MEDIA COVERAGE
Carmen Pervez + EPS Brass = BFF?
A brief history of EPS corruption allegations in the media along with information on the individuals they are accused of protecting.
This list of highlights felt like a good place to start. As more articles, blogs, interviews, etc. are reviewed they will be added. Do you have one? Please send it here.
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1983 - 2000
More Information Needed
A lot of articles refer to Pervez's long criminal history including violence, drugs, assumed identities, etc. Finding clarification on these has proven difficult. This will be updated as more information is found. If you have anything to share, please message here.
JANUARY 2000
Hell's Angels Connection?
Edmonton Police Service Detective Ken Montgomery alleges connection between EPS executives and organized criminals; says Chief turns a blind eye. The Police Commission of Edmonton requests outside agency investigate the matter. Alberta Justice Minister chooses RCMP based out of Edmonton instead. Read the article
DECEMBER 2005
$30 Million in Fraud
A total of 142 charges were laid against Pervez and four others individuals for their roles in committing mortgage fraud on over 120 properties in Edmonton & Camrose. Read the blog.
NOVEMBER 2006
Pervez Mole Retires Without Criminal Investigation
Staff Sergeant Allan Pitts (25+ years service) is suspected of sharing information (names, license plates, etc.) from government database with head of criminal organization. Over 250 searches were made that could not be explained. Internal investigation called off when Pitts retired. No criminal investigation followed. Read the article
FEBRUARY 2008
Mortgage Fraud & "Jail Time"
Pervez plead guilty to 54 counts of fraud and was given a 5 year sentence after obtaining fraudulent mortgages upwards of 30 million dollars. He was released in 2010 and then changed his name to Abdullah Shaw. It is unclear how long he stayed in prison or how much of the 1.8 million dollar profit he made was confiscated. Did he retain possession of his housing portfolio? More information is needed here. Read the article
AUGUST 2015
Slumlord Criminal History
Pervez claims that he is helping the homeless population in the city. His criminal history and the communities that fight to keep him away from their homes beg to differ. Read the article.
DECEMBER 2015
Drugs, lots of drugs... and weapons - Charges Dropped
Pervez faces more than a dozen charges related to drugs and weapons after a Christmas Eve traffic stop. He was released on $10,000 bail, but charges were later dropped. Read the article.
APRIL 2016
Raid Finds Drug Trafficking Operation - Charges Laid
$96000 in drugs: nearly a kilo of methamphetamine and quantities of Dilaudid, oxycodone and Ritalin. Scales, packaging, mobile phones and cash were were seized during a raid on a city warehouse. At the time, Insp. Ed McIsaac said, “It’s a large seizure of methamphetamine. You usually don’t see this much at one time.” Charges were later dropped. Read the article.
MAY 2018
2016 Drug Trafficking Charges Dropped
Crown prosecutors withdrew all charges against Pervez stating that the case failed to meet the threshold of being in the best interest of the public and of having a reasonable likelihood of conviction. These charges related back to a 2016 warehouse raid where police found approximately $100k in drugs and drug paraphernalia. It is unclear if the drugs, scales and cash were returned to Pervez after the crown's decision. Read the article.
JULY 2019
Podcast by the CBC on Pervez
"A battle is brewing in Edmonton's inner city. Neighbours are terrified. Fights, overdoses and crime spill out from problem houses, many owned by a small group of people connected by one notorious landlord. CBC’s Elizabeth Hames investigates." Listen to the trailer then find the full podcast online, Apple or Google podcast apps.
AUGUST 2020
Fentanyl Trafficking
Short run down of Carmen Pervez (aka: Abdullah Shah, Gohar Ahmed Pervez). Read a small portion of allegations and convictions of the EPS bedfellow in this short article.
DECEMBER 2020
Timeout for Ordering a Hit
Pervez recorded on phone call he made to three different prisoners of the Edmonton Remand Center offering money for a hit on then inmate Clark Moukhaiber.
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Moukhaiber was brutally attacked one month after being released from prison. Crown prosecutor offered a plea deal on a lesser charge because the hit did not take place in prison. Pervez received 8 months of house arrest at a time when all Albertans were following Provincial Covid lockdowns. His conditions included only having one cell phone. Read full article here.
JULY 2021
Allegation: EPS protects Pervez
EPS Detective suspended after alleging proof of organization run by Carmen Pervez being protected by EPS Executives in March 2019 and January 2021 memos to Chief Dale McFee.
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Accused Superintendent Ed McIsaac (retired August 2020) admits to speaking with Pervez regularly after unreported contact was found in an unrelated search of Carmen's phone. “Of course, Carmen phoned me quite a bit, and every time he phoned me, I answered his call, like every other citizen in downtown division.”
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Calgary Police anti-corruption unit , conducts confidential investigation clearing McIsaac and the EPS, according to an EPS press release. Calgary Chief of Police Neufeld and Deputy Chief Tawfik are both former EPS members. Neufeld and McIsaac worked in the same unit.
Read full article here.
VARIOUS DATES
Delapidated Properties
More information will be added here with respect to city initiatives to clean up neighborhoods affected by Pervez. Please send in any information you may have here.
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Behind the blue line: Investigating Abdullah Shah (Part 1 of 5)
Carmen Pervez is Abdullah Shah, for clarification. After 9 months of silence, the reporter that Behiels leaked the information to came forward with allegations that are more shocking than what I had anticipated. Everyone in the area knows what Shah (Pervez) is capable of... the fact that the CBC is saying it out loud and promising evidence is, well, unbelievable. "Through 2016 to 2018, approximately 10 per cent of Edmonton's homicides occurred in a property owned or controlled by Shah". Read for yourself here.
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Behind the blue line: Investigating Abdullah Shah (Part 2 of 5)
"He was exploited to conduct work, criminal and non-criminal, under threat of violence by means of indentured servitude to Shah,". Allow me to translate that: he found vulnerable individuals and took them on as slaves. If you had to take a wild guess, what population of people do you think those would be primarily? I'll give you a hint, the Police Executive office in Edmonton obviously didn't care about them. Read the article here.
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Behind the blue line: Investigating Abdullah Shah (Part 3 of 5)
Shah ran in excess of $800,000 in money through casinos over a 6 month period in 2018. A money laundering expert hired by the CBC said "It would be hard to invent a set of facts to better showcase prevailing money laundering techniques in Canada." According to previous articles in this series, the crown found that there was not enough evidence and it wasn't in the best interest of the public. The fuck? Read it here.