Group based in Chinese graft suspect Michael Ching’s office helped stage big Toronto gala for PM contender Trudeau
Ching travelled from Vancouver for 2014 fundraiser, joining Liberal leader on stage at third major event involving Tru-Youths United that Justin Trudeau is known to have attended
UPDATE: Michael Ching Mo Yeung has commenced legal proceedings against South China Morning Post in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Mr Ching alleges in his lawsuit that this article contains false and defamatory statements, and that the conduct of South China Morning Post and its reporter was malicious, reprehensible, high-handed, and blameworthy.
Tru-Youths United, a political organisation based in Chinese graft suspect Michael Ching Mo Yeung’s office, helped Canada’s Liberal Party stage a major fundraiser in Toronto, representing the third large Tru-Youths-linked event known to have been attended by prime ministerial contender Justin Trudeau.
A photo shows that Ching - a wealthy Vancouver developer who is wanted by China for alleged embezzlement and is seeking Canadian refugee status - travelled to Toronto and joined Trudeau on stage at the June 15, 2014, gala at the Sheraton Centre Hotel. More than 200 Tru-Youths volunteers are said to have helped run the official Liberal Party event.
The South China Morning Post on Wednesday revealed Tru-Youths United’s links to Ching, and that Liberal leader Trudeau had attended at least two of its events in Vancouver, attended by thousands of supporters from the Chinese community. The group’s 2013 certificate of incorporation, obtained by the Post, shows it was headquartered in Ching’s office at 4030-8171 Ackroyd Rd in Richmond, British Columbia, and that Liberal special advisor Wang Ting Ting was a director, alongside Ching’s teenage daughter, Linda Ching, and three others.
Trudeau is in a three-way race to become prime minister at the October 19 election with the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair and Conservative incumbent Stephen Harper.
