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  $500,000 Kidnapping Lawsuit — Judge Says the Real Story Was an Illegal Immigration Scheme A Toronto man said he was kidnapped at gunpoint in Pakistan and forced to sign away his condo. The men he sued told a completely different story. After a week-long trial, an Ontario judge believed neither one — and pointed to something else going on entirely. A Lawsuit Built on Two Impossible Stories In January 2009, an Ontario Superior Court judge sat down to rule on a civil case that had been dragging through the courts since 2005. The file, Ahmed v. Hakim , 2009 CanLII 1364 (ON SC), involved a $500,000 claim, a condominium in Toronto, a cheque altered multiple times, and a kidnapping allegation set halfway across the world in Lahore, Pakistan. By the end of a week-long trial, Justice Mesbur delivered one of the more unusual lines you'll find in a Canadian judgment: both sides' versions of events were, in her words, too fantastic to be credible — and she meant it about both of the...