{"id":444822,"date":"2025-12-13T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444822\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T16:57:16","slug":"vancouver-man-fights-cash-seizure-on-his-way-to-casino-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444822\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver man fights cash seizure on his way to casino &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A Vancouver man says a trip to the casino turned into a nightmare when his cash was seized before he even got there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chiu On Tam says on Nov. 29 that he was waiting for a friend before heading to Parq Casino to play baccarat.<\/p>\n<p>He says a vehicle pulled over and the occupants got out, demanding his identification.<\/p>\n<p>Tam says they searched his pockets and confiscated $12,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>He says he is a Canadian citizen with no connections to gangs or money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking through an interpreter, Tam says he was never told why he was being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUm, he doesn\u2019t understand English well, but he thinks they have not explained, and after taking the money, they returned his empty wallet, cell phone and identity card,\u201d Tam told Global News through the interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>RCMP\u2019s Combined Special Enforcement Unit confirmed to Global News that officers from its department stopped Tam and they did not deny that they seized the money.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11573855\/environment-canada-winter-outlook\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765645035_774_Canada-winter-forecast-2025-26.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEnvironment Canada releases winter outlook. Time to get the snow pants out?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11575692\/ex-tory-mps-michael-ma-departure-poilievre-flat-footed\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/94fee3cdb32de981a26056755fac817c15a3854168a39233b981ed9a541f9cda.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEx-Tory MP\u2019s departure caught Poilievre flat-footed on eve of holiday break\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The unit also said the interaction involving Tam fell within the scope of their mandate.<\/p>\n<p>However, Vancouver lawyer Ryan Hira said police cannot just stop someone and arbitrarily take their money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are investigating somebody for a proposed criminal offence, or a suspected criminal offence, they are entitled to seize (something) of that offence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tam insisted he has never been part of a gang and is just a retired man who enjoys gambling.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Vancouver man says a trip to the casino turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,204924,4219,204925,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-444822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-cfseu","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-money-seized","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115713320496915641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}