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A former Metro Vancouver realtor who has been leasing luxury properties to B.C. gangsters is behind bars in the U.S. charged with international money laundering.

Omid Mashinchi, 35, appeared in a Boston courtroom last month and was ordered held pending trial.

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U.S. authorities allege that he wired hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money over several months last year to banks in Massachusetts through one of his company’s accounts.

The indictment in the case says that Mashinchi knew the funds involved “represented the proceeds of crime” and “that such transportation, transmission and transfer was designed in whole or in part to conceal and disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership and the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity.”

The underlying crime alleged is “the manufacture, importation, sale and distribution of a controlled substance.”