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Man charged in Calgary shooting was an ex employee of Conservatives’ main call centre

October 02, 2013 10:12 PM

Ottawa: A previous representative of the Conservative gathering's primary decision call focus organization has been accused of endeavored homicide in association with a 2008 shooting in Calgary.

 

Nicholas Orestus Paul Anastassiades, of Surrey, B.C., was accused in July of endeavored homicide, as well as an alternate B.C. man, Devan Kayle Rene Cunliffe, 27.

 

Anastassiades, 44, had worked in the Burnaby office of Responsive Marketing Group (RMG), the firm procured by the Conservatives to do much of its raising support and voter contact in the 2011 crusade.

 

RMG's representatives routinely handle charge card data to process altruistic gifts and commitments made to its stable of political gathering customers, which has likewise incorporated the B.C. Liberals and Alberta's Wild Rose Alliance.

 

Andrew Langhorne, CEO of RMG's guardian organization, imarketing Solutions Group, said the organization had no learning of any claimed guiltiness.

 

"The things you reference don't have anything to do with his past work with us," Langhorne said in a message. "We have no information of these occasions."

 

Anastassiades last worked for the firm in 2012 and was not in an administration position, Langhorne said.

 

Refering to security, Langhorne declined to give more insights about Anastassiades' work with the organization.

 

Anastassiades is likewise accused of various include of duplicity and robbery British Columbia in a case disconnected to his business at RMG.

 

Langhorne said the organization takes steps to ensure the individual data of contributors.

 

"We have various efforts to establish safety set up to ensure classified purchaser data we gather incorporating the screening and screening of all our representatives."

 

Consistent with Calgary police, two men endeavored to murder a man in his 40s in Calgary in September 2008 as he rose up out of his auto. The victimized person was known to the men through a common debate in British Columbia, police said.

 

The victimized person was brought to clinic with life-undermining wounds yet later recuperated.

 

Calgary police said they worked with the RCMP and Vancouver police to understand the case and capture the men in the Lower Mainland.

 

Anastassiades, otherwise called "Nicholas Anastas," knew the folks of the chump and had tried to swindle them in B.C., police said at a question and answer session in July.

 

"Our chump came to be attentive to these circumstances and he initiated movement thoughtfully to put a stop to it and we accept that is the rationale in this shooting," said a police agent.

 

B.C. court records show Anastassiades was sued in 2008 by an elderly Burnaby couple who guaranteed he had swindled them in a property bargain, had utilized their charge cards without their authorization and had produced the man's signature on a cheque.

 

Anastassiades denied the cases however a judge later requested the property exchanged again to the couple.

 

Online court records likewise show that Anastassiades has been accused of two checks of cheating over $5,000 and one include of robbery over $5,000 New Westminster, B.C.

 

RMG was drawn into the discussion over the 2011 robocalls issue when a previous RMG call focus representative affirmed she had given off base data about survey areas to voters.

 

Her cases were refered to in a court test of the decision comes about by the Council of Canadians. In any case, the judge in the case said her memories were indistinct and negated by RMG's proof, which he said obviously demonstrated the organization did not make calls to individuals who didn't back the Conservatives.

 

imarketing Solutions Group is at present working under Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act insurance, which is planned to lapse Friday.

 

The organization will be in court in Toronto on Thursday on a movement for a two-week augmentation to permit more of an opportunity to wrap up an arrangement with a potential purchaser, as per court filings.

 

 

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