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<\/p>\nHe says it took significant negotiation to arrange the trip, and the incident affected \u201cpolice-to-police trust\u201d between authorities in the two countries.<\/p>\n
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Tsui says it happened after the relationship had already \u201cstarted to take a turn\u201d in 2017, when the Canadian government denied China\u2019s request to station two Chinese liaison officers in Vancouver, on top of two already based in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
He says the second development that caused a \u201creally significant impact\u201d to the relationship was the December 2018 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the behest of United States authorities attempting to extradite her on fraud charges that were resolved with a deferred prosecution agreement, allowing her return to China.<\/p>\n
The testimony comes on the second day of Majcher\u2019s trial in Vancouver. The former Mountie pleaded not guilty Monday to one count of committing \u201cpreparatory acts\u201d for an offence under Canada\u2019s Security of Information Act.<\/p>\n
The prosecution alleges Majcher had prepared to coerce B.C. resident Hongwei Sun, also known as Kevin Sun, into returning to China, where he was wanted for financial crimes, for the benefit or at the direction of the Chinese government.<\/p>\n
The trial follows a B.C. Supreme Court ruling last month in which Justice Martha Devlin found Majcher\u2019s warrantless arrest at Vancouver\u2019s airport in 2023 was unconstitutional, occurring without reasonable and probable grounds.<\/p>\n
Devlin found the grounds for Majcher\u2019s arrest \u201camount only to a hunch or generalized suspicion\u201d that he engaged in a conspiracy to assist China\u2019s efforts in a manner that would contravene Canadian law, the March 26 ruling said.<\/p>\n
The ruling described a police report that said Sun was wanted in China for financial crimes \u201cranging into the hundreds of millions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
It said the report indicated Sun, a Vancouver resident, \u201callegedly used the proceeds of his financial crimes to purchase large amounts of real estate\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n
Tsui testified Monday that he first heard about Sun in 2016, when Chinese authorities alerted him to a \u201chistorical fraud\u201d case dating back to the late 1990s or early 2000s in which an individual had allegedly defrauded the Industrial Commercial Bank of China of RMB$2.8 billion, now worth about $560 million.<\/p>\n
Chinese authorities believed about $120 million had left China, alleging Sun had taken it, and indicating he was living in the Vancouver area, Tsui said.<\/p>\n
Chinese authorities had initially asked the RCMP to arrest Sun, but Tsui said they did not provide sufficient information for Mounties to make a determination.<\/p>\n
Tsui said Chinese authorities then asked if they could speak to Sun, prompting a request to Mounties in Vancouver to find him, but he refused to attend a meeting.<\/p>\n
The RCMP then advised Chinese authorities that the Mounties were halting work on the file in February or March 2017, officially closing it a year later, Tsui said.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 21, 2026.<\/p>\n
Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He says it took significant negotiation to arrange the trip, and the incident affected \u201cpolice-to-police trust\u201d between authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-619704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}