Accused priest released on $5,000 bail

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime


Thu, April 24, 2008
Accused priest gets bail
UPDATED: 2008-04-24 01:59:24 MST

The elderly Catholic priest implicated in an alleged Calgary fraud scheme has been granted bail.

Provincial court Judge Bob Wilkins yesterday said Father Gilles Dube could return to his Quebec home pending trial.

Wilkins made the order after Crown prosecutor Photini Papadatou said she was not opposed to Dube's release if he posted $5,000 cash bail.

A condition of his release is that he stay with a priest in Calgary until travel arrangements can be made for his return to eastern Canada.

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Dube, 81, is charged along with two others with fraud in connection with a scheme which allegedly duped Alberta Dr. Frederick Van Rooyen out of $500,000.

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