TORONTO – Miro Brcic and Sacred Rides Mountain Bike Holidays Inc. (Sacred Rides) have pled guilty and each was convicted of one count of operating as a travel agent without registration, confirms TICO.

Brcic is an owner and director of Sacred Rides, which operated in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario. Brcic was sentenced to a fine of $3,500 plus Victim Surcharge Fine, for a total of $4,375. Sacred Rides was sentenced to a fine of $1,000 plus Victim Surcharge Fine, for a total of $1,250.

Sacred Rides has applied and is now registered as a travel agent under the Travel Industry Act, 2002.

In other news, in September 2016, the Ontario Court of Justice, Provincial Offences Court acquitted Global Events Management Group Inc. (Global Events) and Maher Jaber of one count each of operating as a travel agent without registration.

TICO appealed to the Ontario Court of Justice, Criminal Division. The appeal was granted and the defendants were convicted of operating as a travel agent without registration. Jaber and Global Events were sentenced to a fine of $2,500 each, plus Victim Surcharge and Court Fees for a total of $6,250.

Jaber and Global Events operated in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario.