Pool company CEO faces more fraud charges
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The chief executive officer of a Manitoba pool company who was already facing multiple counts of fraud was arrested again this week and charged with 11 additional offences.
Kurt Wittin, who was arrested by the RCMP cyber and financial crime unit Nov. 5 after an initial investigation by Headingley RCMP was charged with nine counts of fraud greater than $5,000 and was released from custody with conditions. After a second arrest Monday, Wittin was charged with 11 additional counts of fraud.
The financial losses suffered by the victims is more than $700,000, RCMP said in a news release.
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Seventeen Pools CEO Kurt Wittin has been charged with more counts of fraud, bringing the total to 20.Police said in November that Wittin — 55 at the time — had been under investigation since 2023 in numerous fraud complaints involving his company, Seventeen Pools.
“In each instance, customers sent payment for products that were never received,” RCMP said in a news release then.
The victims are from across Canada and the United States.
Police said in the fall that there might be others who had not yet spoken with investigators and asked anyone with information regarding Wittin or his companies — Seventeen Pools Inc., Seventeen Pools, 204 Container Pools and Kustom Container Builders — to contact the RCMP. They repeated that request Wednesday.
Seventeen Pools, located in Oak Bluff, just outside Winnipeg, started building pools out of shipping containers in 2012, its website states.
Wittin and his companies have faced a slew of lawsuits and small claims in Manitoba, many of which remain before the courts.
Most recently, a man from Malibu, Calif., self-filed a statement of claim against Wittin and Seventeen Pools in Court of King’s Bench last August.
The man alleges he entered into a contract with Wittin and the company in May of 2022 to have a container pool built on his property for US$35,000, which he paid in two lump sums that year.
The company didn’t deliver the pool and refused to reimburse him.
The filing is seeking judgment for $35,000, plus interests, damages and court costs.
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