Title: Further details revealed about Hong Kong `scam'
Teslacoils 2006
Source: Edmonton Journal, November 10, 2006, Final Edition, p.A10
There is evidence someone working inside Canada's consulate
in Hong Kong was selling visas to an immigration consultant through
freemason
back channels, an RCMP officer and former diplomat contend.
The allegations were levelled Wednesday by suspended RCMP corporal
Robert Read and former diplomat Brian McAdam, the immigration
control officer at Canada's consulate in Hong Kong between 1991 and
1993.
Read told reporters of ``an under-the-table arrangement whereby
there was an illicit application system operating alongside the
legitimate process,'' the Toronto Star said Thursday in a report
from Ottawa.
Read said the alleged scam involved a Hong Kong immigration
consultant, and claimed there was evidence in RCMP files the man was
working with a Canadian consulate staffer who had top-level access
to the computer system used to process applications for residence in
Canada.
Read, who identified both the consultant and the Canadian staffer,
contends there was evidence the staffer was taking ``phantom
applications'' from the consultant for a fee and processing visas
without ever entering the applications in the computer.
Read and McAdam have made waves in recent weeks by going public
with allegations that a corrupt immigration scam at Canada's mission
in Hong Kong was covered up by senior officials.
They have alleged that between 1986 and 1992 the computer system at
the Hong Kong consulate was infiltrated and that files were altered
to allow criminals to get into Canada.
A senior Canadian diplomat says new preventive measures are in
place to foil any possible security breaches in processing visas.
Bruce Gillies, of the Hong Kong-China division of the Department of
Foreign Affairs, said there have been three staff audits since the
handover to China and that new controls have been placed on computer
access.
Copyright Edmonton Journal 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: The story so far
Byline: Fabian Dawson; Staff Reporter
Source: The Province (Vancouver), August 29, 1999, Final Edition, p.A3
Last Thursday, in an exclusive investigative report, The
Province shed light on a seven-year probe by the RCMP into the
alleged infiltration of the immigration computer at the Canadian
diplomatic mission in Hong Kong.
The alleged infiltration of the Computer Assisted Immigration
Processing System is said to be the work of some locally engaged
staff with links to triads -- the Chinese Mafia. It was initially
brought to light by the then immigration control officer, Brian
McAdam, who provided a series of RCMP officers with loads of leads.
In 1992, two investigators, one from the department of external
affairs and the other from the RCMP, flew to Hong Kong to look into
the case.
Despite being told of files being deleted, finding fake immigration
stamps and discovering that locally engaged staff had given
themselves unauthorised high-level security clearance to issue
visas, neither pursued the matter, and the case was closed in 1992.
McAdam continued with his reports alleging that 788 files with
sensitive background information on criminals and businessmen had
been removed from the computer and that nearly 2,000 blank visa
forms were missing.
RCMP reactivated the investigation in 1995 and worked with the
Canadian spy agency, which launched Operation Sidewinder to look at
the extent of Chinese espionage in this country. That operation was
abruptly halted.
After a series of RCMP officers were assigned the case and abruptly
transferred, Cpl. Robert Read of the RCMP immigration and passport
section in Ottawa was assigned the file in September 1996.
Finding gaping holes in the earlier investigations and leads not
being followed up, he recommended that a thorough investigation be
done. He was taken off the case.
Suspecting internal collusion to keep the matter hidden, Read filed
an obstruction-of-justice complaint in January 1998, alleging that
his superiors were trying to cover up the issue.
After the first report in The Province on Thursday, the RCMP
confirmed that they are investigating the penetration of the
computer and other improprieties involving staff at the diplomatic
mission.
The next day, The Province tracked down a key suspect in the
infiltration of the computer to North Vancouver. This was the woman
whom the first RCMP investigator in 1992 said he could not find.
Documents allege that investigators found fake Canadian immigration
stamps in her desk. She now works as an immigration consultant.
On Friday, the auditor-general's office in Ottawa said it is also
looking at the case to determine if Canadian tax dollars were being
abused at the diplomatic mission in Hong Kong.
The solicitor-general's office has also received a
five-centimetre-thick dossier on certain clandestine goings-on
involving high-ranking officials at the Canadian mission in Hong
Kong and alleged links between certain politicians and triad
leaders.
The story has been making headlines around the world, especially in
Hong Kong, where the major dailies carried wire versions of the
Province expose.
Copyright The Province (Vancouver) 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: Were our officials bribed in Hong Kong?: Mounties are
investigating a night at the races and little red envelopes stuffed
with dollars
Byline: Fabian Dawson; Staff Reporter
Source: The Province (Vancouver), August 29, 1999, Final Edition, p.A2
It was called a night at the races.
That's when ``Granny Pong'' stood at the entrance of the posh
private room at the Happy Valley race track, dishing out little red
envelopes to employees of the Canadian diplomatic mission in Hong
Kong.
In each packet was $1,000 HK (about $200 Cdn at today's rates),
so-called lucky money for diplomats and other staff at the Canadian
commission to either bet on the horses or take home.
Now some of those who took this money from wealthy Hong Kong
socialites may not be so lucky.
The RCMP confirmed Friday that it is looking at this type of
incident and other alleged improprieties involving staff at the
Canadian commission (now consulate general) in Hong Kong during the
height of the immigration wave from the then British colony.
``We cannot get into the specifics of the investigation, but we are
looking at other improprieties in addition to the CAIPS incident,''
said RCMP Cpl. Marc Richer from Ottawa.
The ``CAIPS incident'' -- the acronym stands for Computer-Assisted
Immigration Processing System -- was detailed in an exclusive
Province report last Thursday.
It involved claims that locally engaged staff were paid to delete
from the CAIPS immigration computer sensitive background information
on criminals and businessmen seeking to migrate to Canada and that
some 2,000 blank visa forms had disappeared from the mission.
Documents obtained by The Province show that police are also
investigating at least one incident involving the little red
envelopes that occurred in 1991.
In addition, suspicions have also been raised against certain staff
who received lavish going-away gifts, including one officer who
received a Rolex watch.
Another officer is said to have been given expensive gold coins as
a gift to his parents, whom he was going to visit.
Suspicion has also been raised about an immigration officer who was
on assignment in Hong Kong but went home with $300,000 Cdn that he
supposedly won at the races.
Brian McAdam, former immigration control officer at the mission,
who alerted Ottawa to the CAIPS infiltration in 1992, said RCMP have
questioned him about the ``little red packet'' incident.
``I expressed trepidation -- about the invitation to the races --
to my immediate boss, but was told the people inviting us were not
asking for visas to go to Canada,'' he recalled last week in Ottawa.
``When my wife and I arrived at the VIP room at the race track,
Granny Pong, the matriarch of this family, thrust little red
envelopes into our hands, as she did for every other couple,'' he
said.
``This greatly disturbed me because I knew this was an old
technique to bribe people,'' said McAdam, an internationally
renowned expert on triads (the Chinese Mafia), whose reports are
used by various law enforcement agencies.
``When we returned home and opened the envelopes, there was $1,000
HK in each of them,'' he said.
McAdam said he took the issue up with his superiors the next day
and was assured that such a thing would not happen again.
``But I was told I could not return the money because it would be
taken as a great offence,'' he said.
McAdam sent the cash to the Save the Children Fund, saying it was
courtesy of Granny Pong, and gave his boss a copy of the letter
accompanying the donation.
One of the series of RCMP investigators looking into the
allegations of improprieties at the diplomatic mission made
inquiries into the incident outlined by McAdam.
Documents show that he was told by a senior official at the
commission that the money was collected back from all those who
received it and returned to Granny Pong.
Cpl. Robert Read of the RCMP's immigration and passport section,
who took over the Hong Kong file in September 1996, confirmed that
he was investigating the red-packet incident when he was removed
from the case.
Read, who found gaping holes in earlier investigations and became
suspicious about the lack of follow-up to leads given to some
investigators, suspects that the RCMP is perpetuating a coverup of
some of the incidents that went on at the diplomatic mission.
He has filed an obstruction-of-justice complaint against some of
his senior officers.
Read refused to divulge what he found but has forwarded his files
to the federal auditor-general's department.
Cash in red packets, according to sources familiar with the custom,
is an old Chinese tradition practised during the Lunar New Year and
other auspicious occasions.
However, it is not unknown for criminals to have adapted the custom
to their own ends.
The unanswered question, according to McAdam's report on this
incident filed to an assistant deputy minister in the department of
external affairs, is: ``Why would multimillionaires constantly
invite all newcomers from the Canadian mission's immigration
section, as well as locally engaged staff, to the horse races and
give them thousands of dollars?''
Copyright The Province (Vancouver) 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: Mountie suspended in consulate probe
Byline: For the Calgary Herald; The Province
Source: Calgary Herald, September 3, 1999, Final Edition, p.A10
A Mountie has been suspended because he told The Province
newspaper about an investigation into the infiltration of
immigration computers at the Canadian diplomatic mission in Hong
Kong.
The suspension comes after the RCMP offered Cpl. Robert Read an
early retirement package, which he refused.
``I am not surprised . . . I know I have done the right thing,''
Read said from his home in Ottawa Thursday night.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Gilles Moreau said Read was suspended with pay
on Wednesday afternoon. He said Read, 54, is being investigated in
connection with the Hong Kong incident and ``how certain information
pertaining to the criminal investigation into the Canadian
consulate-general found its way into the public domain.''
Moreau said a separate investigation into whether Read has
committed any criminal offence had been launched.
Read, a 24-year veteran of the force, was attached to the RCMP
immigration and passport section in Ottawa. Last week, he told The
Province he had filed an obstruction-of-justice complaint against
his superiors, alleging the RCMP were perpetuating a coverup of
penetration of the immigration computer at the commission (now
consulate-general) in Hong Kong.
The alleged infiltration of the computers was discovered by
then-immigration control officer Brian McAdam, an expert on triads,
or Chinese Mafia. McAdam alerted Ottawa, but the investigation was
stopped shortly after it started in 1992 because of a lack of
evidence.
Copyright Calgary Herald 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: Mountie accuses RCMP of a coverup
Source: The Province (Vancouver), August 26, 1999, Final Edition, p.A3
Robert Read, who became the fourth Mountie assigned to
investigate the Hong Kong affair, says he has been "ostracized"
because of his work.
In 1996, his boss, Insp. Jean Dube, assigned him to interview Brian
McAdam, the former immigration control officer at the Canadian
commission in Hong Kong.
"After reviewing the earlier investigations, it became quickly
clear that something was amiss," he told The Province. He declined
to provide details of his report because it remains classified.
Married with two children, Read, 54, joined the RCMP in 1975 after
10 years with Regina city police. After stints in Burnaby and
Quebec, he was transferred to the RCMP war crimes/immigration and
passport section in Ottawa.
Read said a summary of his original report prepared for the RCMP
commissioner was "camouflage." He wrote another report and submitted
it to the top brass.
"I got no response . . . instead I was taken off the case and
assigned a paper-shuffling job . . . I have been ostracized for
doing what I think is in the best interest of Canadians," he said.
Read submitted his findings and allegations to the RCMP public
complaints commission. The commission said it was unable to look at
the case, citing among other things the sensitive nature of the
"ongoing investigations."
Read then sent his files to the federal auditor-general's
department and the office of the solicitor-general. Peter Sorby from
the auditor-general's office is now investigating the case.
Brian McAdam is a recognized authority on triads. He has worked for
the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, the FBI and other
law enforcement agencies.
His report entitled Triad Guide, co-authored with RCMP Insp. Garry
Clement, is considered one of the best on the Chinese underworld.
But the 57-year-old former external-affairs employee could not get
his bosses to use his material. The report is banned from
distribution within external affairs and Immigration Canada for
legal reasons.
"I am not a whistle-blower," says McAdam, who served at the
Canadian commission in Hong Kong for two terms.
"What I tried to do was alert my superiors to the criminal
goings-on during the height of the largest modern immigration wave .
. . we had thousands of people from Hong Kong wanting to leave prior
to the 1997 handover."
Ridiculed, ostracized and called anti-social, McAdam quit the
foreign service a few years ago after a severe bout of depression.
"Some of the RCMP officers who investigated my reports have done a
marvellous job, and there is enough evidence to show that there is a
coverup," he said.
"The word is I am crazy, but my reports speak for themselves,"
McAdam said.
Copyright The Province (Vancouver) 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: RCMP may have `botched' Hong Kong probe
Source: Times Colonist (Victoria), September 9, 1999, Final Edition,
p.A8
TORONTO -- A senior RCMP investigator says the Mounties may
have botched a probe into allegations that officials at Canada's
High Commission in Hong Kong were bribed to approve visas for
Chinese gang members, the Globe and Mail reported Wednesday.
Staff-Sgt. Jim Puchniak, who is now head of federal enforcement for
the RCMP in Ottawa, says the Mounties weren't aggressive enough in
investigating the allegations.
Puchniak, a 30-year veteran, was one of six investigators to look
into the claims made by then immigration officer Brian McAdam in the
last eight years.
``Perhaps we (the RCMP) didn't look at his allegations soon enough
or aggressively enough,'' Puchniak told the Globe.
McAdam, who served in Hong Kong from 1989 to 1993, has alleged
Canadian officials were bribed by gangs so they could obtain visas
allowing them to move in and out of Canada.
He also alleged the 800 files on criminals in the High Commission's
computer system were deleted so gang members could enter the country
and that scores of migrants were smuggled into the Canada.
McAdam, who retired in 1995, took his allegations to Liberal MP
David Kilgour who in turn wrote to Prime Minister Jean Chretien
urging a judicial inquiry.
Francoise Ducros, a spokeswoman for Chretien, said the information
was passed on to the minister of immigration and the prime minister
``felt that appropriate actions would be taken.''
An RCMP media relations officer dismissed claims the Mounties
didn't move quickly enough.
``Up till now we have not found any concrete evidence to support
these allegations,'' Cpl. Gilles Moreau said.
Canadian diplomatic sources told the Globe that McAdam's
allegations are outlandish and cannot be corroborated.
But Puchniak scoffs at the criticism.
``I think a lot of people would like to have Brian McAdam written
off, to be honest with you.
``I think there is enough (there) to warrant looking at it
closer.''
Puchniak was assigned to the case in 1994 but was promoted a year
later and left the investigation.
His comments come days after RCMP Cpl. Robert Read was suspended
after claiming the computer security breach was covered up by the
force.
Copyright Victoria Times Colonist 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: Fraud began 40 years ago at consulate, ex-official says:
Officers charge cover-up after RCMP probe
Byline: Tim Harper
Source: The Toronto Star, September 3, 1999, First Edition
OTTAWA - There are fresh allegations that file-tampering and
fraud at the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong have been rampant
for more than four decades with no effort made to staunch the
tide of criminals flowing into this country.
The man who headed a four-year probe into immigration fraud at
the consulate from 1959-62, said the latest round of allegations
shows ``nothing has changed.
``The situation is identical,'' Kim Abbott, a retired director of
Immigration Canada's inspection services, said yesterday. Abbott
said the criminal flow from Asia, with the co-operation of
Canadian employees of consulates, likely dates back to 1910.
``The system has always worked well for Chinese agents. It's very
complex. But why would they give up a good thing like that?'' he
said.
Abbott, who now lives in the Ottawa Valley, was commenting on
charges from two officials who say the RCMP conducted a slipshod
probe into the most recent round of allegations, stemming from
the 1986-92 period.
RCMP Corporal Robert Read and Brian McAdam, the immigration
control officer at the consulate from 1991-93, both say a probe
into widespread file-tampering was superficial and a report filed
on it purposely vague.
The RCMP informed Read last night that he had been suspended
pending an investigation into the release of internal documents.
The two men say nearly 800 computer files of prospective
immigrants were tampered with to conceal criminal backgrounds and
that some 2,000 blank visa forms went missing during the same
period.
Specifically, they say locally hired staff at the Hong Kong
mission were paid large sums of money to delete the background
files of persons from the computer system to expunge any
reference to their links with organized crime and allow them to
obtain visas to travel to Canada.
The RCMP said it is continuing to investigate.
Copyright Toronto Star 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: Mountie vows to keep fighting over visa frauds: Won't `go away'
despite suspension for talking to press
Byline: Tim Harper
Source: The Toronto Star, September 4, 1999, First Edition
OTTAWA - The Mountie suspended for going public with his
allegations about immigration fraud in Hong Kong says he will not
slink away but will insist on a formal hearing into his case.
``I'm not going to accept a slap on the wrist, hang my head and
go away,'' Corporal Robert Read said yesterday, after the RCMP
suspended him for ``disgraceful conduct.''
He will be paid, pending the results of an inquiry into how
confidential documents dealing with the RCMP probe ended up with
the media.
The documents were also shared with Brian McAdam, the immigration
control officer at the Canadian consulate from 1991 to 1993.
McAdam probed file-tampering and computer fraud during that
period and he and Read contend nearly 800 computer files of
prospective immigrants were fiddled with to conceal criminal
backgrounds.
They also alleged some 2,000 blank visa forms went missing during
the same period.
The RCMP says a probe into the charges continues but an internal
inquiry is also under way to find out how documents became
public.
Read says RCMP investigators have been slipshod, which has
allowed those people with links to Hong Kong organized crime to
enter this country.
Instead of seeking the truth, the RCMP became more preoccupied
with trying to discredit him, Read said. ``I have received notice that
I have been suspended for divulging confidential information to the
press and to Brian McAdam,'' Read
said yesterday.
``Before going to the press, I took my complaint of
criminal RCMP
conduct to the hierarchy of the RCMP.
``I took it to CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), I
took it to the RCMP Public Complaints Commission and finally I
took it to the auditor-general.
``I was prepared to wait many more months for an investigation
into my complaint. But I was forced to go public when I felt I
was being discredited rather than my complaint being
investigated.''
Other sources have backed Read, indicating irregularities in the
consulate's visa section have been a problem dating back at least
40 years.
Immigration officials, however, contend they have been quietly
doing their job, and some 1,000 persons linked to organized crime
have either been blocked from entering Canada or deported over
the past five years.
Copyright Toronto Star 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: MPs seek probe of visa cover-up
Byline: Fabian Dawson; Staff Reporter
Source: The Province (Vancouver), December 2, 1999, Final Edition,
p.A24
Reform MPs are demanding the government appoint a special
prosecutor to investigate allegations that the RCMP is covering up
aspects of a visa scam at the Canadian diplomatic mission in Hong
Kong.
The allegations are being made by RCMP Cpl. Robert Read who has
been suspended for talking to The Province about his Hong Kong
investigation.
Read, a 24-year-veteran police officer is currently being
investigated by the RCMP in connection with the Hong Kong incident
and ``how certain information pertaining to the criminal
investigation into the Canadian consulate-general found its way into
the public domain.''
In Parliament yesterday, Reform MPs from B.C. Jim Abbot and John
Reynolds urged Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay to appoint an
independent prosecutor to look at the case as some of the people who
Read has accused are investigating him.
``Read has been told he is being suspended for repeating his
allegations in The Province this summer, yet the RCMP still has not
investigated the cover-up,'' Abbot said in the House of Commons.
MacAulay said it is up to the RCMP to decide what measures are to
be taken.
He then suggested that the issue be referred to the RCMP Public
Complaints Commission, unaware that Read had already taken it to
that body and was told that his case was beyond their purview.
``Obviously the solicitor-general does not know what he is talking
about,'' said Abbot.
Reynolds said the RCMP should not be investigating their own,
especially because of the highly sensitive nature of the case and
allegations of wrongdoing by senior RCMP members.
``It's like having the fox guard the chicken coop,'' he said.
Read, contacted at his Ottawa home yesterday, said the only way his
case can get an open and fair hearing is if his complaints are
addressed by an independent commission.
``I have tried three separate government bodies including the
public complaints commission, the auditor-general and CSIS . . . I
don't know where else to go for an independent hearing,'' he said.
``Maybe I should try the federal dog-catcher,'' said Read.
Read, 54, was attached to the RCMP immigration and passport section
in Ottawa. In August he told The Province he had filed an
obstruction-of-justice complaint against his superiors, alleging
that the RCMP were perpetuating a coverup of the penetration of the
immigration computer at the Canadian commission (now
consulate-general) in Hong Kong.
The alleged computer infiltration was initially discovered by
then-immigration control officer Brian McAdam, an internationally
renowned expert on triads, or the Chinese Mafia.
McAdam alerted Ottawa and an investigation was initiated by the
department of external affairs and the RCMP.
The core allegations were that 788 files containing sensitive
background information on businessmen and criminals had been deleted
from the Computer Assisted Immigration Processing System (CAIPS).
The tampering is said to be the work of locally hired staff, linked
to triads, who had given themselves high security clearance.
Another allegation involved the disappearance of about 2,000 blank
visa forms.
In addition, certain immigration staff at the diplomatic mission
were suspected of accepting ``bribes.''
The initial investigation was stopped shortly after it started in
1992 because of a lack of evidence.
Copyright The Province (Vancouver) 1999 All Rights Reserved.
Title: 'Whitewash': An RCMP probe into alleged improprieties at the
Canadian mission in Hong Kong fails to answer key questions, critics
say
Byline: Fabian Dawson; Staff Reporter
Source: The Province (Vancouver), December 23, 1999, Final Edition,
p.A6
An influential Chinese family pumped Canadian foreign affairs
staff in Hong Kong with cash to gamble on the race track, an RCMP
probe has shown.
The money, between $150 and $1,000 in each packet, was handed out
by the family's matriarch identified as "Granny Pong" many times at
the Hong Kong race track between 1988 and 1996.
The RCMP, however, are expected to say that they cannot prove that
the family or their connections in Hong Kong got anything in return
for the cash.
The finding is contained in a report on allegations of corruption
at the Canadian diplomatic mission in Hong Kong, scheduled for
release by the RCMP today in Ottawa.
Sources told The Province that RCMP officers interviewed about 30
current and former staff at the mission discovering that "some had
returned the money, others had given it to charity while some
gambled it all away."
In addition, the RCMP probe also acknowledged that certain senior
members of the mission met with high-ranking suspected criminals and
triad members in public places.
But again, they are unable to show any criminal wrongdoing, despite
the relationships.
RCMP are expected to recommend both issues be dealt with in a code
of conduct for staff at Canadian diplomatic missions overseas.
The probe into the affairs in Hong Kong was triggered by former
Canadian Immigration control officer Brian McAdam, an
internationally renowned expert on the Chinese Mafia.
His allegations were investigated by a series of RCMP officers
beginning in 1992.
Last August, one of the RCMP officers, Cpl. Robert Read, found
substantive new information on the case.
He was suspended from the force after alleging that the RCMP were
trying to cover up the Hong Kong probe.
Other findings by the RCMP to be released today include:
- They have no evidence to show that 788 files containing sensitive
background information on businessmen and criminals had been deleted
from the Computer Assisted Immigration Processing System (CAIPS) in
Hong Kong.
In addition, there is also no evidence to show some 2,000 blank
visa forms cannot be accounted for, as alleged.
Investigators say the original files disintegrated after being
transferred from one computer system to another.
The investigators adopted the position despite direct evidence from
McAdam about the missing files. He says the files were not backed up
with microfilmed copies as required.
Read also found unauthorized access to the immigration computers.
- A former employee of the Canadian diplomatic mission, whom The
Province tracked down to North Vancouver, has denied she knows
anything about fake immigration stamps found in her desk in Hong
Kong.
Initially the RCMP said they could not find the woman and that she
was in Taiwan.
RCMP also have no evidence to show that the fake stamps were used
for immigration purposes. It was left to answer why a Panama
immigration stamp and two Hong Kong-made Government of Canada stamps
were in the mission.
- They do not have direct evidence to link the principals of one of
Asia's largest immigration consultants, which has brought thousands
of people to Canada, to fake documents and receipts given to them.
At least three victims of the consultants have talked to RCMP and
given them fake receipts.
McAdam said the RCMP has not addressed his concerns about what went
on at the Hong Kong mission during the height of the pre-handover
years.
"Their investigation has been narrow and the RCMP has refused to
look at all the issues," said McAdam.
"If they think this is going to assure the Canadian public about
our immigration system, they had better think again," he said.
Read, when told of the RCMP findings would only say:
"The coverup continues."
THE STORY SO FAR
The story broke last August when The Province reported on a
seven-year RCMP probe into the alleged infiltration of the
immigration computer at the Canadian diplomatic mission in Hong
Kong.
It was said to be the work of local staff with links to the Chinese
Mafia.
It was brought to light by then-immigration control officer Brian
McAdam, who gave several leads to the RCMP.
Among the allegations: deleted files, bogus immigration stamps and
improper high-level security visas.
The RCMP found no wrong-doing but McAdam persisted. He said 788
files with sensitive background information on criminals and and
businessmen had been removed from the computer and that nearly 2,000
blank visa forms were missing.
RCMP reactivated the investigation in 1995 and worked with CSIS,
which launched Operation Sidewinder to look at the extent of Chinese
espionage in this country. That operation was abruptly halted.
Cpl. Robert Read of the RCMP immigration and passport section in
Ottawa was assigned the file in September 1996.
After urging a thorough probe, Read was taken off the case.
Read filed an obstruction-of-justice complaint in January 1998,
charging his superiors with a coverup.
Read was then suspended by the RCMP for talking to The Province. He
is still under investigation.
The Province has also found that one of Asia's largest immigration
consultants were involved in a racket to help people migrate to
Canada using fake papers.
The consultants seemed to have a contact at Canada's mission in
Hong Kong.
Teslacoils 2006
Flaming Poultice
news:1164950780....@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,
Teslacoils 2006 <englando...@yahoo.co.uk> spittled
and blathered:
> Title: Further details revealed about Hong Kong `scam'
Buddy, if you can't even copy-and-paste a goddamn chunk
of text without double-posting it and fucking up the line
breaks, you don't stand a snowball's chance in Hitler's
underpants against those big, nasty freemasons.
I hope you get hit by a truck on Christmas eve and
scatter your Wal*Mart purchases all over the street.
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