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A B.C. man connected to the Wolf Pack gang alliance has been sentenced to two years in a U.S. prison after admitting to international money laundering.

Omid Mashinchi, a former Vancouver realtor who was leasing high-end condos to Lower Mainland gangsters, pleaded guilty in July to moving cash across the border for Canadian drug gangs.

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On Wednesday, he was sentenced in a Boston courtroom to 24 months in jail and ordered to pay almost $30,000 US in fines and damages.

U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton also added a year of supervised release to Mashinchi’s term, which he could apply to serve in Canada.

Mashinchi was charged in a sealed indictment in January 2018 and arrested in April, when he flew to the U.S. to visit family. He has been in custody since then.

U.S. court documents said that Mashinchi transferred funds from a bank in Vancouver to a bank in Boston over several months in 2017, knowing that the money — almost $240,000 US — was derived from drug trafficking.