Hong Kong resident sentenced Nov. 14, to seven years in prison by a Canadian court for taking part in a brazen home invasion carting away over a million dollars

On April 27 2024, Tsz Wing Boaz Chan, 35, and three others robbed a British Columbia couple of $1.6 million worth of Bitcoin

Homeowners were threatened with death, waterboarded and sexually assaulted to coerce access to their crypto accounts

The assault only ended when the homeowner’s daughter escaped to a neighbors house, after thirteen and half hours later, and dialed 911

Chan and crew meted out “extreme violence over a very long period, with enormous financial consequences’, with continuing “profound emotional impact” – judge

Chan claimed he was paid $280,000 Hong Kong dollars, about $36,000, for his role in the heist, and was ordered that he pay back his share of the loot as restitution

Investigation continues with the three other attackers seen on video yet to be identified, same for the fifth individual who allegedly directed the heist by phone

Tsz Wing Boaz Chan from Hong Kong, was sentenced to seven years on Nov. 14, by the Port Coquitlam Provincial Court in British Columbia, Canada

A Hong Kong man was sentenced to seven years in prison by a Canadian court for taking part in a brazen home invasion with three others — robbing a British Columbia couple of $1.6 million worth of Bitcoin after a 13-hour ordeal during which they sexually assaulted and tortured them.
Hong Kong resident Tsz Wing Boaz Chan pled guilty to break and enter, unlawful confinement and sexual Chan, 35, was sentenced on Thursday for what a British Columbia judge called “an elaborately planned offense that involved “extreme violence over a very long period, with enormous financial consequences, on top of the profound emotional impact it will continue to have on the victims.”
A British Columbia cryptocurrency investor known for his online boasts was robbed of $1.6 million in bitcoin after his family was held hostage overnight and subjected to waterboarding, sexual assault and death threats from masked intruders they knew only as “One,” “Two,” “Three” and “Four.”
Chan, an out-of-work sailor who was having a hard time making ends meet as a waiter, according to court documents was recruited in early 2024 by an acquaintance who proposed an opportunity that “involved going into someone’s house in Canada, beating someone up, and then leaving.” He claims “He was offered what was the equivalent of six months of his family mortgage payments.”
Chan flew in from Hong Kong in early 2024 to take part in the elaborately planned crime On the evening of April 27 of last year, the assailants pulled up to the home in Port Moody, BC, in a rented Honda Odyssey that was first spotted on CCTV around 5:28 p.m.

Two members of the four gang of home invaders were dressed as Canadian postal workers, staged a home invasion last year. They robbed the homeowners of $1.6 million worth of Bitcoin

The details of the terrifying attack were detailed this week by a B.C. Provincial court judge who sentenced Chan away for seven years.
By 6:00 p.m., the van returned and four men, one of them Tsz Wing Boaz Chan, were seen exiting the vehicle. Two of the intruders, dressed in fake Canada Post mailman uniforms, knocked on the door of the Canadian couple and gained entry to the home, allowing the remaining attackers inside.
What followed was a nearly fourteen hour ordeal during which the homeowner identified only as identified as “WG,” and his family were zip-tied, beaten, waterboarded sexually assaulted and threatened while the home invaders drained roughly $1.6 million from their cryptocurrency accounts.
The assailants are said to have targeted the couple who are well-known in the Chinese expatriate community in British Columbia, because the husband “boasted and exaggerated about his success with cryptocurrency investments”.
The robbers subjected husband and wife, whose identities have remained anonymous, to waterboarding.
At one point, the men waterboarded the wife, forcing her husband was forced to watch, and threatening she wife would die unless he divulged the passwords to his cryptocurrency accounts.

The thieves made off with $1.6 million worth of Bitcoin, according to Canadian court documents. Chan claims he only received only $36,000 of the loot. He haas been ordered to pay restitution of the same amount

When the password was not forthcoming, “WG,” was stripped naked and beaten several times throughout the night with an object, causing significant trauma to his legs and chest.
The assailants further threatened threatened to cut off the homeowner’s genitals if he did not provide them with access to his accounts.
The court papers also alleged that the assailants forced the couple’s teenage daughter, to simulate noises so as to “sound horny and moan” in order to make her parents think she was being sexually assaulted.
Delivering instructions over the phone with a voice filter, some one at the other end instructed WG’s young daughter to make sounds that would convince her father she was being raped. The men had the girl strip naked and touch herself while they filmed. After her parents were threatened that the kiddie porn would be posted on social media accounts, if they did not cooperate.
When WG eventually, was coerced to give up access to his cryptocurrency accounts, he was told “it was not enough, as they wanted 200 bitcoins.”
The assailants who eventually lowered the demand to 100 bitcoins, would then withdraw $1.6 million worth of the digital assets, “which effectively drained the [family’s] accounts,” according to court documents.

The robbers who arrived disguised as postal workers, meticulously planned the home invasion by surveilling the family weeks before the attack, the court heard. for the robbery, they arrived in the same white Honda Odyssey used for surveillance

Just shy of fourteen hours after the ordeal commenced, around 8:00 a.m. on April 28, the family’s daughter escaped and called 911 from a nearby friend’s home.
About the same time, CCTV captured three of the men, including Chan, fleeing the area in the Honda Odyssey.
When responding Port Moody police officers arrived at the home, thirty minutes after the call, the found the parents bound and injured inside. The husband, emerged from the home naked from the waist down with his hands tied behind his back.
To obfuscate their heinous deed, the attackers before fleeing attempted to destroy evidence by soaking the family’s electronics in a bathtub filled with water and bleach.
Investigators said the attack was meticulously planned. The criminals conducted surveillance and planted cameras around the property in order to gather detailed intelligence on the family’s cryptocurrency holdings and daily routines.
Police identified Chan through a combination of forensic evidence, rental records, and a trail of surveillance footage showing the attackers’ movements before, during, and after the home invasion.
CCTV cameras from neighboring houses captured a white Honda Odyssey repeatedly approaching the residence on the evening of April 27.
It showed four masked men exiting the vehicle that day. One figure, later confirmed to be Chan, was carrying a large cardboard box used to impersonate a package delivery.
Investigators noticed the van had distinctive roof tabs and traced it to a local auto dealership, where staff confirmed Chan had rented the vehicle shortly before the attack, and had requested an extension through April 30.
The van was returned less than two hours after the assailants left the home. Dealership security video showed Chan stepping out of the van wearing the same clothing seen in neighborhood surveillance footage. His DNA later matched multiple items left in the family’s home and a Canada-wide warrant was issued.
Canada Border Services Agency records show that Chan arrived in Canada on April 5, and returned to Hong Kong on May 1, 2024. just days after the home invasion.
Weeks later, police were alerted that Chan was inbound on a flight landing at Vancouver International Airport. The fugitive was arrested trying to re-enter Canada on July 25, 2024.
Chan claimed he was paid $280,000 Hong Kong dollars, [about $36,000], for his role in the heist. The court ordered that he pay back his share of the loot as restitution to the victims.
Reportedly, the Hong Kong native has been assaulted in prison by other inmates and struggles with back pain. He struggles in jail are exacerbated by his lack of English skills.
Given credit for time he has already served, Chan is expected to spend five more years incarcerated.
BC police say the investigation remains ongoing with the three other attackers seen on video yet to be identified. The fifth individual who allegedly directed the heist by phone has also not been located.