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A major Vancouver drug importer with international connections was found stabbed and burned in Colombia a day after flying into the country last month.

The body of Richard Yen Fat Chiu, 47, was found June 20 near the city of Cúcuta, close to the Colombian border with Venezuela. Sources told Postmedia that he had only arrived in the country on June 19.

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Chiu was targeted in Vancouver Police investigations called Project Tar and Project Trunkline into suspected drug traffickers that laundered their money though Richmond’s Silver International — the underground bank that was part of Canada’s largest money-laundering investigation.

Court documents from the VPD investigations obtained by Postmedia say “Mr. Chiu has been the subject of police investigations for money laundering and drug trafficking.”

Projects Tar and Trunkline overlapped with the E-Pirate probe into Silver International. But charges against the bank and its owners were mysteriously stayed last November.