Vancouver: Almost 10 years after Ripudaman Singh Malik was acquitted in the Air India bombing, the B.C. government and his family are still battling in court over the money used to pay his legal fees.
The government wants Malik, his wife and his three eldest sons to pay damages, alleging they conspired to hide his assets so he would qualify for legal funding before his terrorism trial began in 2003.
Malik was acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges on March 16, 2005, but continued to fight the government’s efforts to get repayment of more than $5 million loaned for his defence team.
The Vancouver businessman finally repaid the millions in February 2012, but that didn’t end the long-running civil suit by the government.
The attorney general’s latest statement of claim, filed last July, alleges Malik, his wife Raminder and sons Jaspreet, Hardeep and Darshan, “wrongfully and maliciously conspired together to defraud and injure the plaintiff by assisting Ripudaman to hide his assets and disguise his net worth.”
It also says they created numbered companies that they used “to enter into sham transactions, to make payments not owed and to acknowledge liabilities that do not exist.”
02/12/14 Kim Bolan/Vancouver Sun
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The government wants Malik, his wife and his three eldest sons to pay damages, alleging they conspired to hide his assets so he would qualify for legal funding before his terrorism trial began in 2003.
Malik was acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges on March 16, 2005, but continued to fight the government’s efforts to get repayment of more than $5 million loaned for his defence team.
The Vancouver businessman finally repaid the millions in February 2012, but that didn’t end the long-running civil suit by the government.
The attorney general’s latest statement of claim, filed last July, alleges Malik, his wife Raminder and sons Jaspreet, Hardeep and Darshan, “wrongfully and maliciously conspired together to defraud and injure the plaintiff by assisting Ripudaman to hide his assets and disguise his net worth.”
It also says they created numbered companies that they used “to enter into sham transactions, to make payments not owed and to acknowledge liabilities that do not exist.”
02/12/14 Kim Bolan/Vancouver Sun
