Raj Grewal sues The Pointer for $12M over article that detailed how the law firm he founded is connected to a fraud investigation; websites of companies he started scrubbed after publication

Following the publication of a recent article highlighting investigations into fraudulent real estate transaction activities that involved representation by the law firm Raj Grewal founded, he is now suing The Pointer for $12 million.

On May 14, The Pointer reported that RSG Law, the firm founded by Grewal, a former Brampton Member of Parliament, had its bank account frozen under an order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Within 24 hours of the story’s publication, the website for RSG Law had been scrubbed of most of its content. Around the same time, a day after the article was posted, another company founded by Grewal, RSG Group, which was involved in real estate and property development projects and used the same Mississauga address as RSG Law (which was highlighted in The Pointer’s May 14 article), appears to have taken down its website.

Top: The website for RSG Group, which showed Raj Grewal as the company’s president and highlighted his work on “development” projects, was active on May 14, when The Pointer published an article. Bottom: After publication of the article an error message appears and the website cannot be found. The url also cannot be used to reach the RSG Group website that had previously been online.

Top: The RSG Law website as it appeared in December 2025. By mid-to-late January, Raj Grewal’s image and name had been removed from the website, but it remained largely unchanged until last week. Bottom: The RSG Law website today, Monday, May 25 has been reduced to a single Contact Us page. All the names of lawyers and other details of the firm and its activities were removed less than 24 hours after publication of The Pointer’s May 14 article. 

Brian Radnoff, a partner with Dickinson-Wright LLP, who leads a team that represents The Pointer, said the lawsuit is a classic SLAPP suit. 

“The Pointer intends to vigorously defend this lawsuit, which involves reporting over which there is a significant public interest,” said Radnoff, who has represented The Pointer since its launch in 2018. “The Pointer will seek to have the action struck as a ‘strategic lawsuit against public participation’.”

SLAPP suits are commonly used by entities to suppress journalism grounded in public interest reporting, with the hope that legal action will intimidate media outlets or force them to back down due to the financial requirements to defend such lawsuits. Radnoff has previously used Ontario’s anti-SLAPP legislation to successfully defend The Pointer.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently described SLAPPs as: “…lawsuits initiated against individuals or organizations that speak out or take a position on an issue of public interest. SLAPPs are generally initiated by plaintiffs who engage the court process and use litigation not as a direct tool to vindicate a bona fide claim, but as an indirect tool to limit the expression of others. In a SLAPP, the claim is merely a façade for the plaintiff, who is in fact manipulating the judicial system in order to limit the effectiveness of the opposing party’s speech and deter that party, or other potential interested parties, from participating in public affairs.”

Ontario’s Courts of Justice Act includes anti-SLAPP legislation that allows a judge to dismiss frivolous lawsuits in order to: “encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; to promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; to discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and to reduce the risk that participation by the public in debates on matters of public interest will be hampered by fear of legal action.”

In his $12 million lawsuit against The Pointer, Grewal claims the May 14 article ignored statements from RSG Law and the external lawyer representing the firm, Simon Bieber, which were provided prior to publication of the story which focussed on two court orders involving RSG Law, the firm Grewal founded. 

Grewal argues in his suit that Bieber, RSG Law’s lawyer, who is also representing him in his lawsuit against The Pointer, communicated prior to publication “that none of the court proceedings had anything to do with Grewal, that there were no allegations against him, that there had been no allegation that RSG was involved in misconduct, and that RSG had itself been caught up in an unfortunate set of circumstances.”

These comments appear in full inside The Pointer’s article.

Despite claims that Grewal was not part of RSG Law, The Pointer reported multiple pieces of evidence that show he was directly involved with RSG Law throughout the period covered by the court orders regarding fraudulent real estate transaction activities.

The article detailed how Nitan Waryah and his family had been caught in the middle after sending RSG Law $714,000 for the purchase of a family home. The money appears to have been frozen some time since the beginning of April after Scotiabank locked the account of RSG Law to investigate fraudulent activity.

When Mr. Waryah attempted to get answers about what happened to his family’s money, Raj Grewal told him he sold RSG Law two years ago and no longer had anything to do with the firm. In the same conversation Grewal also told Mr. Waryah he would personally handle the matter and get his money to him. 

That did not happen.

Grewal’s claim that he is not connected with RSG Law also does not align with Google reviews posted in recent months thanking Grewal personally for his legal assistance. The Google reviews disappeared about two weeks ago, a day after Waryah posted a negative review outlining his family’s experience and attaching the court documents showing how RSG Law was connected to the real estate transaction investigations. 

Grewal’s lawsuit makes a number of misleading claims about The Pointer’s article. 

He wrongly claims The Pointer “removed its paywall to ensure maximum readership of the Article.”

The Pointer has not had a paywall on any article since March of 2020. It is clearly noted at the bottom of every article that the paywall has been removed for “all stories”. 

Grewal claims his statements about his “relationship with RSG Law” were “truthful and consistent”. 

This is blatantly misleading.

The Pointer confirmed that Grewal informed Mr. Waryah that while he had no involvement with the day-to-day operations of RSG Law, after selling the firm two years ago, he would personally handle the payment of money owed by RSG Law. Google reviews posted in recent months mention Grewal personally for his work with RSG Law, and he was listed as the company’s principal lawyer on the RSG Law website recently, until it was changed sometime between December and January 21, when Grewal’s name and image were removed from the site, before it was almost entirely scrubbed the day after publication of The Pointer’s May 14 article.

An active Facebook account attributed to Raj Grewal still links directly to the RSG Law website. 

Raj Grewal’s Facebook page linking directly to the RSG Law website. 

Despite his claim that he sold RSG Law two years ago, numerous Google reviews (which have since been removed) mention Raj Grewal by name, thanking him for his legal assistance.

Business registry documents show Raj Grewal was the director of RSG Law between 2019 and 2024 when the registration expired. RSG Law was re-registered under RSG Law Professional Corporation in May 2025 with Davinder Singh Khattra, a lawyer with RSG Law, listed as a director. 

In July of 2025, a paid article appeared in the Toronto Star in which Grewal represented himself as RSG’s leader. Describing the unique business model of RSG Law, the sponsored article, published July 15 2025, reported this was “Raj Grewal’s vision for RSG Law.” It later includes a quote by Grewal: “We aim to be the last law firm a client ever needs.”

A sponsored article published in the Toronto Star in July of 2025 which features Raj Grewal’s photo as the company’s founder and principal lawyer.

(Toronto Star)

Immediately after publication of The Pointer’s story on May 14, the website for RSG Law, which previously included an About page, bios of the legal team, and a description of the services it provides, was reduced to a single Contact Us page. 

Despite Grewal’s attempt through his lawsuit to prevent The Pointer from publishing future articles about his involvement with RSG Law and its ongoing court matters, more reporting is being done on several of the numbered companies connected to the fraud investigations involving RSG Law detailed in the past reporting. 

The Pointer has made efforts to get comment from Grewal and lawyers at RSG Law, attending at its Mississauga office to get their side of the story. They have been unwilling to comment. Bieber told The Pointer’s lawyers on Friday that the police have been notified and a trespass notice will be issued in the future. 

Follow-up questions sent to Bieber for comment on behalf of Grewal, his RSG Group and RSG Law, were not responded to. 

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