Suspects involved in grandparent scam had ties to Italian organized crime, police allege
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A group of suspects that allegedly defrauded seniors across Ontario and other parts of Canada using a so-called emergency grandparent scam appear to have ties to "Italian traditional organized crime," according to an investigator involved in the OPP-led probe. Details of the interprovincial investigation, dubbed Project Sharp, were announced at a news conference in Scarborough on Thursday morning. Police said 56 charges have been laid against 14 suspects, who were all arrested in the...

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