Former WV

lawyer
of tax

oullty
fraud

FORMER WEST Vancouver lawyer Gordon Hazlewood

has been found guilty on all

but one of 269 counts of in-

come tax evasion and claiming fraudulent tax losses totall-

ing $21 million.

Justice J.E. Hall delivered the
long-awaited verdict Wednesday
in B.C. Supreme Court, which
was filled to capacity with Reve-
nue Canada representatives,
Hazlewood’s wife and_ brother,
and some of the over 150 former
clients Hazlewood defrauded with
his tax losses scheme. _

The scheme, a series of ‘‘four
for one’’ joint venture deals
Hazlewood executed in the 1980s,
‘attracted clients with the promise
that their investments would be
returned four times over in tax
losses and refunds.

But the monies that Hazlewood
claimed would be used to develop
real estate and resource industries
went instead to his’ own North
Vanconver financing business, The
write-offs were subsequently
disallowed by Ottawa.

Hazlewood’s clients included
former Canucks players Kevin
McCarthy and Patrik Sundstrom,
who testified against Hazlewoud
during the nine-week trial.

But the bulk of investors, ac-
cording to Revenue Canada it-
vestigators Juergen Leske an:
Nick Lianza, were ‘ordinary
working citizens.”

Some clients testified that they
never knowingly dealt with
Hazlewood; several RCMP foren-
sic tests concluded that certain
joint venture agreements contain-
ed fraudulert signatures.

Hazlewood acted in his own
defence throughout the trial and
tried to prove his credibility by

By Robin Brunet
Contributing Writer

asserting that he:

@ had found a $10 million gold
mine in the Yukon with the aid of
a dowsing rod;

@ had been appointed financial
advisor for Ghana, West Africa,
in 1987;

e@ had company assets in excess
of $400 million;

@ had muhki-million-dollar deal-
ings in 16 countries.

Hazlewood was the only witness
to testify for the defence.

After the verdict was read,
Crown prosecutor Ian McKinnon
suggested that Hazlewood be
placed in custody until sentence is
passed next month.

“*He has far more assets outside
Canada than inside; the opportu-
nity for him to travel to a country
with no extradition treaty is too

, great a temptation,”’ he said, ad-
ding that mere seizure of
Hazlewood'’s passport could prove
useless because ‘the may have any
number of passports.”’

But Hazlewood said that he had
“real” assets outside Canada as
opposed to cash.

‘My home is in West Van-
couver; I have a Canadian pass-
port and no other.”’

Justice Hall asked Hazlewood
to surrender his passport, sign a
$50,000 recognizance order, and
report weekly to a bail supervisor
until the June 3 sentencing.

~ NEWS photo Mike Waketleld

FREDA RUMBOLD and Evy Ebbehoy of Mitten Realty ready trays of carnations for the annual
Multiple Sclerosis Carnation Campaign which is taking place until Saturday throughout the
province. North Shore realtors will be in local malis hoping to surpass their goal for this year of

$17,000.

Harcourt reveals park plans

Premier says wilderness areas to double by year 2000

NORTH VANCOUVER’S Lynn Headwaters Park provid-
ed the backdrop Wednesday for an announcement by

Premier Mike Harcourt to

wilderness areas.

Harcourt, who was at the park
with Environment Minister John
Cashore and Forest Minister Dan
Miller, said the government's new
protected areas strategy will dou-
ble parks and wilderness areas in
B.C. by the year 2000.

Under the new program, 23 new
parks or wilderness areas will be
designated this year.

Decisions on another 21 areas
being considered for protection,
including the Khutzeymateen,

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By Michael Becker
News Reporter

Beginning with today's
North Shore News edition,
your community newspaper in-
corporates a 10% recycled
newsprint content.

The move makes the News
the first newspaper’ in the
Lower Mainland market area
to regularly incorporate
locally-sourced recycled-con-
tent newsprint in its product.

Said News publisher Peter
Speck, ‘‘It’s been years in the
making. I’m just delighted that
it’s finally taking place. I’ve
been thumping the drum on
this for 20 years.

‘*In many places in the U.S.
they’ve. passed mandatory
recycled newsprint require-
ments. There is a high demand
for: it. As Lower Mainland
Publishing Ltd. we're deter-
mined to incorporate a
substantial portion of recycled
newsprint in all of our press
runs as supplies permit.”’

Until recently, recycled
newsprint was available only in
Eastern Canada.

But last year an $80 million
newsprint recycling plant open-
ed in Coquitlam.

The Newstech Recycling
plant is the first facility of its
kind in Western Canada to
produce pulp from _ recycled
fibre.

Fletcher Challenge Canada is

NEWS PUBLISHER
Peter Speck

committed to buying 61,250
tonnes of de-inked pulp an-
nually from Newstech. The
de-inked pulp is blended with
virgin pulp to make newsprint
containing recycled material at
the Fletcher Challenge Elk
Falls and Crofton pulp and
paper mills.

Newstech plans to produce
122,200 tonnes of de-inked
pulp each year. The facility
plans to recycle about 140,000
tonnes of old newspapers and
old magazines each year.

The magazines and newspa-
pers are collected from B.C.,
Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, California and the
Midwest.

The North Shore News uses
approximately 30 tonnes of

OPERATIONS MANAGER
Chris Johnson

newsprint weekly.

Said Chris Johnson, North
Shore News operations manag-
er, ‘“‘We contribute a lot to the
waste stream. Anything we can
do to contribute in the way of
recycling is good for the en-
vironment and good for the
community.””

The News currently recycies
all of its excess newspapers,
office paper and all of its
photographic chemicals.

ft also recycles plastic, glass
and metal. All in-office needs
are met by using recycled paper
products.

‘The News regularly covers

‘environmental issues. For these
-combined efforts the News was

awarded a GVRD Recycler of
the Year award in 1991.

increase B.C.’s park and

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Spruce Lake and the Middle Stein,
‘ will also be made by 1993.

An additional 140 areas will be
assessed for possible designation
between now and the year 2000.

“Our government was elected
with a mandade to double B.C.'s
park and wilderness areas,'’ said
Harcourt. ‘‘We made a commit-
ment to strike a balance between
protecting our unique parks and
wilderness areas and providing
greater stability for our economy,
resource industries and jobs.”’

Harcourt said the provincial
government’s Protected Areas
Strategy is designed to protect
about 12% of the province’s parks
and wilderness areas by the year
2000.

The program will incorporate
all existing protected areas pro-
jects. The recommendations and
goals of the various projects will
be coordinated through the Pro-
tected Areas Strategy.

“This new strategy will give
B.C. one of the most cormmprehen-
sive and systematic plans for pro-
tected areas in North America,"’
said Harcourt. ‘‘By helping pro-
vide a framework within which
local planning can go ahead, the
strategy will be vital to the work
of the Commission on Resources
and Environment.”’

Cashore said the Parks and
Wilderness for the 1990s plan is
the first step of the new Protected
Areas Strategy. It lays out a
timetable for deciding on 184
study areas ranging from fess than

46 This new
strategy will give
BC. one of the
most

comprehensive and
systematic plans for
protected areas in
North America. 99

— Premier Mike Harcourt

10 hectares to more than one mil-
lion hectares.

Miller said the government's
priority is to balance environmen-
tal and economic concerns in the
province.

“In order to provide greater
certainty for focal communities
and resource industries, we'll be
dealing first with areas where
resource use is planned for the
near future,”’ said Miller.

“This allows us to keep our op-
tions open and consider how to
best meet our needs to protect the
environment and the economy.”’

Harcourt said the appointment
of the new Resources Compensa-
tion Commission will complement
the decisions of the Protected
Areas Strategy by ensuring that
resource industries affected by
government decisions get fair
compensation.

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