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WEDNESDAY
August 21, 1996

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“NORTH Vancouver RCMP Const. Benoit Rodrigue displays one of three recent-
onfiecated counterteit $10 bilis beneath the real thing. See story page 5.

and Maureen Curtis

BRAKES on a truck and.
trailer that crashed and
killed two last year in
North Vancouver were:
j broken and. badly adjust-
a coronet’s inquest
eard Tuesday.
Coroner, Larry Campbell is
ing the circumstances of the deaths
of:two' men who died when’ a semis
mailer’ truck lost contro! during rush

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hour on the steep Cut section of
Highway 1. ;

Six vehicles were caught in the fall-
out as the truck hurded downhill. The
truck’s loaded container broke away
from the vehicle and crashed into an
overpass.

Thirty-seven-year-old — Baljinder
Singh, the Surrey driver of the semi-
trailer cruck, died in the crash on Aug.
16, 1995.

Burnaby. resident: Wayde Victor
Police, 34, died after the car he was
driving, was struck by the truck.

The coroner's inquest is scheduled
to hear 15 witnesses this week,
North Vancouver-based | motor

vehicle

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WEATHER
Thursday: Suniy
High 26°C, iow 8-13°C.

Man wanted in Toronto area apprehended i

North Vancouver on $20,000 fraud charge

By lan Noble
News Reporter

AN immigration consultant. .
from Ontario was arrested in.
North Vancouver and sent :
back to Toronto to face.a
fraud charge Tuesday.’

Dukhien. Yi allegedly defrauded a
Korean of approximately $20,000, say the
RCMP in Milton, Ontario.

Shortly“after the client made the pay
ment,.Yi left the Toronto area to reside in
North Vancouver. +}. Loe

The RCMP charged Yi with fraud over ,
$5,000, Yi was arrested on a Canada-wide,
warrant Thursday after; being in B.C, for.
three months, said North Vancouver RCMP

catherine Galliford we

When arrested, the immigration consul-
s¢ he
sesmed to have) difficulty. understanding
and speaking. English, said Galliford.* ‘

Yi fived in‘ the 900-block -of Premier
Street. His wife and a sister live in B.C.,.s
said. , oe ve

Milton RCMP Const. Michele Paradis

. said Yi landed in Vancouver in..1994. He

then headed to 7 nto fora

_as an immigration ‘consultant.

When the three-month investigati
into Yi, began, che. travelled. to Britis

inspector Jay

Northcott spoke in detail abour the
different axles on the truck and trailer
and measurements. he'd taken on

them,

Brake parts were found to be bro-.
ken inside one of the brakes on the

truck and brakes w

adjusted.

not correctly

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At the scene :of the accident

Northcott said he could tell there was.”

something wrong with the trailer, It

had been worked on. recently. The.

pushrods had been cut too short and
some angles were incorrect. Some
brake shoes on the trailer were no
longer contacting, the brake drums.

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Columbia, Paradis said. ;
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ere’s no indication that Yi continued.

his immigration :consulting business in,
“North Vancouver, she added.

The police are seeking the as:
people who may-have dealt +
gration clients... | pe

Contact REMP Const.:John' Simpson at.
the Milton detachment at 905-876-9638.

Paradis can’t. say whether police. believe:
Yi-allegedly committed other acts. of fraud . .
because her answer’ may prejudice tl

tance of
ias immi-

Barry, Thomas, the staff ‘sergeant.-in.-
charge, of thé immigration and passport sec-
tion for Milron RCMP, said people in:many .
ethic groups aré too’ embarrassed *.10 “
approach police ‘when , they ‘have. been ..
defrauded. 9 0. oy oy a

Often, people ,hand. over . their.
life’s: savings to ‘an immigration ‘¢
to get into Canada, Thomas said.

However, “We're hoping with thi
more people will come forward,” he
., Thomas ‘explained anyone; can “be. an te,
immigration /consultant.."He “added: that:
“there are no ‘regulations governing who,
‘may be an/ immigration consultant,-N
qualification eeded and ‘no rests ar
givens. oP : 7 :
~, *Right now,” he said, “it's : open,
‘Phe jurisdiction. of the’ Milton RCMP.

most of metropolitan Toronto, he:

i) * NEWS phot Brad Ledwidge

AN inquest is being held to investigate the circuimistances of the:

deaths of two men

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last year when a truck crashed on the Cu