused of stealing over $2.9 cardinal from the corp successful the autumn of 2024.
He is besides accused of defrauding the Nunavut Film Development Corporation of $26,000.
In a quality merchandise Wednesday, the Nunavut RCMP said the wealth was stolen done a concern email compromise — a blase scam wherever idiosyncratic hacks a business email relationship to behaviour unauthorized transfers of funds.
The Iqaluit RCMP, with the assistance of the Alberta RCMP, arrested him and charged him with 2 counts of fraud implicit $5,000.
This is the 2nd multi-million dollar fraud apprehension successful the territory this year
A Winnipeg antheral was besides charged earlier this twelvemonth for utilizing the aforesaid method to defraud the Qikiqtani Inuit Association of implicit $2 million.
Iyekekpolor was remanded into custody and his adjacent tribunal quality is July 22 successful Iqaluit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emma Tranter is simply a newsman with CBC North successful Yellowknife, mostly covering Nunavut's Kitikmeot region. She worked successful journalism successful Nunavut for 5 years, wherever she reported successful Iqaluit for CBC, The Canadian Press and Nunatsiaq News. She tin beryllium reached astatine [email protected].
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