Friday, April 10, 1992 - North Shore News ~ 5 NEWS BRIEFS _ FA-S-T COLLISION REPAIRS Fraud gets CALL THE PROFESSIONALS AT six-month JAYLCORMOTIVE 1959 LTD. 7 FREE RENTAL COURTESY CARS jail term B.C.A.A. APPROVED — A.R.A. CERTIFIED A 40-YEAR-OLD man of .C.B.C. VENDOR FOR ALL MAKES no fixed address was QUALITY WORKMANSHIP sentenced April 1 in North JAYLORMOTIVE” TRUSTWORTHY SERVICE Vancouver provincia! court 174 PEMBERTON AVE. NORTH VAN. SC'S¥eATON rs 985-7455 Mian beaten A 31-YEAR-OLD Vancouver man was rushed to Lions Gate Hospital's intensive care ward following an assault early Tuesday. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the police had followed a suspicious vehicle from the lower Capilano Road area to the Lions Gate Bridge. The vehi- cle was stopped at approximately 3:49 a.m. An in- vestigating officer walked up to the truck and noticed that the two male occupants inside were covered in blood. While the officer was questioning the pair, the police were alerted to the location of the victim, who had been to six months in jail on various fraud-related charges. Che Keung Ling pleaded guilty left on the waterfront under the Lions Gate Bridge. A man suffering head injuries was found wandering by the BC Rail tracks near the bridge. The two suspects, a 27-year-old Vancouver man and a 26-year-old Vancouver man, were questioned and releas- ed pending further investigation. The victim was released from hospital Wednesday in good condition. to obtaining a microwave oven by false pretences and attempting to obtain merchandise by false pretences on two other occasions. The three incidents occurred in May and June of 1991 in North Vancouver City. Judge Bill Rodgers handed out three concurrent six-month jail sentences for the offences. A Cantonese interpreter was re- quired for the court proceedings. Drugs seized FOUR PEOPLE face drug-related charges following 2 joint investigation by North Vancouver RCMP and West Vancouver Police drug squads. According to a West Vancouver Police spokesman, the police squads searched a home on Adamnac Street in Vaacouver at approximately 10 p.m. on April 3. The officzrs seized 20 grams of cuvaine, two grams of hashish and arrested four people: @ Paige Paddington, 24, faces charzes of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of hashish. @ Gregory A. Roycroft, 28, faces charges of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of hashish. @ Scott R. Eichendorf, 26, of Port Moody, and Darry! Omeasoo, 26 of Abbotsford, each face a charge of BMW possession of cocaine. Tax fraud trial ends Decision expected May 6 on charges against ex-WV lawyer THE NINE-WEEK crimi- nal trial of former West Vancouver lawyer Gordon Hazlewood, charged with $21 million in tax fraud, ended Monday in B.C. Supreme Court following a two-day final submission made by Hazlewood, who acted in his own defence. By Robin Brunet Contributing Writer Mr. Justice J.E. Hall will reconvene court May 6 to pass judgment on Hazlewood, who could face five to 10 years in jail if found guilty on charges laid against him in connection with allegedly operating phony joint venture schemes in the early 1980s. Revenue Canada’s charges stem partly from an examina-ion of Hazlewood’s company doci'ments, 45 boxes (containing 230,000 pages) of which investigators seiz- ed from his North Shore offices in the fall of 1987. According to Revenue Canada, Hazlewood’s ‘‘four for one” joint venture deals attracted clients with the premise that their investments would be returned four times over in tax losses and refunds. But instead of going towards commercial and industrial devel- opment, an estimated $1.6 million of the investment money, Revenue Canada claims, was used by Hazlewood to finance his own business. During the trial various clients, NHL players, including several testify appeared in court to against Hazlewood. Several RCMP forensic experts also testified that certain joint venture agreements contained fraudulent signatures, Crown counsel completed its case during the final week of Feb- tuary; since then, Hazlewood has claimed the document seizure hurt his ability to present a proper defence. Last week Hazlewood accused Prosecutors Ian McKinnon and Valerie Hartney ‘‘of subverting the witnesses to so-called inter- view procedures.”’ “Were they told,’ he asked, ‘that Hazlewood forged docu- ments or pocketed money from joint ventures? It may have col- ored the testimony.” He also attempted to illustrate the extent and viability of his businesses, claiming he was a fi- nancial advisor of Ghana, West Africa; had organized a $200 mil- lion joint venture with the gov- ernment of Poland to complete all new federal hospitals in that country; and struck a $100 million German joint venture deal involv- ing the depreciation of medical equipment. Although Justice Hall main- taineéd Revenue Canada’s five- year investigation of Hazlewood and the interview procedures of the prosecutors were sound, Hazlewood has filed a lawsuit against investigators Juergen Leske and Nick Lianza. 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