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   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   The B.C. government wants to keep more than $100,000 seized by the   
   RCMP in 2005 during a major crackdown on the Hells Angels.   
      
   The director of civil forfeiture says the money came from the sale of   
   methamphetamines, mostly by former Hells Angels associate and meth   
   cook Kerry Ryan Renaud.   
      
   In October 2008, Renaud was sentenced to 32 months in jail after   
   pleading guilty to conspiracy to produce and traffic meth.   
      
   Renaud produced and sold the drugs to members and associates of the   
   notorious motorcycle gang’s East End chapter.   
      
   He used other individuals, including former Hells Angels associates   
   Benjamin Azeroual and Nima Ghavami to help with the production and   
   trafficking of the drugs, according to the lawsuit.   
      
   Ghavami and Azeroual were arrested along with Renaud during the RCMP’s   
   Project E-Pandora in 2005.   
      
   Ghavami was acquitted of the drug-trafficking charges after a judge   
   deemed there had been an unreasonable delay in the case getting to   
   trial. That ruling was successfully appealed by the prosecution and a   
   new trial ordered, but no new trial has been held.   
      
   The Crown directed a stay of the drug trafficking charges against   
   Azeroual early on in the proceedings.   
      
   A third man — Visiene Vongnarj — is also identified in the lawsuit as   
   being an individual who helped Renaud with the production and   
   trafficking of the drugs.   
      
   According to the suit, Renaud made a series of payments to a police   
   agent representing the proceeds from his meth operation. The police   
   agent would then turn over the funds to the RCMP.   
      
   The largest payment was in November 2004, when Renaud provided $27,980   
   to the agent, who handed it over to the RCMP.   
      
   Nearly $114,000 in total — most of it from Renaud — was seized by the   
   RCMP.   
      
   “If the money had not been seized, it would have been used to   
   purchase, traffic or produce methamphetamines and/or it would have   
   been applied toward the further commission of other Criminal Code   
   offences,” says the lawsuit.   
      
   It’s the latest in a series of civil-forfeiture cases aimed at the   
   Hells Angels.   
      
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