FORMER immigration chief Laurence Leung Ming-yin's family stumped up $1.5 million to buy a second house in Canada in 1990, although he had already bought a home there with a $1.76 million government loan.
Official records in Vancouver show the second house was bought in September 1990 under the name of Mr Leung's wife, Kitty Yeung Shuk-ching.
The Leungs bought it for C$560,000 (HK$3.2 million) with a C$300,000 mortgage from Toronto-Dominion Bank. They produced the remaining C$260,000.
Mrs Leung, her son Hugo Leung Pak-hon and her daughter Sylvia Leung Sze-hon later moved into the house while Mr Leung returned to Hong Kong.
The house, in upper-middle class MacKenzie Heights on the city's West Side, was sold for C$580,000 in May 1993, four months after Sylvia Leung was murdered in a suburban college by a bolt shot from a cross-bow.
In April 1991, Mr Leung sold his first Canadian house - bought with the government loan obtained in February 1989.
For eight months, the family owned two homes in Vancouver simultaneously.