A notorious casino money launderer who died in a hail of bullets in a Japanese restaurant in Richmond, Metro Vancouver, wasn’t the intended target, according to prosecutors. Jian Jun Zhu, left, was shot dead at a Vancouver-area sushi restaurant in September 2020, but his dining companion Paul Jin, right, was the intended target, according to prosecutors. (Image: Pechanga.net) Jian Jun Zhu was the operator of Silver International, an underground bank with links to drug cartels that washed hundreds of millions of dollars through Vancouver-area casinos. But on Sept. 18, 2020, Jian was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and dining with the wrong man, when Richard Reed, 25, allegedly fired seven rounds from a Norinco 1911 semi-automatic pistol into the restaurant. The real target was Zhu’s companion Paul “King” Jin, an alleged illegal gambling operator who used Silver International to launder money, according to prosecutors. Jin was injured… Read More

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