Saskatoon police on Wednesday had said that their two-year investigation began after they received a report that falsified banking documents were submitted with several mortgage applications at a local bank.
Police then searched three locations and said the search resulted in the seizure of more fraudulent documents connected to mortgage applications at other financial institutions. According to his LinkedIn profile and posts on his Facebook page, Kamanashis Deb had worked for Royal LePage Varsity. In a January 2011 Regina Leader-Post story, Kamanashis Deb, was part owner of restaurants in Osler and Waldheim. Originally from Bangladesh, he first moved to Montreal and then in 2006 to Saskatchewan. He told the Leader-Post he had trained in tourism, hotel management and food preparation in Switzerland. He took a job at a restaurant in Osler and then, with a partner, bought the restaurant.