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“These are serious allegations, and I would call on the prime minister to start looking into this,” Vancouver NDP MP Don Davies said in an interview Wednesday. “The allegations are unproven, but at least from a political point of view, a lot of bells are ringing in this case.”

According to the plaintiff Jiang, Oei told the Chinese investors that by investing through Peschisolido’s legal trust fund they would get an extra layer of confidence in the immigration-investment scheme due to Peschisolido’s reputation “as an MP and big-name lawyer.”

Jiang’s B.C. Supreme Court claim says investors were told Oei “had connections with high-level officials in the government of B.C.” and that any person investing $1 million in Oei’s recycling plant project would be granted Canadian permanent resident status.

“They mentioned their ties to government, very clearly. (Oei) mentioned the premier and high-level federal ministers have ‘very special’ relations with him,” Jiang said in an interview with Postmedia News. “He mentioned Christy Clark, and he mentioned some MPs, including Joe Peschisolido.”

The legal response by Peschisolido and his firm denies any wrongdoing and states that he was unaware of any fraud or breach of trust.

Peschisolido did not respond this week to multiple requests for comment from Postmedia reporters in Ottawa and Vancouver. In a previous interview with Postmedia, Peschisolido said he could not comment on Jiang’s allegations. Peschisolido acknowledged he has been photographed with Paul Oei at political functions, but he maintained Oei was not his client, but his firm’s client.