B.C. man wanted for money laundering in connection with Vietnamese crime group
Credit to Author: Kim Bolan| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:27:57 +0000
Cong Dinh, wanted for money laundering
A $50,000 reward is being offered to catch a former Burnaby man wanted for money laundering as part of a Vietnamese organized crime group operating in Canada and the U.S.
Cong Dinh, 32, is believed to have fled to Vietnam before charges were laid against him and an associate in 2013.
On Tuesday, RCMP Chief Supt. Keith Finn, who is in charge of federal policing in B.C., said police have partnered with the BOLO program to launch a campaign that will hopefully lead to the capture of Dinh.
Dinh’s Goring Street home was raided by the RCMP in 2013 in connection with the joint U.S.-Canada investigation.
Dinh has been charged with five counts of laundering the proceeds of crime and one count of possession of the proceeds of crime.
The RCMP partnered with the California Division of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the international money laundering investigation in which millions of dollars of drug money was involved.
California resident Minh Nguyen, also 32, pleaded guilty in California to money laundering and drug trafficking in connection with the same investigation.
The reward is only valid until June 2020 and will be administered by Crimestoppers.
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