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B.C. politics already has its dark money — donations that are difficult to trace back to an actual donor — but the free-for-all when it comes to political fundraising in this province has given rise to a murky practice: raising campaign cash from some dark corners of the world.

Its name seems innocuous enough: G&E Studio.

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It’s just one of the companies identified among the 76,887 donations that the B.C. Liberal party received between 2005 and 2015.

G&E donated $5,000 to the Liberal party less than three weeks after a 2015 Reuters investigation identified the company as part of “a global radio web structured in a way that obscures its majority shareholder: state-run China Radio International.”

A station in Vancouver — CHMB AM1320 — broadcasts G&E’s state-approved content. CHMB is owned and operated by Mainstream Broadcasting.

Before her election in 2013, International Trade and Minister Teresa Wat was the president and CEO of Mainstream.