Two men have been found liable by BC Supreme Court for creating fraudulent auto insurance claims and staging a vehicular collision, and have been ordered to pay the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) over $40,000 in damages.
According to court documents, Yasir Khayyoo approached Basim Mansur sometime in 2013 regarding Khayyoo’s need for money after his father’s death. Mansur, identified as “the initiator of the plot,” then told Khayyoo that he could “help him make money,” then hatched the plan to stage the collision, the ruling stated.
Just a few weeks later, both Iraqi-Canadians were involved in a collision that occurred on August 17, 2013 at an intersection in Surrey, BC, wherein Khayyoo smashed into the back of Mansur’s Porsche. After the collision, both men made personal injury claims to ICBC, with the insurer paying out a combined total of over $34,000.
ICBC, however, suspected that the crash was premediated due to its connection to two previous collisions – one of those incidents involved Mansur, and the other implicated Khayyoo’s brother.
Although ICBC alleged a strong connection among the three collision cases, Justice Michael Brundrett dismissed the other two allegations, citing a lack of evidence, in a ruling released last December, CBC News reported.
Mansur testified that he always tries to help the Iraqi community in BC.
“I find it reasonably probable that in his enthusiasm to help a fellow immigrant, Mr. Mansur went too far and concocted a plan to stage a car accident to benefit himself and Mr. Khayyoo,” Brundrett said in his ruling.
The judge also ordered Mansur to pay an additional $10,000 in punitive damages.
