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The B.C. government wants almost $40,000 found in a Richmond condo three years ago forfeited, alleging it is proceeds of money laundering.

The Director of Civil Forfeiture filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court to keep the cash that was bundled and stuffed in a clothes dryer in the home of Hua Wang on May 23, 2017.

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The suit says the condo at 8120 Jones Rd. was first searched in 2015 as part of the RCMP money laundering investigation known as E-Pirate.

“The RCMP seized various money ledgers, cash in the approximate amount of $538,624.90, and miscellaneous personal property from the residence,” says the statement of claim, filed on Jan. 23.

Wang’s son Paul King Jin was a target of the E-Pirate investigation, but was never charged. Jin, Wang, Jin’s father Gong Ping Jia, and niece Yuanyuan Jia have all been named in various civil forfeiture proceedings.

The latest case filed says that “in the course of the E-Pirate money laundering investigation, the RCMP determined that various individuals including Paul King Jin, Gong Ping Jia, Yuanyuan Jia, and Ms. Wang were involved in unlicensed money services, money laundering, illegal gaming houses and/or had used the bank accounts of Ms. Wang and her spouse to transmit money from China to Canada as part of money laundering and unlawful gambling enterprise scheme.”