According to documents that the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) filed in court, this marketing employee at Desjardins admitted to having stolen data concerning millions of customers for months. He allegedly extracted them from his employer’s servers by transferring them to USB sticks and hard drives, and even using the file sending service WeTransfer.
This private lender from Quebec would have acquired the stolen data to resell it to a group of brokers from Quebec, on the one hand, and to fraudsters, on the other hand.
He was Leullier-Masse’s partner in Prêt Argent 500, a private lending company in Montmagny that Laval police raided in June 2019. The company, also called Groupe Solutia, still exists, but Bernier is one of them today. today the sole shareholder, according to the company register.
She also worked at Prêt Argent 500.
In documents filed in court in connection with the Portier investigation, the SQ claims that brokers and private lenders in Quebec bought the data in order to have an advantage over their competitors. With this information, they could target potential customers to offer them loans and insurance.
Mortgage broker and private lender in Quebec, he would have bought back part of the stolen data. Sentenced in 2022 to fines totaling $36,000 and a 420-day suspension, he admitted to acquiring information on “150,000 to 200,000” Desjardins clients before the brokers’ disciplinary committee. The police are still looking for him.
Still associated with Joncas today in a company, he was sentenced to fines totaling $40,000 for the repurchase of data concerning 40,000 customers and for obstructing an investigation by the Financial Markets Authority.
The SQ considers that they are “on the run abroad.”
This repeat fraudster allegedly bought Desjardins customer lists from Leullier-Masse in order to “trafficking” with this information and carrying out fraud.
In 2022, he described to La Presse the unpleasant “dynamic entry” of the SQ into his condo in September 2019 (they broke down the door). “Is it written in the police report that they dislocated my shoulder when they threw me to the ground? »
Police say they discovered a list that included 3.85 million guests at his condo. She also found a small amount of methamphetamine, “check writing paper,” bank drafts totaling $76,913, nearly $9,000 in bank notes and a check to purchase $4,628 in gold.
Roommate of Juan Pablo Serrano at the time of the alleged events, he would have become the latter’s accomplice to commit fraud. The arrest warrant issued Thursday claims he kept stolen data longer than others, until June 2021.
On Wednesday, the Laval Police Department also accused four individuals of using data stolen from Desjardins to commit fraud. They allegedly used it to change customer passwords and log into their accounts using the AccèsD online transaction site.
Three of them are accused of fraud over $5,000, trafficking in identifying information, possession of identifying information and identity theft. The first two were due to appear in court Wednesday.
They allegedly committed fraud totaling $8.9 million. The police did not recover any of these sums, which are now dispersed “in Canada, the United States and across the world,” according to information made public at a press briefing.
An arrest warrant has been issued to find him.
He was released on a promise to appear. According to the information concerning him, he is targeted by lesser charges of possession of identifying information for the purpose of committing fraud.