A former Royal Bank of Canada employee has been convicted of three criminal offences for opening fraudulent accounts and accessing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s personal banking information.
An agreed statement of facts in the case filed in an Ontario court said Ottawa bank branch employee Ibrahim El-Hakim was recruited by a person he believed “to be associated with organized crime.”
The RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team launched an investigation last year after being contacted by RBC.
RCMP Cpl. Erique Gasse said in September 2025 the investigation gave the Mounties no reason to believe that Carney’s safety or national security was at risk….