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By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter |
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HUNDREDS of bikers
slowly filed out ofa
memorial service on
Tuesday in West
Vancouver,

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played suftly through aM outside
speaker,

Within minutes of the song's
completion, the roar af’ about 200
shiny Harkey Davidson motareyeles
tilled Marine Drive at 18th Street,
The biker parade was on.

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By Anna f Marie le D'Angelo
News BR ranete W dann lo@nsnews. com

SIAMAK Ashrafinia was sentenced Tuesday in
North Vancouver provincial court to three
months in jail for lyiny toa Canadian (Citizenship
‘officer in 1993,

Asheattaia, 10, will remain out on bail until this suitability
for serving the sentence through electronic monitoring in his
hame das been deteratined,

Ashrafinia was an Tranian refigee who concealed the fiet
that hte lad been deported front Canada in 1975, He came back
to Canada in 1989 nd became a Canadian citizen in 1994,

“The w cangdogr should be deprived ofthe benefits of his or
her crime," satel Judge Hib Rodgers during SENtENCING.

“That option is net available to this cours.

Rodgers said the cours cond net take away Ashrafinia’ s cit:
izenship,

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lying to Citizenship officer

The maximum sentence: tor the offence under the
Citizenship Act was 3°51,000 fine and 12. nonehs in jail,

Crown lawyer Jay Straith said a report would be made to the
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. Ashralinia’s citizen-
ship could be revoked and fe could be deported again.

Ashratinia iy no stranger to the Canadian court system, He
wos convicted tn 1996 in B.C. Supreme Court of forging two

Canadian passports, He was sentenced to three months of elee-
tronic monitoring for the crimes,

After Ashratinia was charged with the passport forgeries in’

1994, police’ investigators discovered information that led Ta)

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THESE funeral sorvice-goers wore late and loud on Tuesday at Hollyburn Funeral Home in West Vancouver. The service fora mur: -
dered former Hell's Angels member of the Haney Chapter drew about 200 bikers.

Straith said on “Tuesday that Ashrafinia was making a nike
ery of the daws of Canada,” _

“He is the author of his own misfortune because he chose ta:
lie,” said Straith, -

Ashratinia’s Lawger Henry Viug said if the government had
done its work properly his client could not have become a

Canadian citizen, "

“Pra asking your hosor pow not to punish him for the gov-

ernment’s negligence,” said Viug before the judge smrouneed,

Viug said Ashraliniawas not an undesirable person. The ©
defence lawyer produced 13 letters of support for Ashratinia
written by members of the Iranian community.

Vlug asked for a suspended sentence and possible commu-

‘nity work service for his client.

Vlug said that Ashrafinia was an artist and. skilled magician

who had done volunteer work j in North Vancouver. Viug, said,

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