Stelianos Psaroudakis initially claimed to have been seriously injured on a trail in the Bragg Creek area in the west of Calgary by barbed wire stretched across the trail. His bike, which he left behind because of the accident, is also said to have been stolen. He collected money on the Gofundme platform to get his bike back. However, Psaroudakis' story was full of holes from the outset and members of the local mountain bike community continually uncovered evidence that Psaroudakis could be a fraud.

Confessed: Accident on quad bike, crash into pasture fence

Now the Alberta RCMP - the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Canada's westernmost prairie province - has uncovered the case. Stelianos Psaroudakis has turned himself in to police and admits that the accident is a lie. Psaroudakis, as NSMB and Global News report, was riding a quad bike at another location and had lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a pasture fence.

The RCMP are praising the local mountain biking community in clearing up the lies. Psaroudakis was temporarily remanded in custody and is now charged with fraud for under $5000, with a court hearing set for August 22. The funds raised on Gofundme have been returned and Psaroudakis has been banned from the platform.