Today, Canadian Press VANCOUVER - An accountant has been charged with
embezzling more than $1 million from a Vancouver non-profit organization
that promotes justice and democratic principles. Janet Mercedes Bayda worked on a contract
basis for 18 years for the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform
and Criminal Justice Policy. The centre accuses Bayda of taking the
money by creating false entries in the accounts of the organization to
conceal cheques that went to her. She was fired in December 2011 when the
alleged fraud was detected and the police were called in, and resigned
as a registered chartered accountant last month. The centre says Bayda has since returned
$425,000 and the organization is trying to recover more of the money,
while also implementing new accounting procedures to prevent a repeat of
the crime. The International Centre for Criminal Law
Reform was founded in 1991 to promote democracy, the rule of law and
criminal justice principles in Canada and around the world.
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