Yolanda Simao Humberto Simao And The Prolegal Scam

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Humberto Simao Criminal Story

Officer offered drug deal, court told, Humberto Simao One of the persons who did it

A Toronto immigration consultant has been found guilty of conspiracy, his name Humberto Simao

Humberto Simao criminal charges

Humberto Simao convicted for conspiring to import 10 kg of cocaine and immigration fraud

Original sources of the stories:

Officer offered drug deal, court told, Humberto Simao One of the persons who did it.

This article was published April 29 1993.

Humberto Simao of Toronto and Marcos Carlos Souza-Costa, formerly of Toronto but now living in Brazil, were charged with conspiracy to traffic and import cocaine by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers last July.

When [Kevin Payne] asked Simao how much money he wanted for his role in brokering the deal between Brazil and Toronto, Simao told him $2,000 to $2,500 per kilogram, he said.

A former Toronto immigration consultant told an undercover police officer he had contacts that could provide the officer with a weekly supply of 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of cocaine, a court has been told.

Souza-Costa is also charged with importing a prohibited weapon.

Sergeant Kevin Payne of the RCMP drug squad told Mr. Justice Ted Matlow yesterday that Simao thought he was a drug buyer.

According to Payne, Simao told him that "as much as 10 kilos a week every week could be available" from a source he had in Brazil.

Simao told him that, if he wanted to pick up the cocaine personally in Brazil, it would cost him $10,000 per kilogram. If not, it could also be shipped from Brazil in a piece of luggage, he testified in Ontario Court, general division.

"I told him I wouldn't go down myself, I wanted it delivered," Payne told court. "I wanted to have his man or his associate bring it to me."

When Payne asked Simao how much money he wanted for his role in brokering the deal between Brazil and Toronto,Simao told him $2,000 to $2,500 per kilogram, he said.

Payne testified that Simao also told him he was a cocaine user and had "supplied cocaine before at the ounce level" but not in such large quantities.

A Toronto immigration consultant has been found guilty of conspiracy, his name Humberto Simao

This article appeared May the 16 1993 in the Toronto Star.

Humberto Patricio Simao and co-accused Marcos Souza-Costa were found guilty Friday by Mr. Justice Ted Matlow after a two-week trial.

Simao and Souza-Costa were arrested last July after an undercover sting operation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a downtown restaurant.

Simao later took Souza-Costa to another meeting at the same restaurant. Besides the cocaine, Souza-Costa showed the undercover Mountie photographs of high-powered and illegal guns he could provide.

A Toronto immigration consultant has been found guilty of conspiracy to import and traffic in cocaine.

Humberto Patricio Simao and co-accused Marcos Souza-Costa were found guilty Friday by Mr. Justice Ted Matlow after a two-week trial.

They are to be sentenced June 7.

Simao and Souza-Costa were arrested last July after an undercover sting operation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in a downtown restaurant.

Sergeant Kevin Payne of the RCMP drug squad testified that he posed as a buyer during a meeting with Simao, who told him he could provide as much as 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of high-grade cocaine a week from a contact in Brazil.

Simao later took Souza-Costa to another meeting at the same restaurant. Besides the cocaine, Souza-Costa showed the undercover Mountie photographs of high-powered and illegal guns he could provide.

After finding the two men guilty, Matlow revoked Simao's $200,000 bail and ordered him jailed pending sentencing.

Souza-Costa, who earlier pleaded guilty to importing a prohibited weapon, has been in custody since his arrest.

In a separate matter, Simao is facing 67 fraud and forgery charges involving the alleged sale of Canadian documents to illegal immigrants and refugee applicants.

Simao is charged with 23 counts of making a false statement, 22 counts of uttering forged documents and 22 counts of aiding and abetting in the making of false statements at an immigration inquiry.

The RCMP say the charges stem from a two-year investigation into the use of government-issued job guarantees.

The forms, known as 2151s, were issued on the basis of bogus information and, in most cases, the jobs didn't exist, police say.

The forms were sold for as much as $2,000 apiece and were later used by refugee applicants at Canadian embassies abroad to gain access to Canada.

The crown plans to call more than 40 witnesses, including several immigration officials from consulates abroad.

A preliminary hearing into the charges is scheduled to start tomorrow at old city hall court

Humberto Simao Criminal Charges: Ex immigratino consultant faces 67 immigration charges of forgery

This news appeared in the newspaper Toronto Star o November 27 1993

The RCMP probe followed a series of Star stories depicting the widespread abuse of official government documents, commonly known as 2151s, by self-styled immigration consultants.

Humberto Patricio Simao faces 67 charges of forgery, uttering false documents, and aiding and abetting in the making of false statements at immigration inquiries.

Simao and fellow Brazilian, Marcos Souza-Costa, 41, were convicted in May of conspiracy to import and traffic 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of cocaine after they were arrested in an RCMP undercover sting.

A former Toronto immigration consultant serving 4 1/2 years for cocaine trafficking has been ordered to stand trial on dozens of immigration-related charges.

The charges stem from a two-year Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into the use of government-issued job guarantees to people seeking landed immigrant status in Canada.

The RCMP probe followed a series of Star stories depicting the widespread abuse of official government documents, commonly known as 2151s, by self-styled immigration consultants.

The Star stories revealed how immigrants used the forms, obtained on the basis of bogus information, to obtain landed status in Canada. For the most part, the jobs didn't exist.

Thirteen people were arrested by the RCMP following The Star's probe. They face almost 300 charges.

A special task force comprised of six RCMP officers is continuing its investigation of consultants, immigration officials and lawyers. More arrests are expected, police said.

Humberto Patricio Simao faces 67 charges of forgery, uttering false documents, and aiding and abetting in the making of false statements at immigration inquiries.

Simao, 40, formerly of Perth Ave., was committed for trial after a preliminary hearing. He will be in court Jan. 28 to set a date for trial.

Simao and fellow Brazilian, Marcos Souza-Costa, 41, were convicted in May of conspiracy to import and traffic 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of cocaine after they were arrested in an RCMP undercover sting.

Simao was sentenced in July to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Souza-Costa was imprisoned for 6 1/2 years for conspiracy to import cocaine and for importing a powerful handgun equipped with a silencer.

Police found the gun in his luggage at Pearson International Airport as he was returning from a trip to Brazil.

Humberto Simao convicted for conspiring to import 10 kg of cocaine and immigration fraud

This is the publication from the Toronto Star

His co-accused, Marcos Souza-Costa, who also hails from Brazil, was imprisoned for 6 1/2 years for conspiring to import the 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of cocaine and for importing a powerful handgun with a silencer on it.

[Kevin Payne] posed as a buyer and met in a downtown restaurant with [Humberto Patricio Simao], who told him he could get 10 kilograms of high grade cocaine every week from his contact in Brazil.

A Toronto immigration consultant has been imprisoned for 4 1/2 years for conspiring to import 10 kilograms of cocaine into Canada from his native Brazil.

Humberto Patricio Simao, 40, of Perth Ave., was found guilty two months ago by Mr. Justice Ted Matlow of Ontario Court, general division, and had his $200,000 bail revoked at that time. He was sentenced on Friday.

He still faces charges involving the alleged sale of Canadian documents to illegal immigrants and refugee applicants.

The conspiracy, which took place between February and July last year, involved Sergeant Kevin Payne of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police drug squad.

Payne posed as a buyer and met in a downtown restaurant with Simao, who told him he could get 10 kilograms of high grade cocaine every week from his contact in Brazil.

Souza-Costa, believed to be bringing the drugs in to Toronto, was arrested at Pearson International Airport. Although no drugs were found, the gun with the silencer was in his luggage, prosecutor Claude LeFrancois said.

Souza-Costa, 41, was in pre-trial custody for one year.

The two men were found guilty by the jury of putting together a deal to bring large amounts of the drug into the city. At the time Simao was in desperate financial difficulties, court was told.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Yolanda Simao Immigration Scam story

Yolanda Simao has been an immigration consultant who has had her fare share of controversy, she was found guilty of misconduct by the Canadian Society Of Immigration Consultants when an investigation report by the Toronto Star called Lost In Immigration was published, these series talked about the dark side of the immigration business in Canada, they showed several cases where innocent immigrants were abused by immigration consultants with shady practices.

Yolanda Simao was featured in the article called Freewheeling Recruiters, this article basically explains how 24 truck drivers where promised jobs paying up to $60,000 and language training in Canada.

Yolanda Simao was the person in charge to arrange the truck drivers job offers and work permits, she even wrote a letter to the truck drivers:

She never got job offers to the truck drivers nor get them work permits, and to top it all off, the Korean drivers paid English classes at Yolanda's school as per the article and in her testimony on the hearings of the disciplinary Council of the Canadian Society Of Immigration Consultants, here is a different (backup).

Yolanda Simao insists the trick drivers were not her clients nor her responsibility, but the disciplinary council thought differently and found her guilty of misconduct, see the decisions

here and here and the Toronto Start published the how she was found guilty of misconduct.

This has not been the first time Yolanda Simao has been in an Immigration controversy, she has had several problems with her behaviour, in 2012 they went to Portugal looking for construction workers and they even went to United States to promote their work two months after the leader of the construction union was saying this was not an opportunity but a scam, and making further investigation they saw that Yolanda Simao was already found guilty before of misconduct.