Toronto police officer convicted of stealing from dead people sentenced to 7 years in prison

A Toronto police officer convicted of stealing from deceased individuals he was supposed to be investigating has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

A Toronto police officer convicted of stealing from deceased individuals he was supposed to be investigating has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

The sentence was handed down in a Newmarket courtroom earlier this week and confirmed to CP24.com by a spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

In May, Const. Boris Borissov was found guilty of 15 charges related to five incidents that occurred between 2020 and 2022. The charges included theft, fraud, breach of trust by an official, and obstruction of justice.

In one incident, a court heard that Borissov and another officer were called to the apartment of a man who was reported missing and later found to have died by suicide.

During that investigation, Borissov stole the man’s debit card, which was used by an associate at a Mississauga butcher shop the next day, the Crown said during the trial. The officer later attended the butcher shop and downloaded footage of the associate, submitting a false police report in an attempt to obstruct justice, the court heard.

The Crown also asserted that Borissov stole a TAG Heuer watch, valued at $6,500, from the missing man’s apartment and tried to sell it, an allegation the accused denied.

In another incident, the court heard, Borissov was investigating the death of a woman in May of 2020 when he stole her credit card and gave the information to an unknown individual who then used it to make fraudulent purchases.