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An accused in an alleged Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scam that demanded people pay cash or gift cards has fled to China, according to police.

Haoran Xue, also known as Charlie Xue, is accused of being involved in a scheme to defraud unnamed people of money where fraudsters pose as CRA employees, Mounties, software-company employees or bank investigators.

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According to a B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, unsuspecting individuals were demanded to send money in cash or gift cards to retail mailboxes in B.C. and Ontario. According to the court filings, an RCMP probe found that Xue, in his mid-20s, who at times was using fraudulent ID, set up various mailboxes in the Metro Vancouver area and was retrieving money from them.

The RCMP obtained Xue’s banking records and learned that since January 2019 $1 million has been transferred into and out of his bank accounts.

Xue hasn’t responded to the civil-forfeiture suit that contains allegations not proven in court.