Zsolt Notar fights his curbsiding charges at trial and loses: $31,000 in fines and $17,000 restitution lead a 36-conviction summer batch

Most rows on OMVIC’s court enforcement table read “Guilty Plea”. Zsolt Notar’s read “Trial”, and the difference cost him. On July 29, 2026, a Toronto court convicted Notar on three counts, two of acting as a dealer without registration under s. 4(1)(a) of the MVDA and one unfair-practice count under ss. 14(1) and 17(1) of the Consumer Protection Act. The two unregistered-dealer counts drew $5,000 and $13,000, the CPA count another $13,000, and the court layered $17,000 in restitution and 24 months of probation onto the two heavier counts. At $48,000 in fines and restitution combined, no single party in the three court batches this site has covered comes out worse. Laura Orgovan, whose three counts mirror Notar’s and carry the same July 29 conviction date, took $15,500.

The pair headline a batch of 36 convictions against 11 parties recorded between July 24 and August 10, 2026, with $141,000 in fines shown on the table and $18,020 in restitution. For contrast, the July 9 to 16 week produced 12 convictions and $26,000, and the July 7 Brampton sitting 21 convictions and $82,500.

Both sides of the counter, in one Kitchener courthouse

On August 5, salesperson Rakan Elhayek pleaded guilty to acting as a salesperson without registration under s. 4(1)(b), a $5,000 fine, while 10599778 Canada Inc. o/a RH Auto Sales pleaded guilty to two counts of retaining an unregistered salesperson under s. 4(3), $3,000 each. The table does not say whether the two files are connected. What the same-day pairing does put on display is the two-sided structure of section 4: the person selling needs a registration, and so does any dealer who lets an unregistered person sell, the prohibition that anchored the discipline case against Guelph Hyundai.

The Toronto list, July 24 and 27

Two Toronto conviction dates account for 23 of the 36 counts:

• 14771737 Canada Inc.: five s. 4(1)(a) counts at $5,000 each, $25,000.
• Ramin Zarif Ravanbakhsh: three s. 4(1)(a) counts at $5,000 each, $15,000.
• Mehul Chopra: seven counts in all. Three s. 4(1)(a) counts at $4,000, three more recorded without a fine amount, and a CPA count concluded as “Fine & Restitution” at $2,000 plus $1,020 restitution.
• Mohanad Bakeer: five counts of trading from a place not authorized by registration under s. 28(4) of O. Reg. 333/08, $2,500 each, $12,500. The offsite trade permit bulletin covers what it takes to trade lawfully away from the registered premises; Bakeer’s five counts top the four this charge drew in the July 9 to 16 batch.
• Nikitakis Anastasios o/a Yuppie Wheels: three counts of a charge absent from the earlier batches, wholesale dealer acting outside its class of registration under s. 21 of O. Reg. 333/08, at $1,000 each. Two counts landed on July 24, one of them with 12 months of probation, and the third on July 27. A wholesale-class dealer is registered to trade with other registrants; each sale to the public steps outside the class and can be charged on its own.

Jules Tolentino (Niagara, July 30) added two s. 4(1)(a) guilty pleas at $5,000 each, and Tirdad Jafarzadeh (Toronto, August 10) closed the window with a $2,500 s. 4(1)(a) plea and a $1,500 CPA plea carrying 24 months of probation.

Two reading notes on the numbers. A 2023 amendment wrote a $5,000 floor into s. 32(4) for s. 4(1) convictions, so the counts here that came in under it point to offences predating the floor; the table is silent on offence dates. The table is also the entire record behind this post. OMVIC publishes these outcomes as rows, without the court files that discipline decisions come with, so questions a reader would naturally ask, starting with whether Notar and Orgovan’s matching Toronto counts arose from one operation, have no answer the rows can give.

What to learn

• Restitution rides on conviction. Notar and Chopra’s outcomes carry $18,020 in restitution on top of fines. A court can order an unregistered seller to repay what the deception took, a remedy the discipline track has no way to impose on a curbsider.
• Trial is a right, not a discount. The two contested files produced $46,500 of the batch’s $141,000 in fines, the two largest single-count fines, and $17,000 of its $18,020 in restitution.
• Class limits are enforced like registration limits. Yuppie Wheels was registered, just not for retail. Three convictions under s. 21 of O. Reg. 333/08 show OMVIC prosecuting the boundary between the wholesale and retail classes, at $1,000 a sale.