20110125/韩建国失踪前在Tim Hortons买午餐转车(附原文)

-韩建国失踪前在Tim Hortons买午餐转车
-Video shows missing real-estate agent got out of his car and into another
-Police hunt for missing real estate agent, client


韩建国失踪前在Tim Hortons买午餐转车

来源: 环球邮报

(加拿大新闻商业网 www.newnews.ca2011年1月25日讯)豪宅经纪韩建国和另一华商男子在密西沙加一幢豪宅失踪之前的一天,被摄下在多伦多一家Tim Hortons咖啡店附近,离开自己的奔驰座驾,登上另一辆汽车。

上周四中午皮尔区警察接报赶到密市Featherston Drive一座房屋,因为有人报称44岁的韩建国和40岁的费军失踪。费军是拥有该幢物业的数字公司的唯一董事,这幢物业正在挂牌出售,叫价2400万。

警方在屋内发现了一些值得注意的迹像,但拒绝作详细说明。

之前有猜测谓两人留在韩建国那辆2010年款的黑色奔驰轿车内,但星期四晚,警方在Don Mills Road夹Lawrence Avenue一家Tim Hortons咖啡店的停车场内发现韩的车辆,这家咖啡店离韩建国工作的HomeLife Lanmark Realty(大鹏地产)距离不到1公里。

Tim Hortons的经理D.J. Kim表示:保安录像显示韩建国上星期三中午12:45把车停在停车场。整整一天之后警方才接到报告。Kim对记者表示:“他下了车然后到店里买了些东西。”

过了几分钟,即是12:53,一辆深色轿车停在咖啡店前,韩建国坐上了司机旁边的乘客位,车子离去。Kim说:“司机没有下车。”

保安录像显示韩建国的汽车一直留在停车地点,直到星期四晚10:55警方到来调查。即是停了20 1/2小时。警方让拖车把车拉走。

皮尔区警察几天之后才透露发现了车辆。

星期一,警方发言人Zahir Shah警官没有确定有关韩建国的具体资料,亦没有回答有关该案的进一步问题。

关于费军的情况更是知之甚少,韩建国在来自中国大陆的移民之中是个出名的地产经纪,本身生长于山东。他就职的HomeLife Landmark大鹏地产公司,由Tony Ma及Melody Lao于2004年创办,根据该公司网页介绍,精于服务海外顾客。

网页上介绍:“为了更好地服务社会,我们的头等任务是为各种族裔群体提供最佳服务。几乎所有的经纪都懂得两种或以上的语言。”

韩建国的个人网页上则罗列他的高价楼盘、富豪顾客,及他如何从一个新移民打拼成富豪地产经纪。

根据销售纪录,他的业绩在节节上升,10月份他以超过100万售出自己在北约克Fenn Avenue的房屋,在东南方向数公里以外、离Bridle Path富豪区不远的地方,以250万买了另一幢房子,他在Bridle Path区还有一个叫价3000万的楼盘。

韩建国的新屋在Misty Crescent,向银行贷款140万。据中文媒体报道,他和妻子有一名10多岁的儿子。

Video shows missing real-estate agent got out of his car and into another

ANTHONY REINHART
Globe and Mail Update
Published Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 8:16AM EST
Last updated Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011 8:43AM EST

Luxury realtor Jianguo (Tony) Han left his Mercedes at a Tim Hortons in Toronto and rode off in someone else’s car the day before he and another man disappeared from a Mississauga mansion.

Mr. Han, 44, and Jun (Johnny) Fei, 40, were reported missing Thursday at around noon after Peel police were called to a house on Featherston Drive. Mr. Fei is the sole director of a numbered company that owns the house, which he had listed for sale through Mr. Han for $2.4-million.

Police found evidence of “concern” in the house but have refused to elaborate.

It was thought the two men might have left in Mr. Han’s black 2010 Mercedes sedan, but on Thursday night, police found the car in the parking lot of a Tim Hortons at Don Mills Road and Lawrence Avenue. The restaurant is less than a kilometre from HomeLife Landmark Realty, the brokerage where Mr. Han works.

D.J. Kim, manager of the Tim Hortons, said security video shows that Mr. Han parked outside the restaurant at 12:45 p.m. last Wednesday, a full day before police were called.

“He got out of his car and came into the store and he bought something here,” Mr. Kim told The Globe and Mail.

Minutes later, at 12:53, a different dark-coloured sedan pulled up in front of the restaurant, and Mr. Han got in on the passenger side before it drove off, Mr. Kim said. “The driver did not get out,” he said.

The security video shows that Mr. Han’s car remained in its parking spot until police arrived to investigate Thursday night at 10:55 p.m. Two-and-a-half hours later, police had a tow truck come to haul the car away, Mr. Kim said.

Peel police did not reveal that the car had been found until several days later.

Sergeant Zahir Shah, a police spokesman, would not confirm details of Mr. Kim’s account or answer further questions about the case on Monday.

Little is known about Mr. Fei, but Mr. Han appears to be a well-known real-estate agent among well-to-do immigrants from mainland China, where he grew up in Shandong Province. The HomeLife Landmark brokerage that employs him, set up in 2004 by Tony Ma and Melody Lao, specializes in clients from abroad, according to its website.

“In order to better serve the community, it is of the utmost importance for us to provide the best service to many different ethnic groups,” the site says. “Almost all of our salespersons are knowledgeable in two or more languages.”

Mr. Han’s personal website, meanwhile, boasts of his high-priced listings, his moneyed clients and his ascent from grass-cutting newcomer to wealthy real-estate agent.

Property records bolster his upwardly mobile narrative: In October, Mr. Han sold his home on Fenn Avenue in North York for just over $1-million and bought a $2.5-million manse a few kilometres to the southeast, within striking distance of the exclusive Bridle Path enclave, where he currently has a $30-million listing.

Mr. Han’s new home, on Misty Crescent, carries a $1.4-million mortgage. Chinese-language news reports suggest he and his wife have a teenage son.


Police hunt for missing real estate agent, client

Published On Mon Jan 24 2011

Police tape seals of home at 1801 Featherston Drive in Mississauga. Peel police say Jun (Johnny) Fei Jiangou (Tony) Han are missing from the home.

Toronto Star/Jim Wilkes

Jim Wilkes and Nicholas Keung
Staff Reporters

It’s as if the ground opened up and swallowed Tony Han and Johnny Fei.

It’s a mystery for Peel police, who have been trying to track down the two North York men since they disappeared last Thursday from a ritzy home in Mississauga.

Police are tight-lipped about the case but have hinted they found something amiss when officers went to the 15-room mansion, a stone’s throw from the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus.

Jianguo Han, a 44-year-old real estate agent who goes by the name Tony, works out of Homelife/Landmark Realty’s Markham office and had been trying to sell the home for several months. His missing car, a black Mercedes, was found in Don Mills on Sunday.

Jun Fei, 40, likes to be called Johnny and is the wealthy administrator of a numbered company that owns the nearly $2.5 million estate.

Family members who reported them missing told police it was “highly unusual” for either man to be missing.

Const. Adam Minion of Peel police said the home on Featherston Dr., just off Mississauga Rd., near Dundas St. W., was the pair’s “last known destination.”

“They were believed to have gone to that house and that’s where they were last known to be when they were reported missing,” he said.

“All indications at this point lead us to believe that they actually got there — or at least somebody did.”

As for Han’s car, Minion said “that’s suspicious to us until we confirm one way or another” where the men are.

Police can’t or won’t say whether they’ve found evidence of foul play in the home or the car.

Neighbours said the tree-shrouded house with seven bathrooms and a huge backyard had been for sale for months throughout the fall. A SOLD sign never appeared on the property, they said.

Police cruisers and a forensics command post were at the scene on Friday as investigators literally scoured the place for clues to the men’s disappearance.

Han is well-known in the real estate community and has a website laced with self-promotion and braggadocio.

He was born in China’s Shandong province and has sold many multi-million dollar homes.

The site claims he’s been Homelife/Landmark’s top sales agent for many years and that in 2009, the parent company honoured him as the “chief real estate elite salesman.”

He writes that his principles and ethics are based on the concept “if you work with the elites, you will become one yourself.”

The site boasts that Han is very knowledgeable of the Toronto-area real estate market and has sold many luxury homes and land development investment projects.

Han graduated from Beijing’s Chinese Renmin University, with a degree in international trade.

In an interview with the Chinese-language Celebrity Businessman magazine last year, Han gave a reporter a tour of his North York home, which faces a forested valley. He said the view reminded him of the farm village where he grew up in Shandong.

Han said no matter how late he got home, he would always stand in the backyard to find inspiration in the stars in the night sky.

He said he could even find joy in adversity.

“As long as you have a dream, you can make the dream happen in Canada,” he said.

When he first came to Canada, he worked in landscaping and chopped trees to help make ends meet. He said it doesn’t matter what he does, the experience he accumulates is a learning process.

He said he began his career in real estate after buying a house and being praised by the agent for his knowledge of architecture and homes.

At his company’s Christmas party last month, he sponsored more than 10 tables for his clients to celebrate being named top sales agent for the second year in a row.

He is married and has a son in high school.

Little is known about Fei and police say neither man was known to them prior to their disappearance.

Calls to Fei’s law firm and Han’s employer were not returned.