http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Takhar Posts tagged with 'Takhar' at MetaFilter. Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:58:34 -0800 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:58:34 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/65150/Allegations%2Dof%2Dfinancial%2Dimpropriety%2Dand%2Dmalfeasance <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/education/postsecondary/article.jsp?content=20070910_109140_109140">The ugly side of student politics</a> More than three-quarters of a million dollars in student funds was misspent, a <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=f878edc5-ab18-4b79-8ec4-271f5ad74a99&k=51392">forensic audit</a> of Vancouver's Kwantlen University College student association finances has found. <em>"It's been a pretty long process because <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=b6075818-09a2-4d1c-8145-9606f711ea4e">the financial records from 2006 were 'lost.'</a> " </em> The audit also revealed that $140,000 was paid to former executive members, including former student association chair Aaron Takhar. Takhar made headlines last May when <a href="http://www.surreyleader.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=73&cat=48&id=1067450&more=0">he was arrested on drug charges</a> after RCMP found 170 marijuana plants in a car that he had rented. His friend, 18-year-old Daljit Sandhu of Richmond, was discovered dead in the Nechako River near Vanderhoof after he drove the rented Ford Escape off a side-road and into the water. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65150 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:58:34 -0800 corruption Kwantlen studentpolitics Surrey Takhar Vancouver KokuRyu