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Lions Gate's leap year baby Curtis Shard

WENDY SHARD cuddles leap year baby Curtis Stephan William, born at Lions Gate Hospital at 5:35 a.m. on Feb. 29.
Husband Robert and three-vear-old Clinton are happy with the family addition. Curtis is happy too. Perhaps he will age
at a rate much slower then the rest of us because he will have a birthday only once every four years.

A NORTH Vancouver acceuntant was
scheduled to face sentencing Wednesday
for defrauding Revenue Canada of $4
million in emplvyee deductions,

By Brent Mudry
Contributing Writer

But Douglas Ivan Mills failed to appear in
court. A bench warrant was consequently
issucd for Mills’ arrest. To press time, Crown
counsel recommended that the warrant be
issued Canada-wide.

Mills was convicted earlier this month on
seven counts of tax fraud and tax evasion. He
was the chief financial officer of Executive
Security Services Lid., which lost its security
contract, for Canada’s major airports and
entered bankruptcy in the wake of his fraudu-
lent scheme.

Mills was found to have
$520,000 from Executive.

embezzled

Warrant issued for
N. Van accountant
involved in tax case

Unreported income amounted to $385,000.
His convictions include failing to declare gains
on tax retums for 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991.

Mills resigned from the Chartered
Accountants Association of B.C. in April 1994
after a probe of his false personal tax retums.

Mills” get-rich-quick tax fraud scheme
began shortly after he joined Executive as its
in-house chief financial officer in 1989.

Executive won a bid to provide security at
Toronto’s Pearson International Airport,
Montreal’s Dorval airport, and several other
major airports across the country, including
Vancouver.

Mills initially remitted deductions for B.C.
employees only, although he began adding a

few out-of-piovince employees to the official
tax payroll in subsequent years.

Revenue Canada’s suspicions grew: it
ordered three separate payroll audits in the
four-year period. The first two audits uncov-
ered relatively minor discrepancies, but the full
extent of Mills’ scheme was kept hidden.

On the third audit, Mitls and his staff
tepeatedly stalled tax officials by falsely claim-
ing that previous years’ records were stored
off-site, At trial, several of Mills’ staff testifted
that he told them to lic to Revenue Canada offi-
cials.

While Revenue Canada still seeks remit-
tance of the disputed funds, Executive presi-
dent John Grady of North Vancouver and part-
ner Arne Olsen are the biggest losers.

Olsen sold out his founding ownership of
Imperial Parking and bought 90% of Executive
just before Mills embarked on his scheme.
Executive filed for bankruptcy in November.

The current company is a mere shadow of
its former self.