CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, January 90, 1975 ‘Takes Sharp Frau Many local residents will remember a young policeman by the name of Bob Mullock who was stationed here some years ago, Mullock is now an inspec- lor with the RCMP's commer: cial fraud squad in Vancouver and was the recent subject of a column in the Vancouver Sun written by Jim Lyon, a busi- ness writer with that news- paper. The articte follows: “This 1s a very sophisticat- ed professional type of per- ‘son. Even though some of them ere dishonest, they arc @ very nice bunch of people to deal with.” ‘Thus one professiynal’s ap- Praisal of another, The game Is cops and rob bers; but the arena Is differ: ent. Instead of back alleys and underworld hangouts Hob Mullock’s clients ply” thelr trade Inch atmosphere of corporate opulence: board rooms, good restaurants and International air travel. AS crooks, they are the creain of the crop, e Alulcck is an inspector with CMP's commercial fraud Fgind in Vancouver, Into ‘and that of the fraud squad, An armed robbery, for in- stance. 1s alvays renorted: Me uroblem Is to discover whodunit, With commercial fraud, id it.” ‘The difficulty Is to decide what crime, if any, has been committed, "If Ple commit a crime and are successful it will never be reported. It is only the fall- ures we hear about.’ Mullock has spent almost 25 years In the RCMP, all in pole Columbia. T was In Victoria in 1964 Corporate Sleuth dSquad to Outwit Boardroom Crooks in the GIS (general investi. © Bation section) and they ci ed if anyone was interest in commerctal fad ie lock decided he wi sald be knew nothing about | busi- ness or accounting. He took an Investment Dealers’ Assn. course in 1968 followed by other courses in accounting and bankrupteles. x Mullock says his most in- teresting case involved the conviction of Tom Scallen, President of Minneapolis-bas- ed Medicor Corp., parent company of Northwest Sports Enterprises Ud.. which. in turn owned the Vancouver Can- ithe corporate landscape; a conservatively dressed man with a quiet manner and more than a passing acquain- tance with accounting and law, His work is undramualic, non-violent and often tedious. But the stakes are high —his cases always run between $50,000 and $3 millon. to $4 million. : We pursues top echelon white - collar criminals — swindlers and sonhlstlcated book fiddlers. — and follows them, if necessary, all over the world, “I have been to Australia, Switzerland two or three times, England . . . all over North America.” To tle up the loose end of one case — obtain a single incriminating document — be ‘once snent six weeks travel- ing all over the United es, ‘The commercial fraud squad often investigates cases in the. murky twilight -zone between legality and: illegal- Ity. In one instance, at least, It has successfully made case law. (In the Crown vs. Sieg- fried Marquardt, it was held that a sole owner of a com- pany can be convicted of de- frauding thal company). Mullock points to one essen- tial difference between nor- mal police investigative work of theft’ of $3 million from Northwest and making a false Prospectus in connection with a public offering of shares and debentures, He wax sen- fenced lo four years which was reduced to tivo years on appeal.) When I first got involved In this investigntion | travel- ted to Boston, New York and Philadelphia, ‘They had Holi- day On Tee: it was a huge vorporate world that they lived In, “Tom Is a very nice fellow, but he did this...” ‘Mullock yenerally works on up to half a dozen files ut 0 would want to be satisfied within six months whether there was a‘crime in it and whether it could be taken to court: Even then there might be a lot of loose ends.” Commercial fraud investi- ations lnvolve slow, pain: staking wor! “Usually fT tukes two or ‘three- months to seize docu- ments and analyze them and get a CA (chariered account- ant) to go through the re- cords and see where you are going to go. The exciting part is sien n you decide where you ig tg go because you es Stacking. eien it is ex- celting . . . that is until you get to the courts.” Bob Mullock ‘The rt ran wrk i volves pi trial. sinc Ng ‘it ft w te heard before a jury.’ “Ht the case is before a Jury you have to prepure a vase that a lauymwn can Understand, “We will sel. it. out on charts so that they cun see visually what is golng on, We’ will take euch of the docu ments we have: copy them . and number them. As ments go in the are will get @ ledger and they: will have 8 lot of documents, Such a case usuilly takes two to two and a half weeks prepare, Conviclions for serious white collar crimes have re- sulted in jail terms of ee to seven years — a1 cause of the nature of ie crime these are usually offenders, Once convicted uf commer- cial fraud, says Mutlock. tt would be difficult for a per- son to go back to crime on any scale In Canada. The The Columbia River Trea- ty ratified by Canada in 1964 was the biggest international resource deal this country has ever made and was probably the most controversial. » After years of study by.an “international ‘joint. commission “and the highest level of negotia- tion in Canada and the United States, the treaty was signed. Its ramifications in human and economic terms are still being felt. On Sunday, Feb. 16 at 10 p.m. CBC-TY will present “The Reckoning”, a one-hour film -y about the Colum TRUCKLOAD SALE OF FISH Over 50 Varieties TOMORROW, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m, at the Castlegar Hotel WEST COAST SEAFOODS bia River Treaty. Over a year in preparation, the program was produced and directed by Mike Poole and written, and narrated by Mike Halleran, the CBC Vancouver team responsi- ble for the 1973 Wilderness Award-winning documentary, “The Politics of Power—The Freser and the Future’, “The Reckoning” looks at the events which lead,to the Columbia River Treaty, its heavy political overtones, its To beat the crooks at their ‘own game the police have to be equally smurt; hence the strong emphasis that Insp, Don Armstrong, officer In churge of the fraud squad, Places on, educailon Ve has total of 28 officers under his ‘romans 22 In Vane couver, the remulnder in Kumloops und Victoria, “We have uw vurlely of backgrounds,” he suys, “I think In here we have prob- ably 10 or TL graduates out ol our number, Several juve commercial or business de> grees or related fields,” Several universities avruss Cunada ure co-operating with the RCMP in the orovision of specially + tailored one - yeur non-degree courses thal cover such subjects as accounting, corporate law, taxation, and rere worl “One guy specializes. in Insurance and real estate fields, He hus been a police- man for 15 yeurs and he has been taking real estate cours- es for (wo yeurs at nights. Almost all the fellows are taking courses al ti ‘Armstrong says the squad's work breaks down into three main ureas — stock and related offenves. includ ing thefts, and forgeries: manioutations in financial fa- stitutions “such as credit unions: nnd bankruvtcies and stolen und counterteit securi- thes. : volved in the investigation of unemployment insurance conspiracies, insurance frauds, real estate frauds end frauds under the Smull Loans Act. The squud makes use of outside chartered accountants In about 70 per cent of iis cuses. “Sometimes we have Columbia complex economic implications, and what happened on a very personal level to some ordinary people as a result of the treaty. ‘The Columbia River rises in Canada and reaches the sea in the United States: Thp Columbia and its hundteds of tributaries make it the biggest Pacific slope river in North America, providing one-third of all U.S. hydro-production. In the late 1950's there were only five small dams on the Columbia system in Cana- da, But the Americans had built more than a hundred dams on the Columbia and its tributaries on their side of the border. Eleven of the biggest dams were on the main stem of the river. And more than half of their water supply came from Canada. But most of this ran down in the flood season of May, June and July. First and smallest of the treaty projects was the Duncan Dam, completed in 1967. It stores 1.4 million acre feet of water in the Duncan River Valley. In 1968 the Keenteyside Breakfast on an egg. And get high quality protein... calcium . .VitaminA and iron going for you. All day long. THE EGG GROWERS GROUP or High Arrow Dam, as it was first called, was completed. It raised the level of the Arrow Lakes to provide 7.1 million acre feet of storage. At Mica Creek, on the Big Bend of the Columbia, the Mica Dam began trapping water in the spring of 1973. This is the biggest of te dams and will store more than 11 million acre feet of water, The treaty also provided for the Libby Dam in the United States on the Kootenay River in Montana. Its reservoir backs up across the border and floods 42 miles into Canada. Writer-narrator Mike Hal- leran gives the following in- ATTEN CASTLEGAR All 1975 WATER” bev, now been mailed, COUNTS as follows: WATER 20% SEWER 10% ment, as many #s four firms work- ing in here,” says Armstrong. “While sume of my people may be cummerce — grads they hol CAs und cannot give lestiniony us expert wits he (he cuniplex nature of the work the unit hay ull on suine of Vancouver's top lawyers tv ict us special proseculors. ar strong is unwilling to his departmental bud- nur is be uble to prov. Ide statistles on the numbers of commercial fruudy _ und the cunvictlon rate. “In the urea we are in you can't reully use statistics. You can't know what percen- tage of crimes is belny repors ted. We inay only have know- ledge of 10 per cent of tie crime going on in the prov- ince. “Many limes people don't know that they have it “TL would say 80 per cent of all investigations arrive in court. A reasonably youd per- centuge of these result in cun- vietlons as a result of the goud counsel we get." Despite the lack of stalist- Tes, Armstrong is convint that commercial fraud is in- creasing. . Presumably he has been able to make powerful argu ments to his superiors to sup- port this thesis, He Is expec ting the arrival of another 15 members to beef. up his de- partment this. spring. * ae Ba) tee aud whe has been an aa ‘ale ¢ for 21 years. “its main areas of concen are stulen und counterfeit se curities und orguntzed crime. River Treaty sight into the treaty. “Ten years ago at Blaine, Wash. President Lyndon Johnson signed a ceremonial cheque concluding the Columbia River ATreaty..between the,U.S. and Canada, Today there is still bitter areument over the terms and costs. “The Americans paid us nearly balf a billion dollars to build three dams in B.C. For nearly 10 years there was a great construction boom em- ploying thousands of men, but the money's all gone now and - the bills are still coming in. “The.dams were of enor- mous value to the Americans for flood contro! and power generation. ‘There are lasting advantages for Canada. But we put 150,000 acres of bottom land under water forever. 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Some youngsters, and not 0 youngsters, are still, walking down the roads because the sidewalks are covered with too much snow, If you have to walk down the roadway. walk on the side which faces the oncoming traffic, ‘These are just a few things that pave been noticed in the last little while, but we don't have to ry because our children wouldnt be doing anything like thee, Woura they? BoA Di pore Manpower Places 4,500 People from Jan. to Dec. The Trail Canada Man- power Centre successfully placed 4,500 people in reason- ably full-time jobs during the perlod Jan..1.to Dec, 31, 1974, Manager of the Canada Man- power Centre, Bruce King, said despite numerous work stop- pages In the economy and a gradual softening In forest industry markets, this year's placement totals were the highest recorded by the office. 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