明报温哥华专讯/列治文昨日发生枪杀案，一名华裔女子在一辆平治房车内被人枪杀。根据本报消息来源及亚裔帮派调查探员的证实，死者是在大温“大耳窿”放数世界的“大家姐”，40岁的甄彤施(Betty Tung Sze Yan；译音)，人称“Betty姐”，她亦曾经被移民部指与远华案涉嫌主脑赖昌星有来往，反黑组消息指出，甄彤施与黑道、警方、中国都有联系，是“三面人”。
亚裔帮派探员说，甄彤施被人杀死的结局“这是迟早的问题。”探员说：“Betty与帮派分子来往甚密，也与我们(警方)有联系，亦有人猜想她向中国提供情报。”
中枪伏尸豪华车司机位
警方是于昨日凌晨4时20分接到路人举报，指在壳路(Shell Road)2500号路段接近桥港路(Bridgeport Road)的一个停车内，发现可疑事件。警员到场后发现女死者倒卧在一辆平治4门房车的驾驶座上，救护员到场后证实不治。调查期间，该辆灰色名贵房车的右转灯仍然不断闪动。
(曾有人在列市四處張貼傳單，提醒市民小心甄彤施夫婦。)
死者通吃黑白两道
据悉，甄彤施通吃黑白两道，除了是本地放数界的大姐大外，她还担当警方“线人”，向加国警方提供三合会的内幕消息。警方消息透露，身高5尺2寸的甄彤施在1969年11月7日出生于广东，在八十年代时，经过泰国偷渡到加拿大，并迅速投入本地华人的犯罪世界，而警方也很快就开始监察她的行踪。
她的丈夫关卓伟(Chek Wai Kuan；译音)也是警方熟悉人物，另外她有一名7岁儿子及一名13岁女儿。
她来加后，随即申请难民，但被拒，她在2000年被下令递解出境，警方消息称，当时她向当局“表白”自己是中国政府的间谍，并以向警方提供三合会情报来换取留下来。
探员指出，甄彤施无论去到哪里，暴力罪案就去到那里。一名反黑组探员说：“她是一名凶悍的女人，当她觉得有人要对付她时，她会用自己的子女做人肉盾牌。”
高利贷外兼营洗黑钱
消息指出，甄彤施除了放高利贷外，她还非常活跃帮人洗黑钱，每日经她手的现金，达数十万。
甄彤施更是垄断大温地区的赌场放数市场，料她的去世，会引起众多“小高利贷”争夺她的皇位。
《省报》指出，甄彤施昨日伏尸的地方，是一间叫做Canadian Chinese Chess Society的会所，据悉她与该会所有密切关系，而她亦与一间叫做“加拿大金融顾问公司”(Canadian Monetary Consultant Corp.；译音)的公司有关，据悉该公司与大陆方面有关连。
消息来源指出，远华案涉嫌主脑赖昌星十年前潜逃来加拿大后，甄彤施是最早与他有来往的人。根据移民部曾经向法庭提交的纪录，当赖昌星还住在位于西57街的百万豪宅时，有一日，警方截停赖昌星的Range Rover汽车，当时发现甄彤施同在车上，甄彤施还冒称是赖的妻子。
《省报》称，中国当年曾派员来加企图说服赖昌星返国，而甄彤施是中间人。甄彤施在机场接待中方的代表，开车送他们到列治文一间酒店中进行谈判，整个过程均在警方的监视下进行。
卑诗博彩公司一份内部文件显示，甄彤施与多伦多三合会“功乐”及温哥华的“大圈仔”有合作关系，共同“?食”。
多年前，赖昌星被《省报》问及是否认识甄彤施时，他说“只认识她一点点”(Only a little bit)。
案件由整合凶杀调查组接手，该组发言人卡尔(Dale Carr)透露，死者表面上看来是死于枪伤，但需要进行验尸，才能确定。卡尔说，行凶者应该是针对死者而来，不是随机作案。
案发现场地点隐蔽，离大路较远，四面均被办公楼及货仓包围，大街上不能够直接看到。
在案发现场附近上班的多名租户指出，附近有人经营地下赌场，专门招待华裔顾客，设有麻雀耍乐，一般在晚上10时11时开始营业，有很多人出入，通宵达旦，开业已经有一年多时间。
卡尔拒绝证实死者是否涉入地下赌场的高利贷活动。他说，警方目前最需要弄清楚的是死者为何会在这一个时间出现在这个隐蔽地方。
警方指大家姐凶悍
恐吓杀害“债仔”及家人绝不留情
绰号“大家姐”的甄彤施在本地高利贷圈子中已凶悍闻名。甄彤施与丈夫关卓伟在本地从事高利贷活动，2002年有人在列治文张贴传单，指其为高度危险人物，涉及一宗残忍谋杀案；2004年时她曾因恐吓一名未能还款的华裔女子、恐吓证人，而二度被捕。
消息指，甄彤施1996年自中国偷渡来加拿大，2001年起便与丈夫一起在本地“放贵利”。他们通常针对华裔赌徒，相信部分是由于甄彤施英语不流利。
警方消息称，甄彤施的收数手法以凶悍见称，她会先以口头恐吓杀害“债仔”，甚至伤害“债仔”的家人，并威胁强抢其车辆。假如“债仔”仍不还钱，她便会雇用打手，殴打“债仔”逼其就范，出手毫不留情。
2002年一名华裔女子，因还不出钱遭恐吓，而向警方报案。警方逮捕甄彤施并控以派人收数等相关罪名，被法庭裁定保释后审，但令其不得接触受害人。温哥华市警发言人布雷尔(Sarah Bloor)当时透露，甄彤施却让丈夫去赌场拦住受害人，将受害人带到赌场外后递上电话，由她自己出言恐吓，要受害人放弃指控。甄彤施因此再被捕，并被加控恐吓及勒索罪名，关卓伟则因涉协助骚扰证人，同时被捕。
布雷尔并指出，甄彤施以暴力放贵利，以广为人知，绰号为“大家姐”，可能为一些组织的首领。由于她有同党协助收数，警方相信其与华裔犯罪组织有勾结。
此外，在02年，还有人在列市四处张贴传单，指其涉及02年9月15日凌晨3时半发生于列市的一宗命案，提醒市民小心甄彤施夫妇。
生前疑涉赌场放数.亚裔女子伏尸名车
星岛日报温哥华记者周文琳/一个疑涉及高利贷放数、警方形容为极度熟悉的卅余岁亚裔女子，在卑诗烈市东区被发现中枪死亡。警方事后把一男子带返警局协助调查。
凶案现场位于烈治文蚬壳路（Shell Rd.）2560号刚落成几个月、分为3座的全新工商业村，现已入伙的只有几个单位，包括一家私人会所。周三凌晨4时20分，一个途经现场的女子致电911，指发现一女子伏尸在汽车车厢。
骑警赶抵现场，发现女死者卧在一辆平治S550灰色房车里面，该车仍亮着方向灯。救护员到场后，证实女子已经身亡。
警方事后把附近一带封锁调查，当时停车场有另外一辆四门打开的福特F-150小货车，停在距平治房车对出约50尺外的路中心，其后一名男司机带返警局助查。
综合凶杀案调查组（IHIT）发言人卡尔（Dale Carr）表示：“死者是一个卅多岁亚裔女子，是警方熟悉人士。她遭人用枪射杀，但不确定中了多少枪。”
卡尔又说，警方已经掌握死者身分，但由于仍未能与她的亲人取得联系，暂不能公布姓名。他指出，女死者生前涉及非法勾当，但没有直接回应女死者是否涉及赌场放数的大耳窿。他透露：“现阶段未能确定这是一宗有目标的凶杀案，也不确定是否涉及帮派，但可以说如此情况被杀的女子，并不寻常。”
The life and death of ‘Big Sister’ Betty
Loan shark Betty Yan found shot dead in car
By Fabian Dawson, The Province April 16, 2009 9:03 AM
Betty Yan was found dead in this Mercedes.Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, The Province
All who knew her came to the same conclusion.
“It was only a matter of time,” said Asian organized-crime investigators who spoke to The Province about the woman found shot dead inside a Mercedes-Benz at a Richmond industrial complex Wednesday morning.
Her name was Betty Yan, a.k.a. Betty “the Loan Shark” Yan, a.k.a. “Big Sister” Betty, a.k.a. Betty Tung Sze Yan.
She was the mother of a seven-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.
On paper, she was married to Chek Wai Kuan — one of those who carries the moniker “known to police.”
Born in Guangdong, China, on Nov. 7, 1969, she slipped into Canada as a refugee via Bangkok, Thailand, sometime in the late 1980s and was quickly on the radar of Asian organized-crime investigators as she played her “guanxi” — the Chinese word for connections — to entrench herself in B.C.’s Chinese underworld.
Claiming that her dad was an officer with China’s Public Security Bureau, Yan also ingratiated herself with Canadian police officers, offering inside information on triads.
She was handled out of Richmond RCMP.
Police sources said she was ordered deported in 2000, at which time she “confessed” to being a spy for the Chinese government and offered to exchange intelligence if she was allowed to stay in Canada. “Betty was a player with the gangs, with us and some think with the Chinese intelligence,” said an RCMP criminal-intelligence analyst.
Violence followed her everywhere. Gangsters and fugitives were always close by.
“She was a violent woman who has been seen using her kids as human shields when she felt there was a hit on her,” said a gang-squad officer.
“The list of people who had motives for wanting her dead is long and large.”
Cpl. Dale Carr, spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said police were called at about 4:20 a.m. Wednesday to the 2500-block Shell Road in Richmond after being notified by 911 dispatch.
They found Yan dead in the driver’s seat of a grey Mercedes. The car was parked in front of unit 3028, which appeared to be either for sale or lease.
Several yellow and red posters with the Chinese characters “Dynasty Club” were on the windows next door, at unit 3033.
The business is listed in the telephone directory as that of the Canadian Chinese Chess Society.
Yan was heavily involved in the society, as well as with a company called Canadian Monetary Consultant Corp., which has ties to her native land.
According to police intelligence files, the Richmond resident, who once claimed to be a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security, was present when a loan shark nicknamed “Pretty Boy” Meng was gunned down in a Richmond restaurant in 1988.
She was also in the house when underworld figure Tommy Wong, 43, was shot to death during a home invasion in Richmond on Sept. 15, 2002.
During a double murder at a restaurant on Renfrew Street, she was playing mahjong with the wife of one of the targets.
She was also a known associate of Vancouver-based loan shark Kwok Chung Tam, who had his picture taken with former premier Glen Clark. The picture was found when police raided his Burnaby home and seized a pair of semi-automatic handguns, ammunition, a silencer, a half-pound of raw opium and almost $80,000 in cash.
Yan was one of the first people in Canada to hook up with China’s most wanted man, Lai Changxing, who has for the past decade been fighting to stay in Vancouver.
Lai Changxing fled to Vancouver in 1999 after he was accused of running a multibillion-dollar smuggling racket in Fujian.
About 15 people have been executed in China in connection with the case, while he continues his extradition battle in B.C.
Shortly after his arrival here and while living in a million-dollar mansion on West 57th Avenue in Vancouver with his wife and three kids, his Range Rover was stopped by Vancouver police for a check.
Yan was in the car and claimed to be his wife, according to an incident report.
China was by that time sending its agents covertly into Canada to try to persuade Lai to return.
Yan was their go-between.
She met the agents at Vancouver International Airport and drove them to a hotel in Richmond for negotiations, while under police surveillance. The Chinese secret agents used fake visas and invitation letters provided by two B.C. companies, Tricell (Canada) Inc. and Top Glory Enterprises Ltd., both incorporated in the late 1980s to work for the Communist government of China.
B.C. Lottery Corp. internal documents state Lai hooked up with Yan and others dubbed Black Ghost Ming and Stupid Ricky while making criminal connections with violent members of the Chinese mafia groups — the Kung Lok triad in Toronto and the Dai Huen Jai (Big Circle Boys) in Vancouver.
In a conversation with The Province five years ago, Lai admitted that he knew Yan but described her as a “crook and traitor.”
Not long afterward, posters were plastered around Richmond and Burnaby showing Yan with a man identified as Raymond and claiming that they were responsible for the murder of Tommy Wong in Richmond on Sept. 15, 2002.
Lai said he knew of the poster but did not know who was behind it.
At about that time, Yan offered to help the RCMP and Immigration Canada get Lai out of the country in exchange for landed status.
In February 2004, Vancouver police charged Yan with extortion and threatening.
She was released on a peace bond after a woman accused her of loan-sharking.
At the time, Vancouver police Const. Sarah Bloor said police believed there were “up to a dozen other victims.”
Yan’s police file states that, despite a casino ban, she had been seen at Metro Vancouver casino parking lots in her Mercedes.
Vancouver police described her operation as a ruthless, violent loan-sharking operation taking everything from citizenship cards to furniture as collateral.
Yan was the 33rd homicide of 2009 in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley this year.
Twenty are being investigated by IHIT and 13 by Vancouver police.
— with a file from Staff Reporter Lena Sin
Fabian Dawson is Deputy Editor of The Province
http://www.theprovince.com/news/life+death+Sister+Betty/1500291/story.html
