Oct 7/2024 Lindsay Buziak – a beautiful young woman who fell for the wrong guy.
Barry Liu, JZ, Unknown, Jefferson Delalcazar, Aaron Perez, Ziggy Matheson
For sixteen years now, we’ve listened to the Saanich Police tell us that Lindsay was murdered at the hands of persons involved in the Calgary Drug Bust, someone who had connections to the Mexican cartel. Yet here we are today, with no arrests, no DNA results, no explanations, just the same old BS we’ve been hearing for years. Do the Saanich Police even have suspects? Even though the circumstantial evidence has always pointed to certain individuals who live in the Victoria area and are involved in money-laundering, mortgage fraud, & drugs the cops have refused to arrest the persons who they know conspired to murder Lindsay.
It makes one wonder just who the cops are protecting, who they are covering for, and WHY. Saanich Police claim they are waiting for DNA results. What the heck does that mean? And when might that be? Does it mean they only want the people who went into the DeSousa home that night, the actual killer/killers? What about the conspirators? Why have they not arrested these known conspirators? So, they identify the killer/s through DNA, what next? What if the killer’s won’t rat out the conspirators? Does that mean the conspirators walk free? The conspirators have been living a very comfortable lifestyle since Lindsay’s murder “knowing full well” that they outsmarted law enforcement. They feel so safe that they have continued on with their criminal lifestyle with no worry that there will be a knock on their door anytime soon. It’s just insane!
Below is an email recently sent to me by a reader. Their words really hit home with me, and I thought what this person had to say was definitely worth sharing.
“It is absurd to even consider that Lindsay’s murder was a cartel hit, particularly a Sinola cartel hit.
Generally speaking, cartels do not put hits out on civilians. It’s bad for business. This is just not how Mexican cartels send a message, especially the Sinola cartel. It doesn’t even make sense that they were trying to “send a message.” Photos of the body were never leaked. It’s not a message if only Jason and his friend are privy to it. Not to mention, victims of cartels are tortured.
“Drug cartel hits are much more gruesome and definitely more public. Dismembered bodies are posed in demeaning positions on the street, severed heads are placed on stakes, dead bodies are hung from bridges in major cities. They don’t stab a civilian forty times in an upscale house in an upscale neighborhood. Very rarely does a Sinola cartel hit, involve a machete, or ever even take place outside of Mexico… that’s another point, the Sinola cartel use machetes, not knives. This is definitely not a cartel hit, not a sanctioned one anyway. There is nothing Lindsay could have been in a position to see for a high- ranking cartel member to sanction her murder.
And if one still thinks her visit to the particular town where the drug bust happened has anything to do with her murder, it just doesn’t make sense, because everybody involved in the drug operation would have never made it to court because they all would have been murdered before that. This is based on simply the way the hierarchy is constructed in cartels. This explanation is not to say that civilian bystanders are not killed as a result of cartels because they are, but civilians are just never the intended target. And cartels don’t go out of their way to put suspicion on other people or plan out some intricate scene to throw off the police. they don’t have to. They are more than willing to take credit for the thousands of people they have murdered and put the gruesomeness on display for everyone to see, literally and also across social media platforms.
A crime of passion? Maybe, but probably not. The number of times she was stabbed would definitely suggests this, but the amount of planning suggests anything but a crime of passion. If it were a crime of passion, her face would have also been stabbed several times, not just her chest. The planner was meticulous, with every single detail, and definitely knew the process of collecting forensic evidence. The planner also set up a scene where any forensic evidence collected could or could not even be related to the crime based on all of the numerous variables.”
The planner was smart, unemotional, detached, and has a grasp of crime scene analysis that a regular member of society does not have. The actual murderer is the complete opposite and definitely not a professional. This person became frenzied and lost control. Stabbing someone forty times is pure rage. this person would have had to also had cuts on his or her hands and arms based on the fact that blood makes a knife slippery, and it would be impossible to not sustain even a minor cut to your hand if you’re stabbing someone over and over again and in a frenzy.
I believe there was a 3rd person hiding in that house, waiting for the victim. An inexperienced person, who attacked Lindsay from behind, and became so enraged that once they started stabbing her, they could not stop. I believe the person hiding upstairs could have been a woman. In my opinion, a lot of people have tried to misdirect this case and sensationalize it with people associated to a cartel, a crazed motorcycle club, and other absurd theories. It is important to note who are the ones doing that. I believe this awful murder has something to do the real estate industry and absolutely nothing to do with a cartel, a motorcycle club, etc etc etc. It is also important to note that laundering money through real estate is a common practice among criminals.
DNA BLOOD ANALYSIS The killer’s blood has to be in that house, and there is a huge possibility that it is just mixed in with the victim’s blood which makes analysis much more difficult, but not impossible, especially with the new technology today.” END
In 2007, 2008 mortgage fraud and money laundering was pervasive on the Island.
In fact, it still is. Criminal organizations/drug dealers are using sleaze realtors, sleaze mortgage brokers, sleaze lawyers, to help launder their dirty money, guys who dared to call themselves professionals, but in reality, were anything but. Just look at Jason Zailo and his close connection to drug traffickers, Ziggy Matheson, Barry Liu & Chris Schwartz to name a few. Then there was Jason’s mother Shirley, a manager at Re/Max Westshore who it turns out was Ziggy’s landlord. How does a landlord not suspect foul play when her tenant has no legitimate income. Poor Lindsay had no idea she had entered the door to hell when she met Jason Zailo.
Let’s not forget James L James, a mortgage broker who went to work in Jason Zailo’s office a few years ago after Langford’s Tap House Bar shut down. James was the sleazy co-owner in Langford’s infamous Tap House. At that time, the Tap House was referred to as a microcosm of nearly all social ill facing B.C. Regular visitors to the Tap House were gang members, drug traffickers, then the realtors and mortgage brokers who wanted to play with the big boys and be part of Victoria’s criminal network. Oh wait, James L James is now in a relationship with Cassandra Morgan/Cassie Sahota. Cassie and her husband Jarrod Nicol were involved in trafficking cocaine years ago and Jarrod did 5 years in prison.
Let’s not forget James’ father Craig James, a sleaze corrupt politician. Read James mortgage broker bio, he comes off as a saint who supports organizations and gives to the needy. BS James, you are such a liar, and you sound just like Greg Martel.
Craig James, the former clerk of British Columbia’s legislature, was given a conditional sentence in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday that will see him serve three months of house arrest at his home in Victoria.Former B.C. Legislature clerk found guilty of breach of trust, fraud | CBC News
October 10/2024 NEWS
TD Bank to pay $3 billion, face asset cap to resolve US money-laundering probe | Reuters
Then we had Jason’s good friend & former co-worker Greg Martel, another down & dirty sleazy mortgage broker, fraudster, who ended up operating a Ponzi scheme, stealing from everyone he could – for a total of 233million. Years ago, realtors and mortgage broker cracked the vault, finding all the government loopholes which gave them an open door to cheat the government, cheat the system, but most of all destroy lives of innocent people just trying to get ahead in life. When the government seals one loophole, the brokers find a new one. The B.C. Securities Commission, and other government agencies who are supposed to be monitoring these individuals is lax and has been for years.
B.C.’s economy is partly supported by the proceeds of crime & THE B.C. GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE TO ALL OF IT.
A change in our BC government & federal government might be needed to correct the state we are in with all the illegal activities going on…money laundering, fraud, murders, etc. because basically nothing will change if something drastic doesn’t happen.
Realtors & brokers helped buyers with illicit funds for down payments
They manipulated property values and obtained loans against the over-inflated valued real estate, and let’s not forget the straw buyers! In the end, the only people getting hurt are the good people who simply wanted to get into the housing market but fell prey to these vultures. The seller/buyer chose to take the advice of a sleazy broker who had no morals or ethics, and within a few years many of those buyers lost everything because they couldn’t afford to hang on to their investment. These brokers don’t give a rat’s ass about the client, they only cared about helping the drug dealers launder their money. Why, because there was big money in doing so.
Remember the now notorious mortgage broker Greg Martel. He was reported to the financial crimes division of the Saanich Police in 2015, but no action was ever taken. About that same time, Martel’s alleged fraudulent transactions were reported to the BC Securities Commission, and once again, nothing happened. Now, Greg is on the run after leaving hundreds of investors financially broke. Many of them will never recover, perhaps resulting in divorces, suicides, addictions etc. The government has always been part of the problem – never part of the solution. The opaque laws of government have allowed the criminal organizations to take over this province, while the government sits back and does nothing. With drug trafficking comes corruption, money laundering, murder, and the destruction of families. B.C.’s economy is partly supported by the proceeds of crime.
The realtors & mortgage brokers that insist on helping these drug dealers launder their money are a major part of the problem. Until the government tightens the restrictions on this rotten bunch nothing will ever change. Many of these brokers have families of their own, children. Do they not stop to think that they hold some responsibility for the drug epidemic in this province. Some of these realtors, and they know who they are, have drug dealers in their own families. Just look up Bear Mountain Way because many of them live up there, living off the proceeds of crime. I’ve heard it said by a few of them, “well if I don’t do it, someone else will.” Yup, for them it’s all about making money, even when they know they are committing fraud.
Who remembers the heroin dealer Pei Tien Liu (aka Barry Liu).
In 1999, Barry Liu was charged with conspiracy to traffic in heroin, one of Canada’s biggest heroin conspiracy busts. Multi kilo supplier. The RCMP had been trying to get Barry Liu off the streets for years, unfortunately he was acquitted of the 1999 charges after a judge threw out wiretap evidence ruling it all inadmissible. Cops had an informant who had maneuvered himself into the backrooms of Barry Liu’s life, but that informant was found to be less than credible which damaged some of the case against Liu.
The higher echelons of the illicit drug trade were the focus of the investigation. The investigating officers had a mandate from their superiors to extend the investigation to international connections if the evidence led them there. They were not interested in street-level dealers. It was said Liu was an associate of a Vancouver criminal network with possible ties to the Big Circle Boys.
Barry Liu’s acquittal never stopped him from doing what he did best. Importing heroin into this country and trafficking in both cocaine and heroin. In 2007 Liu lived at 2381 Highland Road, worked as a grocery clerk and was part owner in the auto detailing business Auto FX Accessories. Allegedly, he owned three homes. In 2007 Liu was involved in another major drug bust, and busted along with him, just to name a few were, Brandon Shusterman, Michelle Lum, Arlen Orr etc. Let’s not forget that Barry was also a friend of Jason Zailo’s, the Delalcazar’s, Aaron Perez, Ziggy Matheson, and just about every other drug dealer in town. No doubt the major supplier to the street level guys.
What I would like to know is why we have realtors and mortgage brokers who still associate with Barry Liu today. Mortgage broker Tom Fisher has Barry Liu on his facebook friend’s list, and Barry often likes the posts that Fisher makes. Why does a supposedly honest mortgage broker need to have a trail of drug traffickers on his friend’s list? Just makes me shake my head and say, “what the hell is going on”. Clearly, not a mortgage broker I will be using anytime soon.
Says mortgage broker Tom Fisher to Barry Liu “Wow bro your kids are so big now. Your boy looks like a mini you lol”
Yes, Barry Liu has two kids of his own now, yet he sure didn’t give a rat’s ass about other people’s kids. The children who are overdosing on the streets of Victoria and all across this province because of criminals like Barry Liu. Is Barry still importing heroin and cocaine into this country? Just what does this guy do for a living today? It is a well-known fact that guys like him never change their ways. He is likely still living off the proceeds of crime and lucky enough not to be caught.
In fairness, Fisher isn’t the only mortgage broker who has every drug dealer in town on his friend’s list. When you are looking to hire a realtor or mortgage broker on the island, thoroughly check out their Facebook friend’s list. Because if they are friends with known drug dealers it is a clear indication that they are, or had at one time, done business with them. This cold-hearted ruthless group of realtors & brokers would not be nearly as successful as they are today, had they not been money laundering for drug dealers. If fact, some of them probably wouldn’t even be in the business today had they not been willing to deal with the criminal element. If I made a list of every realtor and mortgage broker who associates with drug dealers it would be a very long list. And let’s face it, we all know who they are!
Barry Liu & drug dealers just like him cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
The accused heroin dealer and Mr. Young became so tight, Mr. Liu asked him to serve as a sort-of legal liaison. Mr. Young had full access to Mr. Liu’s legal file, and on at least one occasion, took it home from Mr. Bulmer’s office so he could read it and explain some things to his Asian friend.
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It took a six-month legal battle to tell just this part of the story – @crimegarden on Tumblr
2011 BCSC 1266 (CanLII) | R. v. Liu | CanLII
BC INTEGRITY – AT THE TAP HOUSE
One of the Tap House’s co-owners was James L. James, a stepson to the former clerk of the B.C. legislature, Craig James.
2011
After weeks of work on a file, a few things are bound to stick with you, like this comment: “Ryan Kam’s head was not chopped off. He was hit on the head numerous times with a hatchet to kill him.” Amazingly, the research that led to that assertion started from some sponsored advertising content for Mother’s Day, of all things, in a May 2012 issue of the Goldstream Gazette, by the now defunct West Coast Tap House.
Over the years, the Tap House had served as a polling station in the 2011 federal election, hosted business speed-networking events and community fundraisers. It also had another side not always seen by the general public and some interesting pedigree. On some nights it was a microcosm of nearly every social ill facing B.C. today: gangs, drugs, prostitution and connections to purported money launderers.
It’s tough to do justice to an establishment that closed down five years ago, so how about a virtual tour of sorts, pointing out some of the patrons instead?
See that young man, Dillon Brown, sitting at the bar? He doesn’t know it, but he’s going to be murdered in a few years, allegedly by Richard Ernest Alexander, president of the Devil’s Army Motorcycle Club in Campbell River, a Hells Angels puppet club. Those three on the patio, to the left in the corner, well, two – Ali Ziaee and Zachary “Ziggy” Matheson – will shortly be busted for trafficking in cocaine and crystal meth. The police seized an estimated $542,000 in drugs. Following a guilty plea, the sentencing gods smiled on Ziaee, who received 30 months. Ziggy went to trial, was found guilty and sentenced to five years.
Ziaee’s father was reportedly convicted of money laundering in the United States some years before. Told the son sells cars now. The big group that just came in, the staff put a couple of tables together for them – “50-seats exactly” – bet they’re going to be talking about last night’s Dateline episode on NBC, the one about Lindsay Buziak’s murder in 2008. A few in that group are persons of interest in the Buziak murder. Probably never made the international media before in their lives.
One of Lindsay’s co-workers at Re/Max Camosun – also a person of interest in the case – just walked in. Looks like she’ll be joining her reputed boyfriend back then, Ovidio Edgar Acevedo. He’s a mid-level drug dealer, bit of a hanger-on, though. Wasn’t like that every night at the Tap House, some nights it seemed as though one crowd knew when to stay at home.
Here’s how the Times Colonist reported it: “It’s 10: 33 p.m. Saturday night of the Canada Day long weekend in downtown Victoria,
and eight cops from the Integrated Gang Task Force and two Victoria police officers march single file into Monty’s Showroom Pub, wearing bulletproof vests and packing sidearms. “The next stop is another strip club, the Fox in the Red Lion hotel, around 11 p.m. The convoy of unmarked vehicles heads out to Langford, stopping at the West Coast Tap House, which is surprisingly dead for a Saturday night.”
Police have a term for what may have contributed to that “surprisingly dead” feel: ‘sixed.’ When patrons are tipped-off in advance, “it gives them the opportunity to run out the back or drop their guns and weapons and drugs on the floor,” (Sgt. Keiron) McConnell told the Times Colonist. The task force suspect they got “sixed” at Monty’s, “meaning one of the bouncers saw the police gathering outside and ducked in the bar to warn patrons.
Then there’s Buziak’s former co-worker from Re/Max, the one involved with the mid-level drug dealer. She quit Re/Max the day after the murder and has been described as a less than cooperative person-of-interest ever since. She had connections with the former government and went on to take a job in the finance ministry, as a corporate compliance clerk in the registration and certification division after the murder. The division’s responsibilities include lotteries and gaming integrity.
Later she became a program assistant in the ministry’s corporate information and records management office which has responsibility for the government’s access to information operations, privacy and government records service. She no longer seems to work for the government and was unable to be located for comment. Her government email address and telephone numbers are no longer in service.
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Intel just confirmed, Canadian real estate is a haven for money laundering and fraud.
Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC), a national intelligence agency, quietly produced an anti-money laundering report in 2020. The report focuses on the scope and extent of money laundering in Canada. The agency found real estate was used extensively as a tool for criminal activity. Organized crime is engaged in everything from laundering, to helping regular families forge mortgage documents. All of this creates extra demand for housing, helping to push home prices higher — and rents as well.
Canadian real estate is often exploited for money laundering due to opaque laws. According to the report, the proceeds of crime are used to buy the property through various schemes. Using illicit funds for down payments or mortgage payments are two straightforward methods. However, CISC warns more sophisticated methods are also being used. Those include “manipulating property values and obtaining loans against the overvalued real estate that are paid using proceeds of crime.”
Less obvious methods are also seeing a rise in use. Examples include using illicit funds for renovations or to pay “rent” to a known party. Since many renovations can be paid with cash and a home could be sold for recovery, it’s a cheap way to launder a lot of cash. Paying rent is one of the more interesting ones they don’t elaborate on, but we will on another day.
The gist is, one party rents a property out to a known party that pays inflated rent. It’s a huge problem, especially when the launderer is sophisticated enough to create a false paper trail. This can involve taking out ads in legitimate rental places, so they can “prove” how they obtained a tenant.
Money laundering involves moving as much money as possible, so obviously they inflate the rent value. Regular landlords and tenants, unaware, can begin to use these numbers as comps. This can inflate rents very rapidly. It’s a similar concept we previously covered on how a little money laundering can inflate home prices.
Corrupt and Unwitting Professionals Help Launder Through Real Estate
How is this being done in a “regulated” industry? With a little expert help from regulated professionals, explains CISC. “Depending on the sophistication of the transaction, criminals may engage the assistance of corrupt or unwittingly used professionals, such as appraisers, real estate agents, accountants, lawyers, or notaries, to complete their transaction,” explains CISC. “The specialized knowledge and skills of these service providers are used to obscure the source of funds and the beneficial ownership of the property.”
First off, it’s important to note that organized crime isn’t the same as a “gang.” In Canada, the definition is a group of three or more people that commission crimes with direct or indirect material benefits. They’re often transnational groups with hierarchical management, like corporations. These aren’t your typical street thugs, but street thugs might be employees.
CISC found 8 major organized crime groups engaged in real estate laundering. Most are in BC and Alberta, and “are reported to be involved in mortgage fraud.”
The agency warns, “several of these groups have expertise in the real estate market or collude with professionals in the industry to accomplish their fraudulent activities. Given the propensity for organized crime to launder money through Canadian real estate, real estate frauds will continue to occur, as tactics such as overvaluation of property and property-flipping help to facilitate money laundering.”
Ontario is notably absent from that mention, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an issue there. CISC has identified 176 organized crime groups, 50% with international money laundering links. The province is home to the largest share of these groups. Together, Ontario, BC, and Quebec represent 76% of money laundering organizations.
Not calling out the province isn’t a dismissal of Ontario as a place for real estate money laundering. It means they don’t have a lead on real estate laundering operations at the organized level. This likely has more to do with the province’s opaque system and a lack of political will to curb the issue. The 2020 report also warns as home prices rise in other places, activity will spread. Uh… crap.
Fraud For Profit (and Fun!) With Canadian Real Estate
Real estate fraud breaks down into two major categories — profit or shelter. Fraud for profit includes illegal property flipping, overvaluation, and mortgage or title fraud. It’s hard to identify the extent due to concealment methods. This includes straw buyers or unregulated lenders that don’t provide any tracking details.
Fraud for profit is even harder with self-regulating players in the industry. A network of professionals (some willing, some unwittingly) helps conceal the activity. CISC notes between 2013 and 2017, about 2.5 million real estate transactions occurred. Those transactions only resulted in 200 suspicious transaction reports during that period.
Data from FINTRAC, Canada’s financial intel agency, shows how oddly small this is. They received 200,000 suspicious transaction reports in 2017. That means over four years, only 0.1% of the transactions in a typical year were real estate related? FYI, suspicious transactions hit 468,000 reports for 2020-2021, doubling over five years.
Organized Crime May Have Helped You Lie on That Mortgage Application
Fraud for shelter is much more common, and you might even know people engaged in it. Fraud for shelter schemes often involves falsifying documents to inflate a mortgage. As more people FOMO into home buying before they’re ready, this fraud segment is soaring higher.
One such scheme is the “Brampton Loan,” anti-money laundering slang for falsifying income. A typical arrangement involves mortgage brokers charging a 1% fee for false documents. The documents “prove” the borrower has higher income than reported to the government. Covering the actual payments is a little trickier. Those funds can come from illicit activity, tax evasion, or plain ole over-leveraging. People flat out just ask brokers if they’ll do it, sometimes referred to as “creative” mortgage work.
It’s named after Brampton, Ontario. A small city in Greater Toronto, informally known as Canada’s mortgage fraud capital. It’s a modest suburb where the median household makes $87,300/year, with a median home price of $1.15 million. Hey, maybe a $600k downpayment is common in the largely unremarkable suburb, but that doesn’t change how many large busts of mortgage fraud are found.
Fraud for shelter isn’t just surging in use but expected to grow further with prices. CISC warns, “criminals with specialization in mortgage brokering are likely to target the growing population of borrowers who are unable to obtain loans from regulated institutions and assist them with fraudulent applications or direct them to colluding with shadow-lenders who will then charge inflated interest rates.”
Canada is taking steps to reduce the wide-open doors for money laundering. However, it waited for it to become a boiling point issue, internationally known. A small amount of laundering can inflate home prices due to basic market mechanics. We’re not talking about small numbers in Canada though, it’s actual GDP points of activity.
Measures like beneficial ownership registries are a step in the right direction. Currently Canada has no idea who owns a home or company, the data was never required. By implementing this, laundering becomes more difficult, but not impossible. In the meantime, home prices inflated away since this discussion first happened in 2020. To help buyers cope with the impact, they were given cheap rates and more leverage.
Heck, the government will even buy a part of the home with you. In other words, an intelligence agency warned criminals are laundering through real estate. Canada gave money launderers an end date at which they would need to dispose of the property… then gave home buyers more leverage to buy property. We may have just witnessed the first bailout of money launderers. Well, the first bail out of money launderers without a European bank.
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