Steven Vikash Chand

Police originally said that he had adopted the alias Abdul Shakur, which later turned out to be the name his apartment was rented under.

As a result of preferred direct indictment by the Crown Attorney on September 24, 2007, Chand was re-arrested and charged with counseling to commit fraud over $5,000 for the benefit of a terrorist group.^[3]

Police informant Mubin Shaikh and Chand had known each other prior to the alleged plots,^{[citation needed]} and he is one of the suspects that Shaikh has publicly stated should not have been arrested,^[4] and that "the guy is not what they're making him out to be, not at all".^{[citation needed]}

Chand is represented by Michael A. Moon.^[5]

Chand was being tried simultaneously with Asad Ansari and Fahim Ahmad in Brampton until Ahmad pleaded guilty. In the trial he is identified as having been a secondary leader at the training camps (after Fahim Ahmed).^[6]

He and Ansari were both found guilty on June 23, 2010 of knowingly participating in a terrorist group and Chand was also found guilty of counselling to commit fraud over $5,000 for the benefit of a terrorist group. The court heard that he had helped set up a training camp in Washago, Ontario, in December 2005. They were the only members of the 18 to be tried by jury rather than by a lone judge.^[7]

On 26 November 2010, Chand, age 29, was given a ten-year sentence, reduced for time served to 7 months and 10 days, in Ontario Superior Court, for his part in the terrorist plot.^[8]