Three B.C. Court of Appeal judges unanimously agree lower court judge erred in 2020 ruling that allowed bikers to keep their properties
B.C.’s top court has ruled that three Hells Angels’ clubhouses can be seized by the province because the bikers will likely keep using these locations to plan more crime,
Instead, the appeal judges ruled, it can be clearly inferred from the evidence of the bikers’ past crimes that they used – and would continue to use – the clubhouses as safe spaces to hatch plans away from the prying eyes of police. “It’s frustrating for British Columbians to know that people are known to police – they’re driving luxury cars, they own real estate and they don’t appear to have any source of income for that – are operating quite openly in our province,” he told reporters in Victoria.
The Hells Angels brought a constitutional challenge against the forfeiture office and all three proceedings were wrapped into a single case before the B.C. Supreme Court., which created to fight organized crime but came to have a far broader reach. A 2014 Globe investigation found its process, known as administrative forfeiture, made it quicker and easier to seize property worth less than $75,000 if authorities believe it is the product of unlawful activity.
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