A former check-in agent for Air Canada put together a scam where he collected milage points of Air Canada passangers for his own use. His scam collected a total of five million miles in different accounts. He used the miles to fly friends and family around the world in first class.
April 20, 2004
The Star
Air Canada staffer guilty in Air Miles scam
Staffer created ghost accounts, deposited credits of boarding passengers
LONDON, England - A former check-in agent working for Air Canada has pleaded guilty to an air miles scam that allowed him and others to fly first-class around the world.
Satbal Singh, 24, pleaded guilty to charges of false accounting, obtaining services by deception and obtaining property by deception in a London court on Monday. A police spokesman could not say Tuesday what punishment Singh faces when he returns to court May 21 for sentencing.
In a news release, Britain's National Crime Squad said Singh credited phoney accounts he set up for himself with the air miles points of passengers he checked in while working for Air Canada at Heathrow Airport.
He fraudulently collected five million air miles in accounts with a variety of airlines.