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Quinn Taggart, seen here in 2002, was charged with fraud. The former senior administrative officer and financial officer for the Kugaaruk hamlet is scheduled to make his first court appearance on June 7. He is accused of defrauding the hamlet of $27,000. - NNSL file photo


Former Kugaaruk SAO charged with fraud

Kent Driscoll
Northern News Services

Pelly Bay (May 29/06) - A former Kugaaruk senior administrative officer has been charged with fraud following a three-year investigation.

Quinn Taggart - a 42-year-old Nova Scotia resident - is accused of defrauding $27,000 from the hamlet coffers.

Taggart was the finance administrator from May 1998 until November 1999. He became SAO in May of 1999 and continued in that role until April 2002.

RCMP confirm that the investigation into Taggart and the missing money began in 2003.

He is scheduled to make his first court appearance on June 7 in Kugaaruk.

The penalty for fraud of this nature in the Criminal Code is up to 10 years in prison.

Kugaaruk hamlet officials refused to comment on the investigation or the missing money when contacted by Nunavut News/North.