CANADA: Police close universities council fraud case

Toronto police have closed the file on a fraud that cost the Council of Ontario Universities at least $600,000, said Paul Genest, the Council's executive director. The Globe and Mail reports that police were called and a forensic auditor retained in March, when the organisation found evidence that its former chief information officer Janet Donio - who has since committed suicide - was siphoning off COU funds.

Donio committed suicide last month, after the United Way of Greater Toronto suspended her from her post as a vice-president for information services and operational change, which she had taken in February, 2007. "The police opened a file, but they didn't proceed with charges because they hadn't received our completed audit," Mr. Genest said.
Full report on the Globe and Mail site