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Allegations involve West Van target

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com

TWO men are slated for a court appearance
today in connection with the alleged extortion
of a West Vancouver resident.

Ali Dehghan, 30, of North Vancouver, and Ali Torkladani, 27, of
Burnaby, are charged with allegedly extorting money on June 22 from
Mahamood Khan.

The charged men are not in custody and are slated for a court appear-
ance today to set a date for trial in North Vancouver provincial court.

According, to a search warrant, the two accused men went to Khan's
British Properties’ home in June and demanded money. They were sent
there by another man who said Khan owed him money.

Khan negotiated a deal with the money collectors. He agreed to pay
the men $15,000 for not hurting him. Dehghan and Torkladani wi co)
receive $20,000 from the man who sent them to collect money from
Khan relating to a business dealing. Khan does business setting up camps
for oil rigs in Alberta, according to the search warrant.

A week later, Khan posed for a Polaroid photograph in which he
agreed to kneel down, close his eyes, nave his hands duct taped, have a

un put to his head and a knife to this throat. Torkladani held both

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iver dies near Whytectif

Katharine Hamer
News Reporter khamer@nsnews.com

THE waters off Whytecliff Park, a popular div-
ing spot, have claimed another life.

Marciano Chua, 27, trom Richmond, perished in a diving mishap at
Whytecliff Sunday morning in West Vancouver. Another diver, 28-year-old
Frederick Dee of Burnaby, was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital

with non-life threatening injuries.
Chua was one of a group of five students from Burnaby-based Ocean

Quest Water Sports taking part in an advanced open water diving class 180 . « .
metres (590 ft.) frem shore. The divers were split into two “buddy Fit to fi ht fire
groups” of two and three, with qwo registered instructors as well as staff i

AFTER just two years on active duty, North Vancouver's Andrea Belczyk broke the women’s world
Tronble page 3 record time in the Firefighter Combat Challenge. See story page 1

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