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The British Columbia Law Society Tribunal Hearing Division has disbarred an attoorney

  In the case at bar, the Respondent has been found to have committed professional misconduct by using his firm’s trust account for his personal financial benefit to receive and disburse his own funds (which were proceeds of an unlicensed cannabis business), drafting misleading documents as support for purported loans related to the funds, and making numerous misrepresentations to the Law Society, all to conceal the scheme he created to disguise the source of his own funds and disburse them back to himself as and when he wished. He breached trust accounting rules in regard to depositing and maintaining over $300 of his own funds in trust and failing to keep the required general account records. Finally, he acted in conflicts of interest when arranging to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from his clients as well as acting for both parties in loan transactions without their knowledge and consent.