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Indian Brook band councillor facing fraud charges

Fraud charges

Fraud charges

Published on February 5, 2013
Published on February 5, 2013
Harry Sullivan  RSS Feed

Former financial director also implicated

SHUBENACADIE - A band councillor from Indian Brook and a former financial director with the band have both been charged with possession of crime proceeds.

Topics :
CBC , Shubenacadie Band Council , RCMP , Indian Brook , Herring Cove Road , Halifax

According to a report by the CBC, councillor Michael Patrick Sack, 31, is facing charges related to a luxury house near Herring Cove Road in Halifax.

The CBC quotes a Nova Scotia public prosecution service spokesperson who said the case involves an alleged fraud of more than $150,000.

"In this particular case, there will be an allegation that funds were stolen or defrauded," Shauna MacDonald said in the CBC report.

Sack was re-elected to the Shubenacadie Band Council in November. He also faces a perjury charge in relation to the case for swearing an affidavit prosecutors say was untrue.

According to court documents, $120,000 of the home's purchase price was allegedly obtained through illegal means.

The second man is named as Jeffrey Cecil Hayes, a former financial director with the band, who was fired after hundreds of thousands of dollars could not be accounted for.

Two jeeps, valued at about $50,000, that are owned by Hayes have been seized by the RCMP along with a 32-inch Samsung television that was in his possession.

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