Law firm founded by Raj Grewal, and a company directed by his father accused of fraud & conspiracy in explosive $5.5M lawsuit over land deal

The Mississauga law firm founded by former Brampton MP Raj Grewal, and a numbered company directed by his father, Avtar Singh Grewal, are at the centre of a $5.5 million lawsuit alleging they carried out a conspiracy to defraud the plaintiff of millions of dollars after a land deal in the Brantford area in 2025. 

Avtar Singh Grewal and the two other co-directors of his numbered company allegedly conspired with RSG Law, the firm led by his son at the time, to fraudulently avoid paying off the multi-million-dollar mortgage that remained on the property.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

The statement of claim was filed by WIGI Restructured Bond Corporation, a global real estate asset management company that has about $6 billion in holdings. Its lawsuit was filed on May 25 after several weeks of legal action through the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to settle the matter was unsuccessful. 

Court documents outline injunction applications from WIGI, which also goes by the name Walton, to freeze the accounts of Avtar Singh Grewal and the other directors of his numbered company, RSG Law and one of the firm’s lawyers, Davinder Khattra, collectively described in the lawsuit as the “Fraudulent Defendants” who allegedly lied about a land sale transaction and “absconded” with the plaintiff’s money. 

Recent endorsements under a court order from Justice Fred Myers required the law firm founded by Raj Grewal to produce documents showing where millions of dollars from the land deal were sent. Myers wrote in one of his orders that Avtar Singh Grewal, his partners, RSG Law and its lawyer Davinder Khattra were part of a “dishonest scheme”. 

In his May 1 order, Myers, in a sternly worded admonishment regarding his previously ignored court order on April 23, wrote that, “I am very concerned that the law firm has yet to provide any of the information sought. It has not confirmed if it froze any of its trust funds as ordered. It has not disclosed what it did with the funds it received that ought to have been referrable to the plaintiff’s mortgage. It has let days go by for funds to be moved again if someone were inclined to do so.”

In his earlier order, on April 23, Myers wrote, referring to the repeated attempts by RSG Law and its client, Avtar Singh Grewal’s company, to delay the process going back to last year, that a “suspicious person might suggest that they were buying time to deflect attention and perhaps move the money.”

After repeatedly avoiding payment since last June, a settlement agreement had been reached on May 15 that would have seen Avtar Singh Grewal immediately pay $1 million, followed by approximately $3.3 million on May 22 to resolve the matter. 

Avtar Grewal immediately defaulted on the court ordered agreement, triggering the lawsuit that was filed with Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice on Monday, May 25.

No statement of defence has been filed, yet. Lawyers representing some of the defendants did not comment. 

Lawyers for WIGI declined to comment further on the statement of claim, which alleges a coordinated fraud and conspiracy carried about by Avtar Singh Grewal, Arandeep Grewal, Amrinder Singh Mangat—the three directors of 1000234566 Ontario Inc.—RSG Law Professional Corporation, its lawyer/director Davinder Khattra, and several other individuals and numbered companies that received proceeds from the multi-million dollar land sale carried out in June of 2025. 

Those funds were first allegedly dispersed by RSG Law to numbered companies connected to Avtar Singh Grewal (who is Raj Grewal’s father), Arandeep Grewal (it’s unclear if there is any family relation; Grewal is a common name) and Mangat, with a total of $8.8 million given directly to Avtar Grewal, the statement of claim alleges. 

In total, 15 companies and individuals are named in the statement of claim. 

The lawsuit alleges Avtar Grewal’s company’s directors, RSG Professional Law Corporation and Khattra are liable for “breach of contract, breach of duty of good faith and honest performance, fraud, deceit, conspiracy, unjust enrichment, conversion, breach of trust, fraudulent conveyance.”

It’s unclear if criminal charges could arise from the civil litigation; or from other evidence in the matters; or from other complaints against RSG Law that are not part of WIGI’s dispute. There is currently at least one other investigation into RSG Law’s bank account transactions, with connections to individuals associated with Raj Grewal. 

The lawyer for Arandeep Grewal and Amrinder Singh Mangat did not respond to questions from The Pointer after the release of the statement of claim on May 25. 

David Milosevic with Milosevic & Associates is representing RSG Law, Khattra and Avtar Singh Grewal. He declined to answer questions. 

“Given the active litigation, my clients won’t be providing any comments on the pending court proceedings,” he wrote in an emailed statement.

Questions sent to Simon Bieber, the lawyer representing Raj Grewal, were not answered. 

He previously told The Pointer that Raj Grewal was not involved in the WIGI matter and that “RSG was unwittingly caught in an unfortunate set of circumstances.” Bieber is not representing RSG Law Professional Corporation in the lawsuit filed May 25. 

The explosive allegations came forward after reporting in The Pointer detailed how RSG Law is connected to a separate fraud investigation that involves the freezing of the firm’s Scotiabank accounts, launched after the bank flagged more than $6 million in fake cheques, and millions of apparently fraudulently derived funds that ended up in RSG Law’s bank accounts. Scotiabank was granted an injunction to freeze the law firm's accounts on April 28. The fake cheques were deposited April 14 and 15. 

Bieber told The Pointer that Scotiabank did not make any allegations of wrongdoing against RSG Law and that “RSG has instead been caught up in an unfortunate set of circumstances.”

Following that reporting, the websites of RSG Law and Raj Grewal’s associated development company, RSG Group, were scrubbed a day after publication of the article. The RSG Law website was reduced to a single “Contact Us” page with all the information about its lawyers and their activities removed, while the RSG Group site disappeared entirely. Google reviews for RSG Law were removed from the search engine. 

Top: Up until some point between December and January 21, the RSG Law website still featured Raj Grewal as its “Principal Lawyer” and included photos of the firm’s lawyers, their bios and information about the firm’s activities. By the end of January, Grewal was no longer shown on the website. Bottom: After reporting in The Pointer on May 14 detailed RSG Law’s connection to a pair of fraud investigations, the company scrubbed almost all of its website content, removing staff photos, their bios, descriptions of their work and several other pages the day after the article was published.

Despite Raj Grewal’s claim that he is no longer involved with the day-to-day operation of RSG Law, The Pointer published evidence he was its leader when the land deal last June unfolded, and as recently as two weeks ago was working directly on matters for RSG Law related to its recent legal troubles.  

Following the reporting, Raj Grewal filed a $12 million lawsuit against The Pointer which the publication’s lawyers intend to have struck down as a classic SLAPP suit. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation 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. 

Raj Grewal, a former Brampton East MP who resigned in 2019 after publicly acknowledging a gambling addiction that led to millions of dollars in personal debt and frequent trips to an Ottawa casino while he was supposed to be representing his constituents, claims he has distanced himself from the day-to-day operation of RSG Law and has nothing to do with the current legal problems that have embroiled the firm he founded and his father. Avtar Singh Grewal was represented in the controversial land deal by RSG Law when his son acknowledged being the leader of the firm. The firm’s name stands for his initials, Rajvinder (his full first name) Singh Grewal. 

He is not named as a defendant in the $5.5 million lawsuit filed this week against the firm he started, his father and other defendants. His name only appears in the statement of claim as the founder of RSG Law and the son of Avtar Singh Grewal. It makes no allegations of wrongdoing against Raj Grewal. 

At the time of the land deal central to the lawsuit, Raj Grewal was listed as RSG’s principal lawyer on the company’s website, Google reviews about the firm up until two months ago personally thanked him for his legal work, and a sponsored article about RSG Law published in the Toronto Star in July 2025 features a photo of Raj Grewal and credits him as the founder and leader of the firm with direct quotes from him about RSG Law. The paid article was published a month after the property sale at the heart of the lawsuit filed against RSG Law and Grewal’s father, Avtar. 

In September 2020 Grewal was charged by the RCMP with fraud and breach of trust during his time as an MP. In March 2023, he was found not guilty of using his MP position to solicit loans to cover his gambling debts. 

His lawyer, Simon Bieber, did not respond to requests for comment about the lawsuit filed against RSG Law. When contacted previously about the earlier court orders that involve the law firm, Bieber told The Pointer that Raj Grewal has nothing to do with the matters. 

Raj Grewal is a former Brampton MP who resigned in 2019. He claims to have distanced himself from RSG Law, the firm he founded which still bears his initials, but evidence reported previously by The Pointer shows he has been directly involved with the day-to-day affairs of the firm as its ongoing legal problems unfold.

(The Pointer files) 

At the centre of the WIGI lawsuit against RSG Law, Avtar Singh Grewal and the other defendants is a piece of property in Brant County called Bell Meadows. 

The nearly 100-acre parcel just south of Brantford was purchased by Mangat in April 2023 for $5.2 million. Davinder Khattra, who still works as a lawyer for RSG Law and is accused of fraud, conspiracy, deceit, breach of trust, fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract in the lawsuit, was Mangat’s legal representation for the transaction.

None of the allegations have been proven in court. Khattra’s lawyer said no comment would be provided as the matter is now subject to active litigation. 

Mangat immediately transferred his interest in the property to 1000234566 Ontario Inc. Arandeep Grewal, Mangat and Avtar Singh Grewal, Raj Grewal’s father, are listed as active directors of the company which was registered in June 2022. Avtar Grewal is listed as the company’s president and secretary in business registration documents.

As part of the sale agreement, 70 percent of the purchase price was deferred for three years with a vendor-take-back (VTB) mortgage offered by WIGI, the seller, which funded the purchase of the land that was transferred to Avtar Singh Grewal and his partners as the new owners.

According to the statement of claim, this was one of several land deals between Mangat and WIGI in that part of Ontario; an adjacent property called Riverbend East was part of another transaction. Khattra also represented Mangat in that purchase. 

Sometime shortly after Bell Meadows was purchased by Mangat and 1000234566 Ontario Inc., the Ontario Land Registry office was updating the land title for the property and the approximately $3.6 million VTB mortgage was mistakenly deleted.

“It made an administrative mistake and did not carry forward the mortgage,” the statement of claim explains.
It wasn’t until three years later, as the term of the VTB mortgage expired in April 2026, that WIGI would become aware of the error, and Avtar Singh Grewal, Arandeep Grewal, Mangat and RSG Law allegedly took advantage of that clerical error to defraud the company that held the mortgage, which was supposed to be paid back.

In June last year, 1000234566 Ontario Inc. sold the Bell Meadows and Riverbend East properties to a single developer. 

Khattra represented the company in that deal. 

WIGI was not informed of the sale, and the mortgage was not paid off. 

According to the statement of claim, Khattra told WIGI officials in the spring of last year that 1000234566 Ontario Inc. planned to pay off the mortgage for both Bell Meadows and Riverbend East on June 18, 2025. 

“This coincided with the planned closing date of the sale of both of those properties, as required by the due-on-sale provision of both mortgages,” the statement of claim explains. 

It was at this time, the statement of claim alleges, that Khattra, or the directors with 1000234566 Ontario Inc. “learned (or ought to have learned)” of the deleted VTB mortgage at the Ontario Land Registry. 

Reviewing title documents would have been a normal part of the sale process. 

“This omission would, or should not have been and was not missed by these parties, as the mortgage would have been a prominent feature for (Avtar Singh Grewal, Mangat and Arandeep Grewal) the defendants in contemplating any sale of the properties in this way,” the statement of claim emphasizes. “Indeed, they were aware of and prepared the necessary documentation with respect to the vendor-take-back mortgage on Riverbend East, and thus would have been and were well aware that a similar mortgage was due on the adjacent property being sold, the Bell Meadows Lands.” 

Instead of informing WIGI that the VTB mortgage on Bell Meadows was missing from the land title, the statement of claim alleges, “the Fraudulent Defendants instead lied about the sale of the Bell Meadows Lands and thereby avoided paying (WIGI) and its investors the amounts owing under the mortgage.” 

The statement of claim labels 1000234566 Ontario Inc., Avtar Singh Grewal, Arandeep Grewal, Amrinder Singh Mangat, RSG Law and Davinder Khattra, collectively as the “Fraudulent Defendants”.

“The Fraudulent Defendants created a scheme to take advantage of the administrative error. Instead of telling Walton the truth and using the sale proceeds to pay back the mortgage, as required, the Fraudulent Defendants instead misled Walton and absconded with Walton’s money. Through Mr. Khattra, the Fraudulent Defendants lied to Walton by informing it that the sale had been delayed until September, even though the property in fact was sold to a third party on June 18, 2025. They then repeated the lie throughout the fall of 2025 when Walton followed up about the status of the property.”

While Raj Grewal was still listed on RSG Law’s website as its principal lawyer, and a month before publication of his paid article in the Toronto Star describing him as the firm’s leader, on June 18, 2025, Khattra signed the deal for the sale of the land, and almost $11.7 million for the two properties was transferred to RSG Law. Khattra and RSG Law then dispersed these funds, including $2 million to 2868127 Ontario Inc. (a numbered company with four directors, two of whom are Mangat and Arandeep Grewal); $175,000 to 2796182 Ontario Inc. (Mangat is the sole director); and more than $8.8 million to Avtar Singh Grewal, the statement of claim highlights. Avtar Grewal then immediately started transferring these funds to numerous other companies and individuals, beginning on June 19 up until June 30.

On June 26, 2025, Avtar Singh Grewal sent $550,000 of the funds to an Ontario numbered company that he is the sole director of, according to the lawsuit. The company shares the same address as RSG Law, the firm founded, and at the time, led by his son, Raj Grewal.

Despite the sale and collection of millions of dollars, Khattra continued to lie to WIGI throughout the fall of 2025, falsely claiming the Bell Meadows property had not been sold, according to the allegations. 

“Mr. Khattra—with Mr. Mangat copied and on behalf of the (numbered company co-owned by Avtar Grewal and Arandeep Grewal)—continued to misrepresent that the sale had not taken place, instead representing that the deadline was further extended until mid-October.” 

Khattra and Mangat on behalf of the numbered company, allegedly even attempted to negotiate new terms on the interest owing on the mortgage, despite the property having been sold months before.

“They did so in order to avoid paying the amounts owed to Walton and to keep the wrongly diverted proceeds for themselves,” the lawsuit alleges. 

When WIGI (Walton) was unable to get a clear answer about the property by December 2025, the company informed Khattra that the mortgage on the property would not be extended, and the full amount would come due when the three-year term expired on April 6, 2026. 

That date passed with no payment being made. 

It was only when WIGI began the process to sell the lands, reviewing the land title, that its officials realized the VTB mortgage had been deleted, and Khattra, Mangat, Avtar Singh Grewal and Arandeep Singh Grewal had sold the land in June of 2025.

The entire scheme soon began to unravel.

“The fraudulent misrepresentations were part of a fraud and conspiracy between the Fraudulent Defendants to intentionally deprive, and with the predominant purpose of depriving, the Plaintiff of repayment of the mortgage, divert the funds that should have been used to pay the Plaintiff to themselves and others without colour of right and to conceal their conduct from the plaintiff and others,” the statement of claim alleges.

The two properties south of Brantford purchased by Amrinder Singh Mangat in 2025, Riverbend East (top) and the Bell Meadows lands.

(Walton)

The revelation immediately triggered the legal action taken by WIGI which forced the courts to intervene with injunctions to freeze RSG Law accounts, and the accounts of Avtar Grewal, Arandeep Grewal and Mangat to ensure the proceeds from the land sale could be tracked down. 

Granting an injunction on April 23, Justice Myers wrote, “I can think of no honest or honourable reason for the mortgagor, its management, owners, and counsel to think they could take advantage of what had to be an error and ignore the VTB that they knew and acknowledged had to be paid out using the proceeds of sale of the secured land.”

He continued: “On the evidence before me, the mortgagor and its directors have assets in Ontario. I infer from their seemingly intentional and dishonest scheme that there is a serious risk they will dissipate the proceeds of sale referable to the plaintiff’s VTB security.”

After a hearing on May 1, Justice Myers described the lack of action taken by RSG Law, Mangat, Avtar Grewal and Arandeep Grewal following his April 23 order as “unusual and, frankly, quite troubling”. 

“No one put in any evidence today. There was not even a one-line denial of liability or explanation.”

In a court order decision on May 4, Justice Myers reported that RSG provided documents showing how the money from the land sale had been paid out to the numbered company and several other entities.

“The Plaintiff has established a strong prima facie case against the lawyers in conspiracy, conversion and knowledge receipt, if not deceit,” Justice Myers ruled in his court order, prior to the filing of the lawsuit. “Given the strong appearance of dishonesty in this case, it is just and convenient to hold funds presumptively subject to proof that they are trust funds belonging to others.” 

Due to a fear that the money from the sale of the WIGI property could be transferred among numerous other accounts and made difficult to locate, Justice Myers upheld and extended his previous orders to have RSG Law’s accounts and the bank accounts of Avtar Grewal, Mangat and Arandeep Grewal frozen after the latest negotiated settlement agreement had just fallen apart.  

On May 15, that settlement agreement had been signed, and would have resolved the entire matter. Avtar Grewal had agreed to pay $1 million on May 15, followed by $3.3 million on May 22. The same day the agreement was signed, he did not pay the agreed $1 million and stopped communicating with his lawyers. 

“Mr Grewal made neither payment that he agreed to make under the settlement agreement. He apparently was not answering his lawyer’s communication last week until early this morning,” Justice Myers wrote in an endorsement extending the injunctions on May 25. “He now advises Mr. Milosevic that he will be trying to pay the funds this week.” 

WIGI had seen enough. 

On the same day that Myers released his latest endorsement, keeping all the bank accounts frozen, WIGI (Walton) filed its $5.5 million lawsuit against Avtar Singh Grewal and RSG Law, the firm founded by his son, Raj Grewal, along with the other defendants named in the statement of claim. 

Neither Milosevic nor lawyers for WIGI addressed questions about whether the settlement agreement is still on the table after the filing of the statement of claim.

Justice Myers had frank words for Avtar Singh Grewal’s behaviour, placing WIGI’s entire $50,000 legal cost for the May 25 hearing, regarding the failed settlement agreement, at his feet. 

“What concerns me is that the prior finding that there was a real risk of dissipating of assets by the defendants has now been verified by facts. The defendants have not repaid their mortgage. They have made minimal disclosures of assets and on a dilatory basis, Mr. Avtar Singh Grewal’s breach of the settlement agreement on the day he signed it brings into question his good faith. Did he agree just to seek a few more days to stall and move assets? Absent any response from him today, this is a serious concern,” Justice Myers wrote. “If Mr. Avtar Singh Grewal is not willing to fulfil the obligations he voluntarily undertook in a settlement, the court stands today ready, willing and able, to enforce those terms against him and his property.”

Prior to the filing of the statement of claim, The Pointer had reported on the allegations being made during the hearings for the court ordered injunctions requested by WIGI starting on April 23. Many of those allegations are now included in the statement of claim. 

The Pointer visited the addresses of Avtar Singh Grewal, Arandeep Singh Grewal and Amrinder Singh Mangat. 

There was no answer at the address for Mangat. Questions were left at the house, but no response has been received. 

At the Brampton home address listed for Avtar Singh Grewal, a man who answered the door identified himself as a tenant and said he had never met Avtar Grewal but acknowledged him as the owner of the property, declining to provide any further information or contact information for his property manager. 

Questions were left in a mailbox on the property bearing Avtar Grewal’s name. No response has been received. 

A man who identified himself as the son of Arandeep Singh Grewal answered the door at their home and took the printed questions from The Pointer. No response has been received.

On Friday, May 15, a day after publication of the first article detailing the unfolding legal situation, a reporter from The Pointer visited the Mississauga office of RSG Law to interview Raj Grewal, but the door was shut. Two employees eventually spoke to him outside in the hallway and said they would ask if Raj Grewal was in the office and let him know that a reporter wanted to speak with him. No one came back out. A security guard then asked the reporter to leave.

On May 22, the same reporter went back to the RSG Law office and left printed questions for Raj Grewal. Later the same day, Simon Bieber, the lawyer representing Raj Grewal, told The Pointer’s lawyers that the police had been notified and a trespass notice would be issued in the future if The Pointer’s reporters continue to visit the office.  

Grewal has not answered questions about his involvement with RSG Law during the time of the events outlined in the statement of claim. 

Despite Grewal’s claims that he is no longer involved with RSG Law and its day-to-day operations, The Pointer has reported evidence connecting him to work at the firm. 

The Pointer has been contacted by four separate sources who are owed money by RSG Law. They said Raj Grewal personally communicated with them over the last five weeks and that he has repeatedly told them he would get their money to them. This has not happened. 

The Pointer has verified Grewal’s communications with three of the four sources. 

When asked about these communications, Grewal did not respond. 

Nitan Waryah, a Brampton resident who has more than $700,000 from the property sale of a family home frozen in RSG Law accounts, informed The Pointer that Raj Grewal personally ensured the money owing would be returned two weeks ago. That never happened. In the same conversation Raj Grewal told Waryah that he sold RSG Law two years ago and had nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of the firm. 

Grewal’s claim that he has distanced himself from RSG Law does not align with Google reviews posted in recent months thanking him 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. 

One of several Google reviews posted over the last year, this one about two months ago, which have since been removed, thanking Raj Grewal for his work at RSG Law. He claims he sold the firm two years ago and has nothing to do with the day-to-day operations.

Raj Grewal 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.

Business registry documents show Raj Grewal was the registrant for 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 listed as the registrant.

(Toronto Star)

In July of 2025, a paid article appeared in the Toronto Star in which Grewal represented himself as RSG Law’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.”

In that article, published a month after the sale of the Bell Meadows land at the centre of the lawsuit, it states: 

“RSG Law has consistently grown its annual revenue by 40 per cent while adhering to this alternative pricing approach. Importantly, the firm’s growth has been organic — driven by word-of-mouth rather than paid marketing — highlighting the trust and satisfaction of its client base.”

- With files from Muhammad Hamza 

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