An Ontario judge has sentenced two Indian immigrants to house arrest for running fraudulent truck driving schools that offered sub-standard training for newcomers from South Asia.

After a five-week trial at Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, a jury convicted Gurvinder Singh and Gurpreet Singh of one count each of fraud over $5,000 and uttering a forged document.

“Their convictions arose from the fraudulent mandatory entry-level training that each offered to students seeking a Class A driver’s licence,” Justice Pierre Roger wrote in a recent decision.

He gave both men conditional sentences of two years less a day, to be served in the community.

“The magnitude, complexity, duration, number of victims, and degree of planning involved in the offences is aggravating,” Roger said in his de

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