The B.C. government wants to forfeit three properties in the province’s Lower Mainland, alleging its owners were part of an operation to produce fentanyl in clandestine laboratories, according to court documents.
The director of the province’s civil forfeiture office filed a notice of civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court on Aug. 13, seeking to seize three properties in Langley, B.C., three vehicles, and $1,860 in cash linked to a suspected fentanyl production operation that involved imported specialized equipment using the name of a fake company.
B.C.’s civil forfeiture law allows the government to initiate legal proceedings against property it believes to be either the proceeds of unlawful activity or used to facilitate such activity. It is one of the tools the province has recently strengthened to combat money laundering and other forms of criminal activity….