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B.C. court hears Chinese police went ‘missing’ for hours during trip to Vancouver

During the trial of former Mountie William Majcher, liaison officer Peter Tsui testified that three Chinese Ministry of Public Security officers went "missing" for six hours during a 2018 RCMP-escorted visit to Vancouver, raising RCMP concerns of illicit repatriation.
In 2016, Chinese authorities alerted Tsui to a "historical fraud" case involving about $2.8 billion in losses from the Industrial Commercial Bank, now worth about $560 million, allegedly involving Vancouver resident Hongwei Sun.
Relations "started to take a turn" in 2017 when Canada denied China's request for additional liaison officers; the December 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou caused a "really significant impact" on police-to-police trust.
Former Mountie Majcher pleaded not guilty Monday to committing "preparatory acts" under Canada's Security of Information Act, with prosecutors alleging he prepared to coerce Sun into returning to China for the government's benefit.
Justice Martha Devlin previously ruled Majcher's warrantless 2023 airport arrest unconstitutional, finding grounds "amount only to a hunch or generalized suspicion" that he conspired to assist China, according to a March 26 ruling.

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B.C. court hears Chinese police went ‘missing’ for hours during trip to Vancouver

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court trial of a former RCMP officer accused of a security offence by working for China has heard testimony describing how three Chinese police

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