Lobster fraud: Three facing charges in complex, $3-million international case
BARRINGTON, N.S. — More than $3 million worth of lobster is at the centre of a complex, international case involving fraud and theft allegations against three men from southwestern Nova Scotia, RCMP said Tuesday.
“They’ve been in the lobster industry for quite some time,” RCMP Supt. Martin Marin said in an interview. “They have deep roots.”
The Mounties’ investigation started in July 2015 when allegations arose that a man from Shag Harbour, N.S., had allegedly defrauded a Shelburne County lobster company of $175,000 during the previous fishing season.
During the course of the investigation, the RCMP looked into similar allegations that a lobster company in Clark’s Harbour had been defrauded of over $500,000 in 2014-15.