Project Fisk and the allegations against Abdullah Shah
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For more than three years, Edmonton police Det. Dan Behiels investigated notorious Edmonton landlord Abdullah Shah and some of his alleged accomplices. In January 2021, when the investigations concluded and no charges were laid, a frustrated Behiels took the extraordinary step of leaking the confidential investigative documents to CBC News. He is now suspended and facing disciplinary charges. CBC Edmonton's new series — Behind the blue line: Investigating Abdullah Shah — digs into those documents and why Behiels decided to put his career on the line for them.
Part Two looks at Project Fisk, a two-year investigation into Abdullah Shah and his company Home Placement Systems as a "suspected criminal organization."
Project Fisk had one aim — to gather evidence in a bid to dismantle a "suspected criminal organization" alleged to be led by notorious convicted criminal Abdullah Shah, also known as Carmen Pervez.
Started in 2019 and headed by now-suspended Edmonton police Det. Dan Behiels, the project was a joint operation between the Edmonton Police Service and the Canada Revenue Agency.
The investigative team was focused on the suspected offences of money laundering, evasion of taxes and participation in a criminal organization, according to Behiels.
"In January, 2019, members of the Edmonton Police Service identified the operations of Home Placement Systems (HPS) as a suspected criminal organization," Behiels wrote as part of a 101-page sworn provincial court document called an Information to Obtain (ITO) that was filed in July 2019 to obtain search warrants on a number of properties connected to Shah.
The ITO provides a snapshot of the investigation at the time it's filed. CBC obtained the document in January 2021 after it was unsealed by the provincial court in December 2020. Later in January, Behiels leaked thousands of pages of investigative materials to CBC News after the Project Fisk investigation was closed and no charges were laid.
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