Provisionally suspended lawyers Singa Bui, left, and husband Nicholas Cartel, right, have been ordered jailed for failing to obey court orders in relation to more than $6.5 million embezzled from their trust account.
A pair of Toronto lawyers accused of embezzling more than $6.5 million from real estate clients have been sentenced to 30 days each in jail for failing to obey court orders to hand over financial records and answer questions about where the money went.Lawyers Singa Bui, left, and husband Nicholas Cartel have been ordered jailed for failing to obey court orders in relation to more than $6.5 million embezzled from their trust account.
was embezzled from the firm's trust account, mostly between April and December 2023. Many of those plaintiffs have already obtained default judgments. Singa Bui leaves Superior Court in Toronto on Friday, accompanied by her lawyer, Andrew Wray. She was ordered to start a 30-day jail sentence next month.
Chalmers accepted that while the surrender of both Cartel's and Bui's passports is a mitigating factor, many court orders to hand over materials have gone unfulfilled. Cartel's only question to the judge before being handcuffed was whether he would have access to a laptop while in custody so he could continue to work on his case, or whether he would have to give instructions to others while jailed. The judge told Cartel he would have to "figure it out."Both lawyers were provisionally suspended by the Law Society of Ontario in April while it investigates the case further. Toronto police's fraud squad is also investigating.
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