An NDP cabinet minister attended one of the Lower Mainland’s first major Lunar New Year banquets since the pandemic began, where guests included a Chinese military veteran and the president of a society under an RCMP national security investigation.
The Canadian Community Service Association celebrated the upcoming end of the Year of the Tiger and beginning of the Year of the Rabbit at River Rock Casino Resort’s show theatre on Jan. 7.
Yuan, dressed casually in red from head to toe, served in the People’s Liberation Army, is president of the Canada-China Friendship Promotion Association and a former owner of the Tiger Arms firearms store in Port Coquitlam. Yuan’s name appeared in a February 2016 Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch compliance division analysis of cash buy-ins conducted at the River Rock casino cages. Yuan, whose occupation was listed as “real estate company owner,” bought-in for a total $4.19 million in cash during the 2015 calendar year. Eight of the 18 high rollers on the list were in real estate, property development or construction.
A Dec. 5 report from China-focused human rights organization Safeguard Defenders said that the Wenzhou Public Security Bureau set up a police station in Vancouver. The following week, the RCMP confirmed that a national security investigation was underway. Officers interviewed neighbours of the society’s clubhouse across from Aberdeen Centre.
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