Jaswinder Singh Brar owns one of 14 Manitoba properties that had liens placed on them. However, he wasn't the one who owed money and says the onus shouldn't have been placed on him to prove it.

Brar received notice in March that a lien of $127,800 had been placed on his Winnipeg home because another man with the same name defaulted on payments on a leased semi-trailer. A lien is a financial claim against a property title that is used to ensure payment.

It turns out Jaswinder Singh Brar, a software engineer, shares the name with a man who owes money for the big rig — and he's not the only one. Several other men with the same name received notice that a lien had been put on their property, too.

Brar says when found out about the lien he became so rattled he immediately took his blood pres

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