Exclusive: GTA man cops plea in fake ‘Camel Toe’ toonie case, gets big fine
coins after depositing the fakes into Canada’s banking system, Global News has learned.During a brief court appearance in Newmarket on Dec. 9, 2022, That Daixiong He, 69, of Richmond Hill, Ont., admitted he was guilty for his use of fake toonies.His plea came after he was caught injecting thousands of fake toonies into Canada’s banking system by making large deposits into several of his personal accounts at BMO, HSBC and RBC.There also is a second person of interest in this case who appears to have escaped a deportation attempt.Global News was unable to reach Mr.
He for comment. He received no prison time, even though he faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail.Ontario General Court Justice Amit Ghosh fined Mr.
He $100,000 after he admitted to breaching two sections of the Criminal Code (452 a and 450 b) for “uttering and possessing” counterfeit $2 coins between Jan. 4, 2021, and Nov.
12, 2021 “without lawful justification or excuse.”The Crown later agreed to stay the second charge of possessing fake toonies after Mr. He paid his fine by electronic bank draft, court records show.His guilty plea came after a probe by the RCMP’s Trans-National Serious and Organized Crime unit in Toronto, led by Supt.
Ann Koenig, with involvement by Fintrac, the federal government’s financial intelligence agency.Mr. He’s arrest was announced with fanfare in May 2022 after a flood of fake toonies began circulating in Greater Toronto during the summer of 2020.The fake $2 coins at the centre of the counterfeiting scheme became known as “Camel Toe Toonies.” That’s because counterfeit experts spotted the fake coins by the outsized toes on the polar bear’s right paw on the fake coins.Richmond Hill defence counsel Thomas Richards, who
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