Residents of Brampton, Mississauga and York Region have been booked for offences, including mail theft, $5,000 fraud, identity theft, forging documents, possession of stolen property and controlled substances.

TORONTO – Sixteen Punjabi NRIs have been booked for over 140 offences following a week-long investigation by the 21 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Peel Region Police in Ontario.

Residents of Brampton, Mississauga and York Region have been booked for offences, including mail theft, $5,000 fraud, identity theft, forging documents, possession of stolen property and controlled substances.

The residents of Brampton, Mississauga, and York Region charged for various offences in this case are Gurdeep Bains (46) from Brampton, Hartinder Randhawa, (37) from Brampton, Taranjeet Virk (37) from Woodbridge, Harmeet Khakh (28) from Brampton, Gurdip Singh (28) from Brampton, Harjinder Singh (31) from Brampton, Gurkamal Mehmi (38) from Brampton ,Gurvinder Kang (38) from Brampton,Gurpreet Singh (21) from Brampton, Suhail Kumar (21) from Brampton, Rattan Preetam (26) from Brampton, Rupinder Sharma (25) from Brampton ,Joga Singh (30) from Toronto ,Varinderpal Kooner (43) from Brampton, Harman Singh (21) from Brampton and Kuldeep Sandhara (27) from Brampton.

As per the Canadian Police, they began a multi-jurisdictional probe in collaboration with Canada Post, Halton Regional Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police and numerous financial institutions last month after scrutinising over 100 reports of mail theft between January and April and discovering links to a group of individuals residing in Brampton.

On June 16 and 17, two searches were conducted at residences in Brampton, where officers located stolen items.

Further arrests and charges are anticipated in relation to this investigation.