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A Burnaby currency exchange is suing a former employee for allegedly defrauding the company of more than $4.4 million over several years. Crystal Currency Exchange Inc. at Crystal Mall provides foreign currency exchange services and helps Canadian customers send money to China. The company launched a civil suit against ex-employee Dan Qing Wang (also known as Lisa Wang) and her mother Pu Wang in March 2022. In January 2022, the company had identified a transaction on its daily ledger that hadn’t been authorized and didn’t match any of its known customers, according to . Wang, who initiated and completed the transaction, told the company it had been a "mistake" and that she had also accidentally deleted all the records and emails associated with it, according to the claim. Wang paid back the funds (42,000 Chinese renminbi – or yuan – just over $8,110 today), left the company, and moved back to China. An internal investigation then revealed hundreds of unauthorized transactions over many years, all completed on days Wang was working and signed off on the ledger, according to court documents. As of October, the company said it has discovered 457 such unauthorized transactions totalling nearly 24 million renminbi ($4.4 million). "Only Ms. Wang knows the full extent of her actions," states Crystal Currency's notice of civil claim. The company says it doesn't know the full particulars of Wang's scheme but claims she used the unauthorized transactions to funnel money into accounts she had set up in China and then covered her tracks during the reconciliation process. Wang denies the Crystal Currency's claims. In , she says she mistakenly sent the January 2022 transaction to someone she believed to have been a past client of Crystal Currency in China. She says she agreed to repay the money herself right away and recover it later from the Chinese client, but Crystal Currency refused to give her access to its previous client information. Wang denies any allegations of misappropriating funds from Crystal Currency and says there were five other people besides her responsible for outbound transactions at various times. Wang says the reason she stopped working for Crystal Currency in January 2022 was because the company had directed her to do things she disagreed with and that might have been illegal, including not reporting certain clients and their transactions to FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada) when they should have been reported and signing off on a transaction on which her boss, Angelyna Shi, had forged a client's signature. Wang claims Shi also compelled her to impersonate her during phone calls to Canadian banks regarding Shi's personal accounts because Shi didn't speak fluent English. Wang says she complied in order to keep her job. In its response, the company denies Shi compelled Wang to impersonate her, saying instead that Shi sometimes asked employees to translate for her when she was talking to Canadian banks. Crystal Currency has successfully applied to have assets belonging to Wang and her mother frozen, including a in Burnaby. Crystal Currency says Wang and her mother had jointly owned the house before May 2016, at which time Wang and her mother transferred full ownership to Wang. One week after being asked about the unauthorized transaction in January 2022, however, Wang transferred full ownership of the house into her mother's name for "$1.00 and natural love and affection," according to the civil claim. Crystal Currency claims the move was designed to "defeat, delay, hinder, prejudice, or defraud" Wang's creditors, including Crystal Currency, of their "just and lawful remedies" against her and her property. But Wang says she had only ever held legal title on the property while her mother retained 100 per cent beneficial interest. She says her mother had never intended to gift the house to her, and Wang transferred the title back to her in January 2022 at her request. In , Pu Wang says she never intended to transfer the property to her daughter as an outright gift and that her daughter had made no payment or contribution to the acquisition, maintenance, upkeep, property tax or mortgage of the property. Crystal Currency rejected those claims, saying in its reply that Wang had contributed to the Burns Place property and contributed misappropriated funds to two other properties bought by her mother as well: a and a . Crystal Currency is suing Wang and her mother for the return of the alleged misappropriated funds and any profit made on them as well as damages, special damages and punitive damages. It is also asking for a slew of orders and declarations related to their assets. The company claims Wang breached her employment contract, defrauded the company and was unjustly enriched. None of the claims made by the company, Wang or her mother has been tested in court. A 23-day trial is scheduled starting April 14.
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Israeli attorney general orders probe into report that alleged Netanyahu's wife harassed opponentsAkon , the multi-platinum artist turned entrepreneur, opened up about the progress of his ambitious Akon City project. During a candid interview with Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop , he reiterated that the city is in development. Akon first announced Akon City in 2018, meant to be a futuristic, eco-friendly city in Senegal powered by cryptocurrency. Fans immediately likened it to Wakanda, the fictional African city that Marvel's Black Panther series takes place in. That was in part because the first Black Panther film released just a few months before his initial announcement. Now, Akon's admitting that he may have gotten ahead of himself when first explaining the massive undertaking. “My biggest thing was I promoted it way, way, way too early,” Akon said during the interview with Creekmur. He said that excitement motivated the early announcement. "Of course, anything that exciting that would change a culture, people will naturally want to know what’s happening right now, assuming that it’s already happening. But it was in a process of creating." The vision for the city began as a technological and economic hub for Africa, including luxury apartments, a cryptocurrency-based economy and progressive energy solutions. Read More: Kendrick Lamar Shocks The World With New "GNX" Snippet Akon stressed the magnitude and complexity of the effort: “It’s a city. Nowhere near done.” Early plans included 2,000 acres and a $6 billion price tag to complete. Akon and his team broke ground in 2020 . Akon City's goal is to be a source of innovation for Africa. It is located in Mbodiene, Senegal, with a goal of attracting tourists, entrepreneurs and investors. 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European markets are expected to open in negative territory Tuesday, retreating from yesterday's mostly positive trading session , as traders gear up for the latest U.S. inflation report this week. > 24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index is expected to open 38 points lower at 8,315, Germany's DAX down 76 points at 20,274, France's CAC down 31 points at 7,454 and Italy's FTSE MIB down 139 points at 34,429, according to data from IG. There are no major earnings releases in Europe Tuesday. Data releases include final German inflation data for November. Traders are looking ahead to U.S. inflation data due Wednesday. The consumer price index data will likely influence how the Federal Reserve proceeds on interest rates at its Dec. 17-18 meeting. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast that headline inflation rose 0.3% in November and 2.7% over the prior 12 months. U.S. stock futures hovered near the flatline on Monday evening, after both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite pulled back from record highs in yesterday's trading session. Overnight in the Asia-Pacific region, China stocks rose Tuesday amid broader gains among other regional markets. Money Report Travel is finally back — and an era of huge growth is upon us Luigi Mangione charged with murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court record shows — CNBC's Brian Evans contributed to this market summary CNBC Pro: Deutsche Bank names its UK “top pick” stocks with compounding growth potential — and one has more than 50% upside Deutsche Bank has named seven London-listed companies in the business services sector as its top investment picks for 2025, highlighting shares with strong growth potential and defensive characteristics in an uncertain market environment. One of the stocks has the potential to rise by more than 50% over the next 12 months, the bank said. 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