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Charges have been quietly stayed in another major B.C. case allegedly linked to the international drug trade.

In October 2017, the RCMP announced two Metro Vancouver residents had been charged with importing cocaine and trafficking fentanyl after a large drug shipment sent through the Port of Vancouver was seized.

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“These seizures would definitely have impacted the transnational organized crime networks involved,” RCMP Supt. Cal Chrustie said at the time.

Yan Chau “Andrew” Lam was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Sok Wai “Gertrude” Cheong was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking.

The RCMP seized 132 kilograms of cocaine smuggled inside a container arriving from Brazil, as well as 40,000 fentanyl pills found during a subsequent search of a Richmond apartment.

Lam, 50, and Cheong, 44, had been scheduled to go to trial in the new year in provincial court in Richmond.