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The B.C. Supreme Court consent order stated that the cash and other assets “are preserved until judgment is rendered in this action after a trial on the merits, or until further order of this court.”

Guajardo, the father, listed as retired, has not been charged with an offence from the investigation, according to the court documents. The threshold for proving a civil claim is lower than for a criminal conviction, a balance of probabilities rather than beyond a reasonable doubt.

No response has been filed and the lawsuit contains allegations that have not been proven in court.

Found at the apartment was more than $3.2 million in cash, most of it in Canadian dollars, according to the court documents. Just under $20,000 was in U.S. dollars and another $6,300 was Australian currency.

The cash, bundled with elastic bands, was found in more than 30 packages, including in envelopes, backpacks, supermarket bags, boxes and duffel bags. Some of the cash was vacuum-sealed in plastic bags.

Also found at the apartment was small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine and lidocaine.

In 2018, the Australian federal police and the investigation division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a methamphetamine trafficking investigation. RCMP assisted with the investigation in early 2019.

In June 2018, when Guajardo, the father, was attempting to fly out of Australia, the federal police located photos on his cellphone of a vacuum-sealed bag containing a block of white powder believed to be cocaine. The photos were taken in the vicinity of a southwestern Australian property, where Nasser Abo Abdo allegedly resided, according to court documents.