Three charged in $210,000 bank fraud scheme

Windsor Police Service file photo. (Sanjay Maru/CTV News Windsor)

A $210,000 bank fraud scheme has led to three suspects arrested in Windsor.

In November 2022, an investigation was launched by the Windsor Police Service Financial Crime Unit after a report was made of suspected fraudulent activity at a local bank.

Investigators said three people ‘conspired to deposit fraudulent cheques, withdraw funds, and falsify bank drafts as part of the scheme.’

The suspects were identified as 48-year-old Alex Mereby, 26-year-old George Kafaldjian, and 37-year-old Elie Haddad.

On Tuesday afternoon, the OPP Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement squad arrested Mereby at a home in the 300 block of Letino Drive in Belle River.

Haddad and Kafaldjian turned themselves in later to the WPS headquarters.

The three suspects are now facing charges for fraud over $5,000, laundering proceeds of crime, conspiracy to commit fraud, and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.