Immigration consultant brought hundreds into Canada illegally without any license

Many, many hundreds’ of immigrants obtained Canadian citizenship or permanent residence with the help of an unlicensed immigration consultant in Richmond who made millions changing passports.

Xun “Sunny” Wang appeared at a sentencing hearing in provincial court in Vancouver after pleading guilty to eight charges in connection with his immigration businesses.

Federal Crown counsel Bruce Harper said “definitely many, many hundreds” and possibly “well over 1,000” of Wang’s clients received Canadian citizenship or permanent resident status through Wang’s deceitful businesses.

“There are surely a great number of individuals whose statuses in Canada, whether permanent residence or citizenship, is now in question,” Harper said.

Wang’s businesses served more than 1,000 clients during 2006 to 2013, which had charging its clients over $10 million.

Along with six counts under the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Wang has pleaded guilty to two counts under the Income Tax Act, including failing to report $2,722,305 of taxable income from 2007 to 2012.

And, despite the millions earned by his companies, Wang also claimed several thousand dollars of low-income tax benefits between 2008 and 2013, which Harper compared to robbing a bank, and then stealing the charitable donation can on the way out.

“The nature of this fraud is beyond any of the precedents,” said Harper. “You aren’t going to find another case of this scale.” Harper said, “Wang’s clients are foreign nationals who are willing to pay for fraud to get into Canada.

Crown is seeking a sentence of seven and a half years. Wang’s defence counsel, Ritchie Clark, said an appropriate sentence due to his voluntarily pleading guilty statement must have been maximum for two and a half years Judge Harris reserved decision on Wang’s sentence until next month.

 

 

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