linked Yi Feng Wu, an alleged Chinese gangster fighting to stay in Canada, to a crime boss gunned down in front of his Shaughnessy mansion in November

A B.C. Mountie yesterday linked Yi Feng Wu, an alleged Chinese gangster fighting to stay in Canada, to a crime boss gunned down in front of his Shaughnessy mansion in November.Wu, 49, seeking official admissibility to Canada at an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in Vancouver, listened as RCMP Cpl. Lawrence Chung testified about a surveillance operation targeting now-deceased Raymond Huang.Huang was shot a number of times outside the gate to his $5-million home. His 10-year-old daughter called 911. No one has been arrested in his slaying.Huang was the most powerful figure in Vancouver's Asian underworld, Chung told the hearing yesterday. Police had been watching him for 18 months."He was suspected of facilitating and financing major shipments of precursor chemicals into Canada for manufacturing meta-amphetamines and ecstacy," Chung said.Officers had followed Huang to a Richmond trucking company registered to his wife and three men, where Chung and other police saw Wu leaving the premises.Informants last year told investigators that Wu was involved with the trucking company for illegal purposes, Chung said.
"He was using L and D Trucking company to transport precursor chemicals from Vancouver to Toronto," Chung said.In the wake of Huang's killing, police described him as a "Big Brother" in the Big Circle Boys, a Chinese gang said to be involved in drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping and credit-card counterfeiting.
Police allege Wu is also a Big Circle Boy, leader of a cell in the gang.
The federal Ministry of Public Safety is trying to have Wu declared inadmissible to Canada and be deported.Previous testimony has alleged his involvement in heroin dealing and smuggling cocaine from the U.S. He has not been convicted of any crime.
Earlier yesterday, a retired Los Angeles police officer testified that the FBI and other U.S. authorities believed Wu to be a "principal player" in a network trafficking cocaine, ecstacy and marijuana.Don Barfield told the hearing that a convicted Los Angeles drugtrafficker named Tat Hi Chan, co-operating with police in return for a lighter prison sentence, had described Wu's international criminal activities."He said, '[Wu] is a drug distributor in Vancouver and he traffics MDMA [ecstacy] and B.C. bud [high-quality B.C. pot] to the greater Los Angeles area in exchange for cocaine from Los Angeles back to Vancouver,'" Barfield testified.
Chan said Wu's ecstacy deals involved 80,000 to 100,000 tablets at a time, Barfield said.When Wu's lawyer, Chris Ho, pointed out that Barfield had said in a report that Chan had at times lied to police, Barfield said he believed Chan's statement about Wu was truthful because it came after police explained to Chan he wouldn't get a break on the prison sentence if he told lies.Wu is also connected to Bo Feng, a Los Angeles man in jail in Kansas on drug-trafficking charges from the 2004 seizure of 15 kilograms of cocaine and 70,000 ecstacy tablets, Barfield said.