Three restaurant owners who financially abused their immigrant employees were handed jail terms this week by a Calgary judge.
The offenders — Manikandan Kasinathan, Chandramohan Marjak and Mary Roche — were each sentenced to 90-day jail terms, to be served on weekends, after they were convicted of fraud over $5,000.
Kasinathan, Marjak and Roche, who co-owned Marina Dosa and Tandoori Grill in Calgary, will also be placed on 18-months probation and must pay back the $44,000 they stole from three employees.
The sentences follow a piecemeal trial that began in the summer of 2024 and wrapped up in May 2025 with the conviction decision by Justice Sandra Mah.
Why should these people be allowed to have employees again? Especially concurrent with their sentences? The message the court appears to be sending here is “abuse your employees, and the the law says you should break even”.
The actual problem here is that the feds are complicit…they incentivize extracting financial gain from TFW.