 | The Law Society of British Columbia has ordered the suspension of West Vancouver lawyer Donald Gurney for six months for professional misconduct in letting $25,845,489 of offshore cash flow into the country. He provided no services for the massive cash but charged a tenth of one per cent of the amount given “the risk involved.” In a 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision lawyers won an exemption from the reporting rules that apply to everybody else. In May, the disciplinary panel found that Gurney — a septuagenarian 49-year veteran of the bar — flowed nearly $26 million from Belize, Marshall Islands and Nevis into a newly incorporated B.C. firm “with, as far as he knew, no assets and no plans.” |
