Ottawa priest charged after parish funds allegedly misappropriated

CANADA
The Windsor Star

By The Canadian PressJuly 4, 2012

OTTAWA – An Ottawa priest faces fraud and theft charges after police say they found hundreds of thousands of dollars were misappropriated from a downtown parish.

Police say they reviewed financial records at the Blessed Sacrament parish in the Glebe neighbourhood following a complaint by the Ottawa archdiocese.

Fraud investigators examined records from January 2006 to May 2011 and allege they found more than $240,000 in cheques had been misappropriated.

They say they also they couldn’t account for more than $160,000 in cash revenues.

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