A Canadian lawyer gets 5-year prison term along with his Manager for swindling

“He told us we will travel to Canada within six months and get a job and a home there…years passed and we lost our money without getting any visas or compensation. We read on one of the largest Algerian newspapers that the office of legal advisory and immigration to Canada which offered us its services never existed and has no authorisation by the Canadian embassy or even by the organization of the Algerian lawyers”, said the six victims who attended Tuesday’s court of Sidi Mhamed, Algiers. They came to expose their suffering at the hands of the Canadian lawyer Patrice Brunei, who cheated on them during 16 years accompanied by his fake office director, Ibrahim Kater, reaping the amount of one and half million dollars.

• The case, as stated in court, goes back to 2001 when the Canadian lawyer Patrice Brunei opened an office for immigration and legal advisory in the street of Didouche Mourad in upper Algiers by declaring  his provisions of service on the pages of the national newspapers.
• In 2005, several deluded people lodged legal complains against him but he secretely travelled back to Canada. The case was reopened another time and he was transferred with his manager to justice. The two men were sentenced in absentia on charges of cheating and fraud.
• Justice sentenced them to five years in jail. They 2 culprits are now the subject of an international  arrest warrant.