04 July 2009

A trust betrayed

Whatever happened to honour, duty, country?
-- VANCOUVER -- For the second time in less than two years, an employee of the Canada Border Services Agency is accused of misusing his position to help international drug traffickers smuggle cocaine into B.C.

An arrest warrant for Jasbir Singh Grewal was issued in a Seattle courtroom two weeks ago, The Vancouver Sun has learned.

Grewal is accused of allowing at least 12 large shipments of cocaine concealed in motor homes to cross into B.C. from Washington state.
And it's not the first incident in recent memory...
Another CBSA border guard, Baljinder Kandola, is due back in Surrey Provincial Court Aug. 19 after being charged in a similar smuggling case.

Kandola faces counts of breach of trust and conspiracy to import cocaine and firearms after he was arrested in October 2007 along with others in B.C. and Washington.
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