B.C. seeks to seize Richmond condo where drug chemicals were found

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Richmond RCMP alleges officers discovered tens of hundreds of {dollars} and precursor chemical substances in luxurious suite

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Simply earlier than Christmas, Richmond RCMP officers entered a luxurious apartment overlooking the Fraser River the place they allege they discovered tens of hundreds of {dollars} and containers filled with chemical substances used to make fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Whereas no prison prices have been filed in opposition to the residents of the unit at 5131 Brighouse Means, the B.C. authorities needs to grab the $3.2 million apartment, alleging hyperlinks to prison exercise.

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The director of civil forfeiture filed a lawsuit earlier this month in opposition to the proprietor Ya Ran Li and her partner Tian Yi Zhang asking that the three-bedroom, four-bathroom unit with an Italian kitchen ought to be forfeited to the federal government.

The assertion of declare says that RCMP officers arrested Zhang, Li, and an unnamed affiliate on Dec. 20, 2023, then searched the waterfront unit.

The lawsuit mentioned Zhang and an affiliate “picked up two containers from the concierge desk of the property strata constructing” that day.

“The primary field contained 5 warmth sealed foil luggage, every weighing roughly 5 kilograms — one bag of iodine and 4 luggage of sodium hydroxide,” the doc alleged. “The second field additionally contained 5 warmth sealed luggage, which weighed roughly 5 kilograms — three luggage of iodine and two luggage of benzo methyl ketone.”

All three of the chemical substances are used to supply methamphetamine.

Zhang and his affiliate carried the containers to the fifth ground and seemed to be headed to 2,760-square-foot apartment when police moved in and arrested them for importing a managed substance into Canada and possession of precursors, the director alleged.

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The containers had been addressed to Li, who was dwelling on the time and likewise taken into custody.

Contained in the suite, police seized the money — $53,650 Canadian, “bundled or packaged in a fashion not in keeping with commonplace banking practices,” in addition to a money counting machine, the lawsuit alleged.

There have been additionally two extra “cardboard containers, every weighing roughly 25 kilograms and containing a white powder” positioned beneath the steps near many of the money. Inside was a chemical known as “4-fluoro anilino-1-boc-piperidine.”

In response to the federal Well being Division, the chemical is used to make fentanyl. It has been restricted since July 2022 after the federal government added it to an inventory of drugs that “could pose a threat to public well being or security … with no professional function being imported into Canada or being distributed in Canada.”

The civil forfeiture director mentioned the apartment ought to be forfeited as a result of it, in addition to “the cash and the machine, are proceeds of an instrument of illegal exercise.”

The crimes alleged embody importing, producing and possessing managed substances for the aim of trafficking, in addition to conspiracy, cash laundering and possession of the proceeds of crime and failure to declare taxable revenue.

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The apartment was listed on the market within the spring of 2021 for $3.5 million and was marketed as having “unobstructed river views and mountain views from big decks.” Li purchased it for $300,000 much less, obtained a mortgage, and took possession in September 2021.

Neither Li nor Zhang have filed statements of defence within the case. The allegations haven’t any been confirmed.

The RCMP just lately revealed that Canadian transnational criminals at the moment are producing methamphetamine and fentanyl in superlabs throughout the nation to export to the U.S. and abroad — a problem Postmedia investigated in a sequence known as Deadly Exports.

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