Seven unregistered-selling convictions in four days: Ontario courts fine five parties $31,500 in the August 18-21 batch

Every conviction in this batch is the same offence family: selling vehicles without being registered to sell them. Between August 18 and 21, 2026, OMVIC’s court table logged seven convictions against five parties, six counts of acting as a dealer without registration under s. 4(1)(a) of the MVDA and one of acting as a salesperson without registration under s. 4(1)(b), for $31,500 in fines across Toronto, Kitchener and Barrie.

The five parties

Three of the five sat in Toronto courts on August 18. Pantaleon Martinez Gonzalez was convicted at trial on two unregistered-dealer counts under s. 4(1)(a), $5,000 each. Gonzalez General Service Inc., convicted at trial the same day, took two counts at $5,000 each. Mosayeb Tavakolli pleaded guilty to a single count and drew the same $5,000.

The other two convictions came by plea outside Toronto. Hazael Gonzalez Ruiz pleaded guilty in Kitchener on August 19 to one unregistered-dealer count, $3,500. Luiraf Garcia Aguilar pleaded guilty in Barrie on August 21 to the batch’s one salesperson count under s. 4(1)(b), $3,000.

The table presents each party’s rows on their own terms; nothing in it connects any file to any other.

Reading the fine amounts

Five of the seven counts landed at exactly $5,000, which is the floor s. 32(4) sets for s. 4(1) convictions since a 2023 amendment; the Notar batch post walks through how that floor works and why sub-floor fines usually signal offences that predate it. The $3,500 and $3,000 pleas here sit under it, and with no offence dates in the table, the usual explanation cannot be confirmed.

No row in this batch carries restitution, probation or an attached court document. Recent batches have occasionally arrived with one, as European Autohaus Toronto’s charging document did. No appeal is recorded on any of the seven rows at publication.

Next to the July 24 to August 10 batch, which ran to eleven parties and $141,000 across a spread of charge types, this one is small and uniform. Every count came from the registration line, six as a dealer and one as a salesperson, over four days.