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Chapter 1: How was Achille Currado scammed for $400,000?
I was a good cop who got conned by one of the smartest guys in the world. Looking back on the story, I feel like a fool. Something I deal with every day. How could I let that happen? How could I let this guy destroy my life? Darko Jovanovic, the time I met him, he was a fraudster from Windsor. He had convinced people for like two years that he was a doctor. He was doing like analysis and stuff.
Chapter 2: Who is Darko Jovanovic and what were his scams?
He was scamming people, tens of thousands of dollars. I think there was like 17 victims and he just didn't care. Like, you know, he, he had one of the victims was a young girl and he said that she had a brain lesion and he said, and he said, he claimed that he had like, um, uh, ability to kind of, he had like privileges across in Detroit.
So he diagnosed this girl with a brain lesion and then told the family, look, you know, I set up an MRI and treatment for you in Detroit. It costs $58,000. I think it was, you can, I've already paid for it. You can, you can pay me in like, you know,
know every month or something like that right and so he gets convicted he does a little bit of jail time they come in canada they don't give a lot of people i think he did eight months or something and then he was in london now when i met him he introduced himself to me as aaron barack and he said he was an engineer and how i met him was i was selling my car and i live in an okay neighborhood
had like an old lexus rx that i needed to kind of sell and and uh so he calls me and says hey look i'm uh i'm an engineer i'm busy i've got my own consulting company um you know i'd like to you know take a look at your car can i come next week and i said yeah no problem you know like just call me back and other people are interested so comes back the week after And calls me up and pulls up.
He's driving like a, like a mint Lexus LS. I think it was a 400, 450, whatever it was. It was an older one, but it was like pristine. And he comes up and gives him the story. Actually showed up, said he was Israeli. Said that he was Jewish, Israeli, whatever. And he brought a bottle of wine. you know, to see the car. I'm like, man, that's strange. He goes, oh, I'm Israeli. That's what we do.
We don't show up to people's houses without something. I'm like, oh, okay. You know, I've never met an Israeli before. So you're telling me that. And so he looks at the car and he's like, oh, yeah, I'm very interested. You know, it's for my stepson going through a divorce. But, you know, I want to make sure my stepson has a car. So he goes, but I'll call you back and I'll come back and see it.
So he befriends me. To make a long story short, he befriends me. I don't tell him much about who I am. But he wants to get together. He wants to meet over lunch about his divorce and stuff. He's going through a rough time. So we become friends. And he's a nice enough guy. And eventually, actually, I meet his mom.
And the funny part of this whole story is that his mom kind of supports everything he says. And his mom's like, she said she was 80. She's probably like 65 or whatever. She said she was a Holocaust survivor, you know.
Probably never been to Germany.
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Chapter 3: What role did Julianna Greenspan play in the scam?
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Um, but just to get back to Julianna for a second. Um, so after I found out that it was defrauded, I also emailed her and called her office and sent her email saying, look, you know, if you know this Darko Jovanovic, you know, he's defrauded me. He's probably doing the same to you kind of thing. Send her like three, four emails, never got a response. Called, left messages, never got a response.
Never got a return phone call. You know, she went, when the police went to speak to her after this was all said and done, she was kind of hiding under privilege, behind privilege, saying, oh, I can't really speak about it. I'm not going to really talk about it. Not saying that she knew a lot.
But, you know, the officer, when he was one officer, Kim Halliday, who was on the stand, who was being questioned by the crown, he's like, the crown's like, oh, obviously she didn't know anything about this. He goes, well, on the stand, he's like, well, when you talk to her, when we talked to her, she did know something. She just didn't really say what. And she didn't really cooperate.
They wanted her to read the text messages. I don't think she did. You know, and they weren't worried about Julianna Greenspan or whatever. Well,
So let's go back to the 1800. So let's move forward from there. So, cause you jumped forward a little bit. So.
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Chapter 4: How did the manipulation unfold?
okay i'm kind of embarrassed to even talk about this a bit but i thought this guy was like in dire need you know what i mean like i thought and i thought he was good for it because hey he he lived in a million dollar home right drove a mercedes s-class when i newer mercedes s-class when i met him he had like a couple other cars and then he was a car buff and he said that his wife he had like all these other cars that his wife took in the divorce or the separation
and later it all comes down to the fact that his ex-wife was in cahoots with this sf guy and gg guy to take his money and to force him to do what they wanted him to do and they even target like he even had a story where in the moment along with this that she needed surgery because she had a i think a stomach tumor or something pancreatic cancer some tumor or whatever she was going to die
So she has surgery at the local hospital. And he had me believing that this SF guy paid the doctor to botch the surgery. And then he said that he found another doctor that worked at, I don't know if it was the same hospital. We have two hospitals in the city.
was israeli that he could trust that it redo the surgery and then you know um had fixed the problem whatever and that he had to get his mom out of the hospital because he was worried you know that some something's going to happen to her so he had to hire a private nurse and i mean and in order to keep her safe and and i sent you some photos and those photos you'll see like she's at the hospital
know there's photos of her at the hospital but maybe she went there for a headache yeah maybe she had a real surgery but he saw an opportunity to take advantage of the situation right
100%, man, 100%. And so my head was always spinning. Like, you know, everything's always my fault. You know, Julianna's saying, oh, we're going to make these arrests. We've got all this evidence. It's coming up. And I want to meet with you. We're always supposed to meet. I'm always supposed to go down there and meet her. She's coming to London to meet.
But every time she calls and says, oh, you know, Uncle Brian had a heart attack or some other crazy thing happened and Darko's in need. And then Darko was sick because he had PTSD. Then he had this rare blood disease and he had an enlarged heart and they're trying to keep him alive. It doesn't sound like he's alive, Matt. What's happening?
Sounds like his heart is five times too small. I'm trying to think of what this Dr. Seuss says. His heart is too small. Well, what are some of the other I need additional money? I don't understand because a couple thousand dollars is one thing. So every time he's got a problem, he needs money. He says, Hey, I need 20 grand for this 80 for this. Like, how does it get up so high?
Um, they're like, I'd have to read through all those text messages and that's just too much for me to do that. But for example, looking at me, like his mom, he said was Israeli and she never became a Canadian citizen. So you can't get a pocket.
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Chapter 5: When did Achille start to realize something was wrong?
Like, you know, don't listen to what the other inspector said to you. It's not going to affect it. Okay, so Omar, he applies, like a year later, I think, or a year or two later to become a sergeant. And, you know, the process to become a sergeant, They changed it. So there's an exam you write at the police college. There's an application you have to fill out. And then there's the interview.
And the interview is like the smallest part. So Omar probably maxed, I think he got the highest mark at the college on the test. And he probably maxed out on the application because they take into account like, you know, education. Omar had like an honors economics degree. Omar is a very articulate guy, one of the smartest guys I know. uh, new actually.
And, and you know, lateral transfers, what kind of experience do you have? So he goes into the interview and literally he could have probably like shit his pants in there and answer it. Only answer half the questions. He should have been promoted, but he does well on the interview. He thinks, and they don't promote him. And I told him, I said, look, man, they're not gonna promote you.
Like they're never, You think that they're not gonna hold this against you. I work with these guys in recruiting. I know how they talk. I know how they, how they take it personally when you stand up to stand up to them. You know what I mean? Like you, I'm like, man, you should have just, you know, maybe settled for, you know, more money or just left policing.
If your role, if your goal is to become, you know, move up the ranks, cuz it's not gonna happen. Well, fast forward to a few years later, like they put them on the street. Omar's having a good time on the street. Like, you know, he's the guys love him. I mean, like he's very charismatic. Anyway, he goes to this call and I remember I was working at the time as an auditor at the time.
And this is around the time when Darko was, you know, obviously defrauding me, whatever, but I was still working. And I read the call notes of this call and I read his report and the call notes came in. It was multiple calls of some guy standing in the street in front of a coffee shop with a rifle and, and, and army gear pointing this thing around like at people. So Omar says,
He's the first guy on scene. And I know a lot of guys that probably would have driven around the block three times because they're afraid to go to this call, but that's not Omar. Omar, one of the bravest guys I know as well. We worked two sections together on the street, and any guy I want covering my back was him. So he gets there. He's the first guy on the scene.
He sees the guy who has something that looks like, resembles a rifle, throw it down, and he runs. So Omar chases the guy down. And he, reading his report, he chases him down and he arrests the guy. But the guy's like resisting, right? The guy's not giving up his hand. So it has to be a little bit rough with him. He'd ran to this like a motel or whatever that had video surveillance.
and so he finally cuffs the guy runs the guy finds out that it wasn't a rifle it was like a umbrella that looked like a samurai sword and so he sees that this guy's like got a mental illness he's got a problem so he he takes the guy to the hospital to get checked out he doesn't charge him right and
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Chapter 6: What actions were taken to confront Darko Jovanovic?
Well, a couple of days later, I'm like, Oh, maybe it's that affidavit. So anyway, fast forward, we get disclosure and that's exactly what happened in disclosure. They call it a manifesto and disclosure. Darko is the one that brings it to them and gives it to the investigators. and obviously go straight to the administration. Right?
So you know, what I'm saying is like, hey, if I was somebody else, I probably wouldn't even got charged. If I didn't write that document. I may have not been charged. Darko may have been the one that was was charged because of that document. And because of what Darko was trying to expose. Most of it was bullshit. Right? they end up charging me and letting him go free.
But
the guilty mind I did have was trying to expose the corruption within the department. And that's the issue. And like anybody that stands up to them, like whether it's Omar or whether it's somebody else, countless number of other people, like you can be a pedophile and they'll cover up for you.
You can, there's a, there's a, there's a, a guy that, you know, him and his buddy, this one cop and his buddy, this has happened when I just got on the department. him and his buddy have a 17-year-old escort come over, and they sleep with her or whatever. She finds out, I think, the one guy's a cop, and so she makes a complaint.
So he doesn't get charged criminally, and they opt to just go under the PSA, the Police Services Act, right, to charge him under that. So he doesn't lose his job, though. He gets demoted for a bit. But do you want a guy like that? being a cop in this in the city. And the worst part about this Matt is that his wife was a cop and she was at work at the time when all this happened.
So like, I don't want to get into like, you know, sounding like I'm, I'm using this as a soundboard to complain about the London police. I'm just saying like policing in general, whether it's an institutional or whether it's, it's the whole justice system is flawed. And I mean, the whole justice system It's not for you or me, man. It's for the people that are involved in that.
It's for furthering their careers often. You find very few people up at the high ranks that really care. I know a few people, but most of the time, they want more money. They want more power. They want control. They want notoriety. You name it.
What ends up happening with Darko? I mean, they charge you, you go to trial, right? Or is it a hearing? Or is it like a trial?
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