https://www.scmp.com/rss/328686/feed Darryl Greer is a freelancer reporter in Vancouver. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Caixuan “Summer” Qin and her now-deceased husband once stood accused by the Canadian government of running an underground bank that allegedly laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for transnational organised crime groups, catering to wealthy Chinese gamblers and international drug gangs. But Qin and her husband Jian Jun Zhu, who was shot dead in a Vancouver restaurant in 2020, were never tried or convicted. Canadian prosecutors stayed money laundering and other related charges in November... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3166323/caixuan-qin-chinese-widow-once-ensnared-major?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3166323/caixuan-qin-chinese-widow-once-ensnared-major?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 09 Feb 2022 01:12:28 +0000 When Vancouver-based jeweller and magazine publisher Pasquale Cusano opened shop in 1978, he mostly catered to Europeans, but over the years his customer base shifted towards wealthy Chinese with an insatiable demand for luxury watches worth up to C$1 million (US$746,000) apiece. With foreign fortunes flooding in, Cusano’s Montecristo Jewellers began hearing complaints from customers about taxes on big ticket items they planned to take back to China as gifts. Unlike the European Union with its... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3002965/airport-gift-service-rich-chinese-unravels-leaving?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3002965/airport-gift-service-rich-chinese-unravels-leaving?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:39:08 +0000 For six years, former Chinese banker Lin Jin filed her income taxes as a resident of Canada, having obtained her Canadian citizenship “for reasons of convenience and personal preference” in 2011. But now, in the midst of an audit by the Canada Revenue Agency, she claims it was all a mistake. Lin Jin’s case, laid out in a legal bid to prevent tax collectors pursuing details of her foreign assets, helps illustrate the challenges posed by the phenomenon of reverse migration among wealthy Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2174587/former-chinese-banker-sues-canada-halt-tax-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2174587/former-chinese-banker-sues-canada-halt-tax-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:30:15 +0000 As the man charged in the death of 13-year-old Marrisa Shen made his first public court appearance on Friday in downtown Vancouver, sign-waving protests alongside an emotional vigil were taking place outside the courthouse. Ibrahim Ali, a 28-year-old Syrian refugee, was charged with first-degree murder after his arrest on September 7, more than a year after Shen’s body was discovered in a park in the suburb of Burnaby in July 2017. Near the courthouse, anti-immigration protesters and members of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2164336/protests-and-fears-anti-immigrant-backlash-marrisa?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2164336/protests-and-fears-anti-immigrant-backlash-marrisa?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:45:00 +0000