OSHAWA, ONT. – The fraud case against a former Kensington area Presbyterian minister is still in the pre-trail stage in the Ontario court system.
Harold Alan Stewart, 67, is facing 11 fraud-related charges in Durham Region Courthouse.
His case was called briefly on Dec. 4 but was rescheduled again until Dec. 14 for a further update.
The case has most recently been conducting a preliminary hearing,
Stewart was charged in November 2016, following an investigation Ontario police named Project Banshee.
Police allege that Stewart and his co-accused befriended the victim, eventually gained access to her credit card and took out a mortgage against her property.
The victim's losses were about $160,000.
The remaining charges against him include one count of fraud under $5,000, two counts of fraudulent use of credit card, four counts of fraud over $5,000, two counts of uttering a forged document, one count of laundering the proceedings of crime and one count of theft by power of attorney.
