Dawwd (Daoud) Soukary was a probationary constable who resigned in June 2021 while under investigation
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A former Surrey RCMP officer, who had been associating with gangsters, has pleaded guilty to a single count of breach of trust.
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Dawwd (Daoud) Soukary, originally arrested in January 2021, entered his guilty plea in New Westminster Supreme Court on April 23. He will be sentenced in August.
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Supt. Sanjaya Wijayakoon of the B.C. RCMP’s major crime unit said in a statement Monday that the “investigation was a complex but necessary undertaking to preserve public trust and confidence in the RCMP by taking decisive action and swiftly addressing corruption within our ranks.”
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“The work of our dedicated anticorruption investigators will soon conclude as we await the court’s decision on sentencing,” he said.
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Soukary was a probationary constable who resigned in June 2021 while under investigation. He was charged in July 2023 with 13 criminal counts, including eight of breach of trust, two of distributing cannabis, and one each of trafficking, conspiracy to commit robbery, and theft over $5,000.
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That corruption probe began in summer 2020, when police became aware of the allegations against Soukary and began a covert investigation.
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After his initial arrest, the RCMP notified Soukary, now 30, of the concurrent Code of Conduct investigation, suspended him, and revoked his security clearance. His pay was also stopped.
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RCMP Assistant Commissioner Elija Rain said at the time that the force “took immediate steps to investigate his actions as well as mitigate any negative impact those actions might have had on public safety.”
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“The onus is ours to ensure that the public continues to have trust and confidence in the police. While allegations of this nature are exceedingly rare in the RCMP, we acknowledge that they can taint the public’s perspective of us, making it all the more important for us to take swift action when they arise,” Rain said.
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Postmedia News learned early in the probe that Soukary had been associating with people in the Brothers Keepers gang.
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Soukary moved back to his native Ottawa and began to work in real estate. But after he was charged in B.C., the Real Estate Council of Ontario cited him for not reporting the criminal allegations he faced in the Lower Mainland. The citation said that Soukary failed to notify the registrar within five days of the criminal charges against him. And he also failed “to deliver copies of written agreements with his clients to the brokerage that employs him at the earliest opportunity.”
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Soukary terminated his real estate licence voluntarily and “entered into an undertaking agreement whereby he agreed that he will not submit an application for registration before July 1, 2026,” the real estate council noted on its website.
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He was at one-time a high school basketball star in Ottawa who went on to play college ball at Cape Breton University in Sydney, N.S.
