Postmedia News July 31, 2013

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Burnaby+wanted+money+laundering+scheme+drug+gang+have+fled/8732756/story.html

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a Burnaby man facing money laundering charges after a cross-border investigation into a Vietnamese organized crime group trafficking cocaine and ecstasy across North America.

Cong Dinh, 26, is believed to have fled B.C. for Vietnam after his Goring Street home was raided by the RCMP in connection with the joint U.S.-Canada investigation.

RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said in a release that Dinh has been charged with five counts of laundering the proceeds of crime and one count of possession of the proceeds of crime.

He said the RCMP Federal Serious Organized Crime (FSOC) partnered with the California Division of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the international money laundering investigation in which millions of dollars of drug money was involved.

California resident Minh Nguyen, also 26, pleaded guilty in California to money laundering and drug trafficking in connection with the same investigation. He is awaiting sentencing.

The Mounties said the case highlighted cross-border cooperation and disrupted the flow of drug profits.

“The RCMP’s Federal Serious Organized Crime Section will continue to work with our local, national and international partners targeting Canada’s highest level organized crime groups,” RCMP Chief Superintendent Kevin deBruyckere said.

“This is an excellent demonstration of the RCMP collaborating with major international partners to achieve a significant dismantling and disruption of organized crime in Canada.”

Anyone with information about Dinh’s whereabouts is asked to contact police or Crimestoppers.