A B.C. woman who lost $69,000 to a fraudster has won the right to sue the Canadian branch of the Bank of China after she appealed the ruling denying her claim.
In 2018, Li Zheng sent $69,000 to an unknown individual in Hong Kong, according to court documents filed in support of her lawsuit.
The fraudster told Zheng that she had two choices: fly back to China where she would be held in jail during the investigation or transfer the funds to Hong Kong and the money would be returned to her after the investigation. In her original lawsuit, Zheng claimed that the bank knew about a prevailing fraud of this type targeting people like her and failed to warn her — an allegation that has not been proven in court.
Griffin found the Bank of China did not provide evidence proving it didn't know of a similar fraud affecting other people like Zheng or that it warned her.
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