🇨🇦 Offshore fraud kingpin walks free in Vancouver while prosecutors shrug

Fred Sharp orchestrated over a billion dollars in stock fraud through Panama Papers shell companies, got hit with $70 million in U.S. fines and $2 million from Quebec regulators, banned from Canadian markets, accounts frozen. U.S. indicted him five years ago. He still lives comfortably in West Vancouver. No extradition hearing. No Canadian charges despite CRA pushing for criminal investigation years ago. Why? Because our system prefers someone else do the heavy lifting, as one former RCMP financial crimes chief admitted.

This is the two-tier justice system in action: flood the country with newcomers who get deported for paperwork errors, but let a West Vancouver lawyer who helped the wealthy hide hundreds of millions offshore sip wine on his deck for half a decade after indictment. No urgency, no accountability, no trial. Just the quiet solidarity of a regime that protects its own class while prosecuting yours.

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