Overview
- RCMP charged Ibrahim El-Hakim, 23, with fraud over $5,000, unauthorized use of a computer, identity theft and trafficking in identity information.
- Police allege he used RBC’s internal systems to view several clients’ profiles, including Carney’s, for criminal purposes.
- The investigation was assigned to the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, with no indication of a national-security threat.
- RBC says it identified the unauthorized access, alerted authorities, cooperated with investigators and dismissed the employee.
- El-Hakim was arrested on July 10, released with conditions, appeared in court on Aug. 6 and is due back Oct. 1, as media report an unconfirmed Telegram-based scheme that offered C$500 per task.