Raising
the alarm
Too
often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain,
push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm,
it's too late.
Rita Coolidge
Would it not have been great if the authorities, the media, ACMO
and all the condominiums in the Greater Toronto Area would have been
warned in 2007 that Manzoor Khan and Channel Management Company were
accused of fraud, uttering forged documents and were being sued for
fraud and failing to perform their duties with due diligence?
But they all were informed and they ignored the warnings.
Channel
employee
A resident of PCC #143 was working for Channel. When Don Snider started
to tell her about all the criminal things Manzoor did to
their condo,
she told him that she did not want to hear about it.
The police
In 2007, the new board of directors went to Peel Police to ask the
police to investigate and charge Manzoor Khan and Channel Property
Management with fraud and uttering forged documents. Although they
brought 200 pages of documentation with them, they were told that they
were put on the list and it would take about 12 months for the police
to get to it.
They then went to Mayor Hazel McCallium and their councillor Carolyn
Perrish. She did send letter to the police asking them to lay charges.
The board also went to the Ontario Provincial Police because Channel
was a provincially registered company and the OPP said that they needed
a local police force to request that they get involved.
The media
A director gave a copy of the 200 pages of documents to the local
television stations and to all the major newspapers. None showed any
interest at all.
Future victim
By error, Channel sent Don Snider the names of the directors of one of
his other condo clients. Don informed those directors that PCC #143 was
getting rid of Channel for suspected fraud but none of those directors
got in touch with Don to ask him what he was talking about.
Manzoor threatened to sue Don for taking the trouble to warn that condo.
In September 2011, that condo corporation was listed in the Toronto
Star as one of Channel's fraud victims.
ACMO
Don Snider took a file containing 200 pages of documents to the
Association of Condominium Managers of Ontario (ACMO) to register
a complaint about Manzoor Khan and Channel Property
Management. The
complaints were about uttering forged documents, theft and criminal
breach of trust.
When he got there, the woman who saw him refused to accept the
documents. Don was told that if the board had a complaint about one of
ACMO's members, they needed to go on-line and fill in one of their
forms.
Don told her that he did not work for ACMO so he should not have to
fill in their form. He asked her how could he condense all of this
information into an online form?
Don says that she didn't want to hear about it. She did take Manzoor's
business card to tell him to stop calling himself a Registered
Condominium Manager (RCM).
She told Don that if a company has an RCM on their payroll they can put
the RCM accreditation on the company's letterhead.
As Don says, an RCM can manage multiple condominiums and never set foot
on any of the properties!
The
alarm is sounded
There is a larger image of
this ACMO Alert in Documents.
Three years later, after Khan fled the country and Channel—by
then a
prestigious ACMO 2000 member—was exposed as a fraud, ACMO informed
their members that they took this matter very seriously.
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