Quebec Court Judge Yves Paradis has delayed his decision on sentencing for a Canada Revenue Agency auditor convicted of soliciting and accepting a bribe from a Plateau Mont-Royal restaurant.
Elias Kawkab, 55, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday afternoon at the Montreal courthouse. He is facing the possibility of a 15-month prison term for having negotiated a $100,000 bribe from the manager and the owners of the Arahova restaurant on St-Viateur St. W. in 2008. He later returned half the bribe money after the owners learned other Montreal-area restaurants had been extorted for bribes by other CRA auditors.
Instead of delivering his decision on Friday, Paradis pushed back the sentence date to March 26. In June, Kawkab pleaded guilty to committing a fraud on the government and breach of trust.
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