Here is another fine specimen: 100 (yes, one hundred) criminal convictions and STILL IN CANADA! Not only that,he is free pending a decision, and no doubt he will start frivolous and vexations filings to delay deportation. One is left to wonder what a person needs to do in order to get kicked out. It is time to change this stupid mindset.
Romanian mob boss free pending possible deportation
James Turner
Winnipeg Free Press
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
WINNIPEG - The leader of an eastern European organized crime syndicate operating in Canada, who has amassed more than 100 criminal convictions since his arrival here 17 years ago, has been set free to wait for his potential deportation.
Gheorghe Capra, 47, appeared Wednesday before the immigration review board in a Winnipeg courtroom.
He had just been released on parole from prison after serving one third of a 30-month sentence for fraud over $5,000.
Now, he faces possible deportation.
Capra has long been on the radar of police in Canada.
Court documents show Montreal police first noticed him more than 10 years ago as part of a crime ring specializing in bank machine fraud and "skimming" scams.
In these scams, credit or debit card information is illegally stolen, downloaded to a computer and transferred to blank cards used to make illegal purchases or withdrawals.
Winnipeg police said in February - following a surveillance operation into the activities of Capra and three others - that the group was "very sophisticated."
Canadian Border Services lawyer Maria Dejaeger said Capra mostly targeted senior citizens, who were tricked into picking up a $20 bill while at a bank machine and had their ATM cards switched.
He would then use the card to drain all the cash from his victims' bank accounts, officials say.
Capra came to Canada from Romania in 1991 by secretly stowing himself aboard a ship that entered Montreal.
He was granted Convention Refugee status and became a permanent resident the next year, the same year he garnered his first conviction for uttering threats.
Because of Capra's convention status, the federal immigration minister's office must rule that he's a danger to the public before he can be legally booted from Canada.
A decision isn't expected until December.
Dejaeger asked that Capra be held in custody pending a decision on whether he's eligible to be removed from the country.
But Kyba said it was unjust to ask him to imply that Capra was a public danger by keeping him in custody pending that decision.
Kyba ordered Capra released if he could post two $5,000 bonds and agree to abide by the conditions of his parole.
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