Immigration fraud charges were have stayed against two Charlottetown motel owners.
Federal prosecutors had alleged hundreds of newcomers used the siblings’ hotel as an address though they didn’t intend to remain on the Island under a provincially sponsored program.
A federal prosecutor asked a provincial court judge to stay the charges because there wasn’t sufficient evidence to proceed further.
In May, the Canada Border Services Agency charged 60-year-old Ping Zhong with three counts of aiding and abetting misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and five charges were laid against her 58-year-old brother, Yi Zhong.