Manitoba municipality loses half a million dollars in alleged e-transfer fraud

© epridnia - stock.adobe.com RCMP say they are investigating more than 30 suspicious transactions that began in April 2020 and involve more than $500,000 in funds of Gilbert Plains municipality. A municipality in western Manitoba has lost more than half a million dollars from its bank account in an alleged case of fraud involving multiple electronic transfers of funds. "Truthfully we were shocked that it did happen and to that extent," Gilbert Plains reeve Jim Manchur told CBC News. Gilbert Plains is not the only Manitoba municipality to suffer a major loss of funds from a bank account in recent years. Westlake-Gladstone municipality had over $472,000 withdrawn from its bank account in a series of unauthorized withdrawals in December 2019 and January 2020.