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Genetic testing centre closesThe Canadian PressSASKATOONA genetic testing centre that opened with great fanfare two months ago closed suddenly last week, just hours after its founder was arrested by police for parole violations on a fraud conviction.For more than a year, Nicholas Bonamy, a fraud artist with a long list of convictions, regularly assured his Saskatoon parole officer he was abiding by the terms of his release. But outside the parole office, Bonamy became Nicolas Grimaldi, a computer whiz and master geneticist who convinced the Saskatoon scientific community and local investors to create a fee-for-service genetic testing and disease research company.The Saskatoon GenoCentre opened Oct. 4 with Grimaldi as president. After his arrest last Thursday, the doors werelocked on the Queen Street business and the staff fired.Grimaldi is now at Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert. The commercial crime section of Saskatoon police is investigating a complaint against him.“It has come as a complete shock to everybody who has had any association with this company, said Paul Grant, a lawyer for Saskatoon GenoCentre.“People are sort of reeling and trying to collect the facts and respond accordingly. This is all news to investors, directors, shareholders, employees.Nicholas Yvon Bonamy, 53, is well known at the Canadian University College in Lacombe. Over a nine-month span in the early 1990s, Bonamy stole $914,395 from the institution.College president Reo Ganson said Bonamy worked as a computer programmer under contract for the college.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Thu, Dec 06, 2001
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