{"id":23820,"date":"2026-05-26T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=23820"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:33:17","slug":"san-industries-ltd-fined-429k-for-twf-violations-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/?p=23820","title":{"rendered":"San Industries Ltd. fined 429k for TWF violations – banned"},"content":{"rendered":"

B.C. forestry company San Industries Ltd. has been handed a $429k penalty and two-year ban from hiring migrant workers after it violated regulations.
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\nThe company breached five sections of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, rules designed to protect temporary foreign workers. San Industries Ltd. (San Group) was founded and controlled by Kamaljit Singh Sanghera, Sukhjit Singh Sanghera, and Iqbal Deol.
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\nSan Group CEO Kamaljit Singh (Kamal) Sanghera <\/p>\n

At $429k, the penalty is the province’s second-largest, just behind the $435k fine handed out to Surrey\u2019s Kanwar Walia Farms<\/a> in February 2026. The San Group sought creditor protection in November 2024 in the face of more than $150 million in claims. Despite selling off some of its assets, lenders are still owed more than $129m, according to Deloitte.<\/p>\n

In April, the forestry outfit launched a legal attack involving a federal bank, one of Canada\u2019s largest insurance brokers, and the world\u2019s most famous insurance syndicate. Lloyd\u2019s Underwriters denied a $31m insurance claim over a 2024 fire at a San-owned mill in Delta, B.C. They claimed the fire was a deliberate act of arson by the owners.
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<\/td>\nSan Group owners are Kamal Sanghera (CEO), Suki Sanghera (president) and Paul Deol. Suki Sanghera is Kamal Sanghera’s brother.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\nDeloitte Restructuring Inc., the monitor, has sought to sell about 46 acres of San owned land and saw mill equipment in Port Alberni, and more than 45 acres, including a remanufacturing facility, in Langley. When the co sought creditor protection it owed $107m to the Royal Bank of Canada, $43m to the Business Development Bank of Canada, $22m to the B.C. government for stumpage fees, and $5m to the Canada Revenue Agency.<\/p>\n

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\n In total, the company\u2019s liabilities were at least $193.85m before going bankrupt. San Industries Ltd. went to extraordinary lengths to import Punjabi workers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSAN Group failed because SAN Group spent lots of money and we [made] mistakes,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then Corona [Covid] hit, and then the highway fire happened and we didn\u2019t get any help from any government, not provincial or federal government. This was the biggest mistake. We should have shut down at that time and waited for insurance money to fix things. This was the biggest mistake that SAN Group made.\u201d
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B.C. forestry company San Industries Ltd. has been handed a $429k penalty and two-year ban from hiring migrant workers after it violated regulations. The company breached five sections of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, rules designed to protect temporary foreign workers. San Industries Ltd. (San Group) was founded and controlled by Kamaljit Singh Sanghera, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1281,1279,1282,1280],"class_list":["post-23820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iqbal-deol","tag-kamaljit-singh-sanghera","tag-san-industries-ltd","tag-sukhjit-singh-sanghera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-26-070421.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23820"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23837,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820\/revisions\/23837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gangsterismout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}