A former clerk at the Rouge Valley Hospital in Pickering, Ont. has admitted to breaching securities laws by misappropriating the personal information of new mothers and selling it to RESP dealer reps.

According to the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), Shaida Bandali pled guilty to one count of unregistered trading in court on Monday.

She will be sentenced by the judge on Oct. 13.

Bandali acknowledged in court that, between Jan. 1, 2010 and Mar. 31, 2014, she engaged in unregistered trading by repeatedly accessing the confidential personal data of the hospital’s maternity patients, creating lists of prospective clients from that information, and selling the information to RESP dealer reps.

The securities regulator charged Bandali with unregistered trading in the case back in November 2014.

Earlier this year, the OSC also brought charges against a former branch manager with RESP dealer, Knowledge First Financial Inc. (KFFI), Poly Edry; and, a former assistant branch manager at C.S.T. Consultants Inc., Subramaniam Sulur, alleging that they purchased confidential information from Bandali, which they used to generate sales leads.

Edry and Sulur have each been charged with one count of violating securities rules by failing to act fairly, honestly and in good faith with clients, and one count of participating in an unlawful referral arrangement. In additional, Edry’s husband, Gavriel Edry, was charged with one count of unregistered trading for allegedly assisting his wife in gathering and disseminating the confidential information to KFFI sales reps. Those allegations have not been proven. Their next court date is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Old City Hall in Toronto.

In a separate case, a former sales rep with Global RESP Corp., Nellie Acar, was also charged in connection with the allegedly buying stolen maternity patient labels from a registered nurse, Esther Cruz, over a two-and-a-half-year period when she worked at Rouge Valley Hospital and the Scarborough Hospital. Both Acar and Cruz were charged with various offences. Those allegations have not been proven either. Their next scheduled court appearance is Sept. 4 at the courts in Scarborough, Ont.