The Hongcouver | A Vancouver firm offers clients ‘new identities’. Its customers have included Chinese criminals

‘Amicus is the expert you need if you wish to live a life of anonymity’

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Kuang Wan Fang is escorted away at Changle Airport in Fuzhou on September 24, 2015, after arriving from the US on a forced repatriation flight. Vancouver firm Amicus International has claimed Kuang is a client whom it helped obtain Spanish citizenship while imprisoned in the US. Photo: Xinhua

Published: 3:45am, 23 Feb 2017Updated: 2:21pm, 24 Feb 2017

At Vancouver firm Amicus International Consulting, discretion is the key to its business: providing clients with anonymity via “new legal identities”.

Not just new citizenships and passports, but also plausible cover stories. Amicus says it furnishes clients with online profiles, “consistent … on all major social media websites”. And it advises customers on how to stick to their “legend”, with tips such as how to fake an accent without arousing suspicion.

The company says it also arranges overseas transfers of convicts incarcerated in foreign lands.

Who would require such a unique set of services?

The firm promises “extreme confidentiality”. But in case studies listed on its website, Amicus says its clients have included two Chinese fraudsters involved in the theft of more than US$485 million from the Bank of China, which was laundered through the Vancouver real estate markets and Las Vegas casinos between 1991 and 2004.

A LinkedIn profile associated with Amicus International Consulting. The photograph has been anonymised by the South China Morning Post as the identity of the man is unknown. Photo: LinkedIn

When assuming your new cover/alias, your ‘legend’ is the background information that will ‘flesh-out’ your identity, and to ensure it is plausible

Amicus International Consulting

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