A Woodstock man faces several charges after an Ontario Provincial Police investigation into fraud.
A man walked into a bank in Tecumseh on February 2 and deposited a cheque worth $100,000. Then, the money was withdrawn before the bank could notice the cheque was fraudulent.
The OPP launched the investigation with help from the Essex County OPP Major Crime Unit, Elgin OPP Major Crime Unit, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, the OPP Anti-Rackets Branch, and the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.
A 43-year-old man was arrested, and now faces charges of making a false statement in writing, fraud over $5,000, use of a forged document, laundering the proceeds of crime, possession of property obtained by crime, and possession of an article stolen from the mail.
The suspect is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Windsor on May 29.