A would-be Chinese immigrant businesswoman is suing a troubled BC Cancer Agency spinoff company after a board member allegedly defrauded her out of more than C$200,000 (US$153,422) by promising to help fast-track her immigration application under the Provincial Nominee Program.In two lawsuits filed a year apart, plaintiff Yaping Lai claims in BC Supreme Court that Kuen Yu “Joseph” Kwok, a self-described “prominent businessman and a director of several notable companies, including Perceptronix Medical Inc.” defrauded her out of more than C$200,000 in connection with her bid to immigrate to Canada.Perceptronix was spun off from the BC Cancer Agency in 1999 to commercialise automated cancer-screening technology. Lai claims she lives and works in China and speaks no English. She claims she signed two deals with Kwok in February 2014, one worth C$420,000 (US$322,131) for Kwok handling her immigration application, and another worth C$1 million (US$766,857) for shares in Perceptronix.
Source: Canadian Cancer agency spinoff faces fraud allegations | South China Morning Post
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