CMEDIA: A man reportedly from Edmonton accused of operating an alleged $7.8-million Ponzi scheme has drowned in a B.C. river.
Last summer Curtis Quigley, 56, and his former common-law spouse Kathleen Treadgold, were jointly charged with 80 counts of fraud over $5,000.
The allegations against Quigley and Treadgold have not been proven in court.After turning himself in to Edmonton police in August 2023, Quigley had been out on bail.
Seven months before his criminal fraud trial was set to start in Edmonton, Quigley got drowned on June 20 in the Okanagan River, a community about 60 kilometres south of Kelowna, B.C.
A volunteer fire chief, Tony Iannella was reported saying that according to two witnesses the man was walking two dogs along a trail by the river when the dogs saw a deer and jumped into the water to chase it near an area where there’s a concrete drop structure.
The dogs got caught in it, the witnesses said and the man went in after them.
When the man was pulled from the water he couldn’t be revived.
