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Another thing that caught their attention was a spreadsheet — or “score sheet” — on a computer. The title of the document, in Chinese characters, said “America Canada Travel.”

It contained a running log of suspected smuggling incidents dating back to 2011, including names of foreign nationals, accomplices in the alleged scheme, dates, and phone numbers.

All told, investigators counted 932 individuals who they believe were smuggled across the border between 2011 and 2016.

When those names were run through the federal database, 343 were found to have entered Canada with 330 of them making refugee claims — mostly in Etobicoke, but a few in B.C. Seven had entered the U.S. The remaining 602 could not be accounted for.

“If the individual gets smuggled into Canada and never comes forward to present themselves, CBSA has no idea they even exist and they are in Canada living underground for some reason,” an investigator wrote.

During the search of Kong’s house, a number of immigration documents were uncovered, as well as a business card describing Kong as a “refugee consultant.”

Kong told investigators he had been helping people with permanent residency extensions and other immigration applications but acknowledged he was not a licensed or registered consultant.

Kong insisted he had stopped smuggling people after his arrest in 2013.

When presented with evidence from the alleged June 13, 2015, smuggling incident involving the group of nine, “he admitted that he was scared to go down to the border so someone else did the pick up,” an investigator wrote.