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Used car salesman jailed for 1 year Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com
A used car salesman who scammed his boss out of $259,000 has been sent to jail for a year by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.
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Sock it to ’em
STEFAN Trifu and Landon Dix of Nood North Vancouver relax in a couple of pairs of red socks. Home and lifestyle retailer Nood has launched its second annual Red Socks Project in conjunction with the Salvation Army. Customers are encouraged to donate $2 towards the purchase of the red socks that will be distributed by the Salvation Army. Last year the Army distributed 10,662 pairs of socks from Nood in Calgary, Victoria and Vancouver. The campaign is on now until Dec. 24. Nood is located at 801 Marine Drive.
Alireza Toraj Zolnasr, 42, was sales manager of the used car lot for Pacific Honda in North Vancouver and lived in the British Properties when he began a convoluted scheme to defraud his employer in 2005. The scam involved creating phony paperwork, including falsifying purchase agreements, while buying and selling used cars from various wholesaler lots. In some cases cheques written by the wholesalers were never deposited with Pacific Honda. In others, Zolnasr sold cars while still recording them as inventory on the car lot. The ruse was only discovered after one of the wholesalers called Pacific Honda and tipped the company off to the fraud. When they checked, bosses found 30 vehicles unaccounted for. Crown counsel Kevin Marks told the judge the breach of trust was a shock to the business owners and See Fraudster page 11
Most council incumbents re-elected Fearnley, Evison lose seats; turnout up in NV, down in WV
Tessa Holloway tholloway@nsnews.com
THE mayoralty races drove voters to the polls in North Vancouver, but West Vancouver saw the lowest turnout in more than 30 years in Saturday’s election. Just 23.7 per cent of eligible voters bothered to cast a ballot for council in West Vancouver, where mayor-elect Michael Smith was
acclaimed without a vote. That was down from 32.56 per cent in 2008 and a high of nearly 56 per cent in 1988. That’s the lowest turnout since the 1980 election, the last for which there are statistics, when all mayor and council spots were filled by acclamation. The number of voters climbed in both the district and city of North Vancouver, however, to 21 per cent in the district and 21.6 per cent in the city. In 2008, those two races recorded 16.5 per cent and 17.6
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per cent turnout respectively. District mayor Richard Walton said the turnout was encouraging, but still too low, suggesting next year the district could experiment with Internet voting or polling stations that go to seniors’ residences ahead of election day. His focus over the next three years, however, would be on implementing the official community plan, and said voters sent a strong message of support in re-electing all incumbents. “You know how close this council has worked together as a team and I’m pleased that the community voted us back in as a team,” he said. See Former page 3 ®™ Trademarkk of AIR MILEES Internatio ® a nal Traading B.V V. Used under licencee by LooyaltyO One, Innc. annd Craaftsm man Collission Ltd.
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