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The family of a Vancouver gangster murdered in Mexico 14 months ago is suing RBC for refusing to pay out a half-million dollar life insurance policy.

Jodh Manj, 31, was gunned down in the parking lot of a commercial complex in the Mexico City neighbourhood of Santa Fe on Dec. 6, 2018. No one has been charged.

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Manj, who grew up on Vancouver’s south slope, was associated with the United Nations gang and had been spending long periods of time in Mexico for years.

He bought the RBC life insurance policy in February 2009, according to court documents filed last week in B.C. Supreme Court by his relatives Kirpal, Aman and Yasbir Manj.

The three said in their suit that RBC Insurance sent out a series of letters on July 9, 2019 refusing to pay out the $500,000 death benefit.

The Manj relatives claim the insurance company is in breach of contract and “was obligated to pay to the plaintiffs $500,000 upon the death of the life insured.”