A Montreal fraudster who allegedly organized to get into a loved one’s will has just found himself in the sights of authorities, who are alarmed to see him paying for restaurants, excursions and even a luxury vacuum cleaner from the property.
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“He uses money a lot […] Pay restaurant bills for two people, for trips to […] Ottawa and Toronto to shop for predominantly male clothing and beauty products […]for a vacuum cleaner worth $1,149,” we can read in the civil lawsuit filed against Georgi Spitzer in the Montreal court.
Spitzer, a 67-year-old Montrealer, is known in the United States for drugging and raping women in the 1990s. Then, when he returned to Canada after a long stint in prison, he attacked a woman who had just received $300,000 following a divorce. He presented himself as a lawyer and charmed her before taking $100,000 from her, which he spent at the casino.
“He had done everything he could to give his victim a false sense of security,” the Crown commented in 2018, before the fraudster was sentenced to two years probation for 42 months of preventive detention.
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Will has changed
However, at the same time, Spitzer had arranged for a close elder to change his will and leave him hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property. The handwritten will replaced the notarized will, which left everything to the daughter of the eldest child.
The public curator then became interested in this new handwritten will to verify its validity. However, Spitzer managed to reach an amicable settlement in which he agreed to place the estate into a trust fund.
However, through further checks, the public curator realized that Spitzer was a notorious fraudster and that he apparently paid for the bill with funds from the estate.
Mysterious withdrawals
In addition to restaurants, clothing and beauty products, he allegedly made “unexplained withdrawals” of more than $50,000.
“Despite repeated requests, the public prosecutor has still not received a copy of the estate inventory,” the court document also states.
The state administrator added that no tax returns had been filed and the estate’s bank account was quickly emptying, and he took legal action, fearing there would soon be nothing left.
“This is urgent [Spitzer] be relieved of his position as liquidator in order to avoid the waste of assets found in Romania,” the civil lawsuit states.
Unless an amicable agreement is reached, the application will soon go before a Quebec Superior Court judge.
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