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A number of Chinese investors and B.C. real estate professionals are suing Richmond lawyer Hong Guo, alleging $2.1 million in losses, after Guo says more than $7.5 million was stolen from her trust account.

Guo is a prominent immigration and real estate lawyer in Richmond. The complainants, many of them investors from China, say Guo failed to pay taxes and complete real estate transactions with money held for them in the trust account.

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Guo says she had trouble meeting her obligations because she was a victim of theft.

In court filing, Guo alleges her former bookkeeper and legal assistant developed a relationship beyond their office work and conspired with accomplices to unlawfully remove the money from her trust account. Some of the millions missing from Guo’s account were converted to cash in a B.C. casino before the bookkeeper and legal assistant fled to China, a civil suit filed by Guo in B.C. Supreme Court alleges.