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A B.C. Supreme Court judge has streamlined a process to claw back millions of dollars from investors who profited unfairly from a major real-estate Ponzi scheme.
The case involves now-deceased Kelowna, B.C., man Curtis Gordon Quigley, who over 12 years stole more than $8.3 million from dozens of investors through a scam that promised high yields through real-estate flipping.
By the time he was declared bankrupt in June 2020, some of his victims had handed over their entire life savings.
Quigley and his two pet dogs…