New data came to light last week about a family in British Columbia who went through a terrifying 13-hour home invasion in 2024. A group of masked attackers beat, waterboarded, and threatened them while stealing about $2 million in bitcoin.
The identity of the family was not made public.
In November, the Provincial Court of British Columbia sentenced a Hong Kong man involved in the crime, 35-year-old Tsz Wing Boaz Chan, to seven years in prison for his role in what a judge called an “elaborately planned” and extremely violent crime.
The attack happened on April 27, 2024, when two men dressed as Canada Post workers knocked on the family’s door in Port Moody. When the wife opened the door, the men forced their way in. Two more attackers followed, and the family (a husband, wife, and their teenage daughter) was tied up with zip ties.
From that moment, the violence escalated. Court documents say the intruders beat the family, threatened to kill them, and waterboarded both parents. They demanded passwords to the husband’s digital asset accounts.
Read the details here.
