Owners of seized Hells Angels clubhouses in B.C. file court application to appeal | 24CA News
The authorized combat for the Hells Angels clubhouses doesn’t look like over but.
Angel Acres Recreation and Festival Property, the homeowners of Nanaimo, Kelowna and East Vancouver clubhouses that have been seized final week, filed an software in Canada’s highest court docket on April 18 for depart to attraction a choice involving the Director of Civil Forfeiture.
Whether the Supreme Court will determine to listen to the case or not stays to be seen.
The B.C. authorities seized three Hells Angels‘ clubhouses last Friday, based on a previous B.C. Court of Appeal decision that sided with B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture workplace.
The transfer got here almost two months after B.C.’s prime court docket dominated three Hells Angels’ clubhouses have been eligible for seizure as a result of members will probably maintain utilizing these areas to plan extra crime.
“Three clubhouses are now the official property of the province of British Columbia,” Mike Farnworth, solicitor basic, minister of public security and deputy premier of B.C., stated on the time.
“The province was successful in its case, in its appeal, which went all the way to the Supreme Court that this property can be forfeited. It is the proceeds of a criminal organization.”
He stated B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture workplace will assess the three properties, decide their worth and determine what’s the very best use for the properties.
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