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‘It was a big mistake’: LSO reveals evidence that suggests Raj Grewal tried to cover up a $30M mortgage & real estate fraud

By Joel Wittnebel
Jul 29, 2026 - Brampton, Mississauga

The Law Society of Ontario has revealed damning new evidence that appears to show the former Brampton MP admitting the fraudulent mortgage loans totalling $30 million that Raj Grewal arranged against a client’s properties without his knowledge were “a big mistake”, then trying to convince the owner to take part in a scheme to mislead his new lawyer so Grewal could avoid a complaint to the Law Society.

The shocking evidence was released as part of the LSO’s hearing process to suspend Grewal’s licence to practice law. Last week, Grewal’s partner at RSG Law and right-hand-man, Davinder Khattra, had his own licence suspended following similar, damning allegations of fraud outlined by the LSO.

Grewal founded RSG Law, the firm which still uses his initials as its name. He claims he sold the firm to Khattra in 2023, shortly after the young lawyer had graduated from law school. A growing body of evidence shows Grewal maintained control of the firm and he might have used Khattra’s name to avoid scrutiny as legal troubles for the law firm Grewal founded began to mount.

There have been approximately two-dozen separate cases filed against RSG Law, Grewal and Khattra over the last two months including more than a dozen lawsuits. At least two banks have also successfully moved to freeze the accounts of RSG Law, as tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from fraudulent transactions continue to be traced by financial institutions. The tentacles connected to Grewal in dozens of schemes alleged in court records have spread across the banking sector and vast reaches of the GTA’s real estate market.

Tomorrow, July 30, the Law Society Tribunal will hear a motion from Grewal’s lawyers requesting the LSO share more of its evidence from six separate complaints filed against the former Brampton MP as part of the LSO’s case to suspend his licence.

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that there is a significant risk of harm to the public and the public interest in the administration of justice if Rajvinder Singh Grewal (the "Lawyer") is allowed to continue to practice,” the LSO alleges. It also alleges the possibility that Grewal has committed criminal acts.

Through a letter from his lawyer included in the LSO documents for the upcoming hearings, he denies all the allegations levelled by the Law Society in its effort to suspend the Peel-based lawyer.

According to Tribunal records, lawyers with the LSO will be moving their own motion in the hearing tomorrow for an “interim interlocutory suspension” based on the materials already filed.

This comes ahead of the motion for a suspension of Grewal’s licence scheduled for August 14.

Amanda Ross, Grewal’s lawyer, did not respond to a request for comment on the LSO proceedings or the allegations included in the evidence made public by the Law Society.

According to a document filed by Grewal’s lawyer, his team should be allowed to review all the evidence received by the LSO against Grewal.

“It is thus anticipated that a central issue at the upcoming interlocutory suspension hearing will be the strength of the evidence respecting the Respondent’s purported active knowledge of and involvement in the fraudulent activity alleged,” Grewal’s lawyer argues.

According to the LSO, six complaints have been filed against Grewal over the past four months.

One is from lawyer Jesse Brodlieb, who represented a man named Navdeep Singh in a real estate matter last year.

Singh hired Brodlieb to complete a tax restructuring involving two corporations Singh owns that control two adjacent Don Mills properties at the heart of the legal trouble for Grewal in the case, which is one of more than a dozen the former politician is facing. None of the allegations in the lawsuits filed since the start of May has been tested in court.

According to an affidavit sworn by LSO investigator Petronela Voinicu, “While performing due diligence, Mr. Brodlieb discovered that on December 12, 2025, charges in the amount of $15 million were registered against both properties” totalling $30 million.

Evidence in lawsuits filed against RSG Law, Grewal and Khattra since May, show that while Grewal was arranging to fraudulently secure $30 million in loans using properties he had no authorization over, he was sinking under a rapidly growing mountain of real estate debt connected to his development company, RSG Group. Lawsuits have recently been filed showing Grewal owes approximately $25 million to lenders after defaulting on a mortgage for a roughly 20-acre property on Mayfield Road in Brampton. Another $1.6 million lawsuit was filed by lenders who backed Grewal and his father Avtar in their purchase of an Oakville property which the pair used to take out approximately $24 million in mortgage loans.

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More than a dozen other lawsuits, including one seeking $137 million and alleging $64 million in outstanding real estate loans, have been filed against Grewal, the law firm he founded and his father, with alleged fraud of more than $250 million.

According to provincial registration documents attached to the LSO affidavit, Grewal has to pay $600,000 a month just to cover the 24 percent interest rate on the fraudulent $30 million in loans he received using Singh’s Don Mills properties.

Brodlieb says Singh did not authorize these loans that were taken out against his properties, and did not sign any documentation required to approve the charges. Loan documents included in the Tribunal filings show Singh signed the documents, and this was witnessed by Khattra. Singh makes it clear in his evidence that he did not sign the documents that allowed the loans.

According to the evidence, Grewal represented Singh in a separate, “landlord and tenant matter” the prior year related to the properties. Then, more than a year after he had been retained for that matter, in December 2025, Grewal requested identification documents from Singh to purportedly move forward with the eviction matter.

In an email Singh sent to Voinicu, he states he had no interactions with Khattra, and expressed his belief that Grewal requested his identification in December to move forward with the fraudulent charges illegally using properties he was not authorized to take out loans against.

“I never sent those ID pictures to D. Khattra, I don’t know that guy, never had any communication with him. He is used by Raj Grewal for this fraud PIN registrations, 100% no doubts…These IDs were sent to Raj Grewal,” Singh wrote. “Please ask Raj Grewal, “why he requested 2nd ID in December”? Eviction started in August, Eviction decision date is 29th December, so December 10th request makes no other sense than use for Fraud Mortgage. I am sure you can connect these date dots.”

Once Singh became aware of the unauthorized loans against his properties, he contacted Grewal. Transcripts of revealing phone calls between Singh and Grewal are included in the LSO filings. It appears Grewal admitted to the scheme in a conversation on March 4.

“So obviously, whatever happened has happened, all right. Now we just wanna cover the fire with the blanket and the best way to do that is to obviously just pay off the mortgage and call it a day… we didn’t change the ownership of the property; we didn’t change the ownership of the corporation. Nothing,” Grewal said, according to the transcript of the recorded phone conversation.

“So, basically, basically property is still owned by, by our corporation. It is just a mortgage on it,” Singh then asked.

“Basically, brother… listen, nowadays, everything gets done through doc sign. Right, so like…”

“Hmm,” Singh interjected.

Grewal continued: “The game has been played, that’s what it is. Right, so now, whatever mistake has been made, we admit that it is a mistake, all right. It is a big mistake, no doubt, but we can solve this. And no one should suffer a loss,” Grewal said.

According to Voinicu, “I am advised by Mr. Singh, and I believe, that (Grewal) asked Mr. Singh to help him avoid a Law Society complaint by engaging in a convoluted false narrative. The Lawyer (Grewal) asked Mr. Singh to tell Mr. Brodlieb that RSG Law had registered charges on the properties to strengthen the eviction case, on which the Lawyer (Grewal) had worked. If there were outstanding mortgage payments to be made, and no rent payments coming from the tenant, the Lawyer (Grewal) suggested, then Mr. Singh might lose the property. In the narrative proposed by the Lawyer (Grewal), these charges would have helped obtain a quicker eviction from the court,” the affidavit explains. “Mr. Singh refused to participate in the Lawyer's (Grewal’s) scheme, and the Lawyer (Grewal) told Mr. Singh he would obtain the funds to discharge the mortgage.”

On March 12, Khattra wired $500,000 as a partial payment to pay down the $30 million in mortgage loans that had been fraudulently registered on Singh’s properties, then made several more payments over the following days.

Singh and his lawyer asked Grewal for all the mortgage documents to show how signatures and identification were used to fraudulently obtain the loans and reveal the records of Grewal’s scheme.

“Mr. Brodlieb advised the Law Society that the funds used to pay down or discharge the charges were not those of Mr. Singh. Mr. Brodlieb did not receive any mortgage or loan documentation from the Lawyer (Grewal) or Mr. Khattra.”

The LSO investigation into Singh’s complaint is ongoing.

In a separate complaint, it is alleged Grewal failed to pay funds held in trust for a loan.

The complaint was filed by Billa Matharu. He alleges his numbered company advanced a mortgage to Grewal in the amount of $5.6 million.

When the mortgage matured on March 31, 2026, Khattra and Grewal told Matharu and the other lenders that the $1.93 million to pay off the loan was being held in trust by RSG Law.

“RSG Law's March 2026 trust bank statement does not show the payment of $1.93 million into the trust account. The Law Society cannot obtain the April 2026 trust bank account statement because Scotiabank has frozen RSG Law's trust account,” the LSO’s filings detail. “On April 20, 2026, RSG Law issued an initial cheque to Mr. Matharu's numbered company in the amount of $259,050.00, but it was returned due to non-sufficient funds, and no further payments were made. The cheque was signed by Mr. Khattra. To date, no payments have been made.”

The loan from Matharu was meant to be registered against six properties, one of which, according to the LSO, “appears to be owned by (Grewal) and one of the properties appears to be owned by Mr. Khattra.”

The money was never secured on the title for those properties, and the title insurance provided by Grewal was fraudulent.

“On June 3, 2026, the purported title insurer confirmed that it had never issued a lender's title insurance policy in connection with this mortgage,” Voinicu’s affidavit declares.

According to Matharu, Grewal promised he would repay the money owed in weekly installments if he “agreed not to cooperate or respond to the Law Society.”

A third complaint received by the LSO, from Surjit Singh, alleges Grewal failed to pay out the mortgages on two properties Surjit Singh owned.

Surjit Singh hired RSG law for a refinancing transaction for 5945 Atlantic Drive in Mississauga.

“Mr. Singh understood that (Grewal) was the supervising lawyer and Mr. Khattra was an associate lawyer at the law firm with carriage of the file,” the LSO documents outline.

As part of this transaction, the National Bank of Canada (NBC) advanced a $4.2 million loan, secured by a mortgage on the property.

“Mr. Singh understood that NBC would hold the new first mortgage on the Atlantic property. RSG Law was instructed to use the funds to discharge an existing first mortgage in favour of the Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC") in the amount of approximately $4,200,000. (Grewal) did not pay out the RBC mortgage, nor did he register a discharge of the RBC mortgage,” the LSO’s investigator details in her affidavit. “(Grewal) has repeatedly made excuses to Mr. Singh as to why the RBC mortgage was not paid out…The RBC mortgage remains registered on the property as of today.”

After the issues with the Atlantic property, Surjit Singh then searched the title for another Mississauga property he owns at 1136 Matheson Boulevard. He discovered a first mortgage had been placed on the property in the amount of $2 million on November 14, 2024. While Singh is listed as a guarantor on the mortgage, he says he never consented to it.

On November 15, 2024, a notice was registered, increasing that mortgage to $6 million.

“The notice includes a schedule indicating that Mr. Khattra witnessed Mr. Singh and 245's (an Ontario numbered company) signatures on the schedule. Again, Mr. Singh denies consenting to the notice, and says he did not sign the schedule,” the investigator states in her affidavit.

On March 18 of this year, another mortgage in the amount of $4 million was registered against the property. Again, Singh was listed as a guarantor of the loan.

“Mr. Singh says he did not consent to the second mortgage.”

On March 20, a notice was registered increasing the loan once again, to just over $7 million.

“The notice includes a schedule indicating that Mr. Khattra witnessed Mr. Singh and the other borrowers and guarantors' signatures on the schedule. Mr. Singh says he did not sign the schedule,” the affidavit details.

“The second mortgage and the second notice on the Matheson property appears to be a collateral mortgage registered against two other properties: one is owned by Inderjit Dhugga and Balbinder Dhugga at 928 Lynrod Court, Mississauga and the second is owned by The Buffalo Group of Companies Inc. at 70 Superior Boulevard East, Mississauga. In June 2026, the Dhugga's counsel confirmed that they did not sign the mortgage documents.”

Inderjit (Andy) Dhugga is a well known business owner in Brampton and has supported Grewal even throughout his gambling troubles, testifying in his defence during Grewal’s criminal case in 2022. The former MP was acquitted on fraud charges but evidence showed he misled constituents, telling them he needed money to cover student loans then taking their funds to an Ottawa-area casino where he lost millions of dollars gambling.

On July 3, Surjit Singh, along with his brother Balkar Singh Chettre, sued Grewal, Khattra, RSG Law and other parties involved in the two mortgages for $17 million alleging fraud, conversion and breach of trust. The allegations have not yet been tested in court.

In a matter involving National Bank of Canada, Justice Fred Myers of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, who is overseeing many of the cases involving RSG Law, issued a scathing order last week against Grewal and Khattra, and addressed the recipients of fraudulently obtained funds. “That includes Raj Grewal,” he wrote.

“Although he proposes to repay one amount, it remains less than clear how he would have received funds and not repaid them already if he is now so eager to repay them to avoid being named.”

Myers then wrote that there is “no transparency at all” in a transaction involving a gas station that Grewal was involved with, which is part of the National Bank matter. “Moreover, his name appears as a recipient, director, manager, and/or lawyer on the file for most of the cases before the court despite Mr. Grewal no longer being shown as a lawyer at the RSG firm. If he received converted (fraudulent) funds in any of those capacities, he is rightly called upon to account like all other recipients.”

Last week, Davinder Khattra, Raj Grewal’s right-hand-man at RSG Law, agreed to have his legal licence suspended following mounting evidence of fraud. Grewal is facing a similar Law Society Tribunal hearing regarding his own licence tomorrow.

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According to the LSO factum, there are three other investigations into Grewal that the regulatory body is conducting—details are not shared—alleging Grewal has defrauded clients of approximately $17.3 million.

According to the LSO, based on the evidence, there is reason to believe the misconduct could extend beyond what has already been brought to the governing body’s attention.

“Given the apparent pattern of (Grewal’s) involvement in unauthorized mortgage transactions, there is reason to suspect the Lawyer regularly made use of unauthorized mortgage proceeds to his benefit in other, unrelated matters.”

The revelations from the LSO come just over two months after The Pointer first reported that RSG Law was connected to a multi-million fraud investigation launched by Scotiabank. Following the publication of that story on May 14, the website of RSG Law was reduced to a single “Contact Us” page, and the site for Raj Grewal’s development company, RSG Group, was taken offline.

On May 25, development consortium WIGI Restructured Bond Corporation launched a $5.5 million lawsuit against RSG Law over allegations the law firm conspired with Avtar Singh Grewal, Raj Grewal’s father, and others to avoid paying a multi-million-dollar mortgage WIGI held on a piece of land in the Brantford area. Justice Fred Myers at the Commercial List Court labelled the behaviour of Khattra and the others involved as a “seemingly intentional and dishonest scheme”.

On June 5, Harvinderjit and Surinder Waryah filed a statement of claim against RSG Law and Davinder Singh Khattra for breach of fiduciary duty. The Waryahs also filed an LSO complaint against Khattra which formed part of the factum leading to his suspension last week. The lawsuit alleges the defendants, RSG Law and Khattra, failed to properly execute their duties to transfer $714,000 in mortgage funds after Nitan Waryah purchased his parents’ house. The transfer was done at the same time RSG Law had its trust accounts frozen as a result of being linked to the fraud investigation ongoing at Scotiabank. Waryah’s complaint to the LSO also forms part of the factum made public yesterday.

Raj Grewal is also being sued in two separate lawsuits for allegedly failing to make payments on a $25 million property in Brampton; and for the alleged scheme to defraud lenders out of $1.6 million in connection to a piece of land in Oakville Grewal purchased with his father.

On June 30, The Pointer reported Raj Grewal defaulted on a loan and was ordered to hand over two Brampton houses and pay $1.2 million after losing a related lawsuit.

On July 2, The Pointer reported on Raj Grewal’s connections to more than $12 million in fraudulent cheques, in a case that saw Scotiabank freeze RSG Law’s trust account. The story also detailed previous allegations in the ongoing case involving the lawsuit by WIGI, in which Justice Fred Myers of Ontario’s Superior Court found strong evidence against RSG Law and Khattra.

On July 7, The Pointer detailed the $137 million lawsuit against RSG Law and Raj Grewal, alleging widespread mortgage fraud and $64 million owed to lenders.

A separate lawsuit was filed by Toronto law firm Torkin Manes last month alleging Raj Grewal failed to pay for services the firm provided.

Alongside the LSO investigations and more than a dozen civil suits, police are also investigating possible criminal behaviour by Grewal and Khattra, which the LSO raised as a concern in its motions to suspend their law licence.

Grewal’s hearing before the LSO is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 30.

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