These corporate claims were filed with the B.C. Supreme Court registry in Vancouver.
Information is derived from notices of civil claim. Civil claims have not been tested or proven in court.
Defendant
Xiao Hong Xiong
Plaintiff
Wei Tse Tsai also known as Danny Tsai and Lu Rou Fan Tasty Franchises Inc.
Claim
$145,500 to repay a business loan for the restaurant defendant, and $365,000 to cover a project loan and a ventilator loan provided by the plaintiff to the defendants after the defendants pivoted from running a restaurant to selling ventilators to Taiwan.
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Defendant
Alfred John Venegas
Plaintiffs
CT21 Analytics Inc. and Anne Wong and Paul Wong
Claim
$530,734 for debt under loans provided by the Wong plaintiffs to the defendant and damages for breach of duty as a director of CT21.
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Defendant
Kai Chun (Samson) Chan and Sanhe Food International Ltd. and Five Continents International Ltd.
Plaintiff
Thai United Food Trading Ltd.
Claim
Damages for breach of contract and breach of duty in Chan’s role as a senior manager in the plaintiff company after Chan resigned and used the plaintiff’s confidential information to the benefit of his new employer, Sanhe, and for defamatory statements made about Thai United following his resignation.
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Defendants
Richard Voigt and Shane Stefanek and Cameron Kernested and Lorilee Kristy Reid and Coast Industrial Services Ltd.
Plaintiff
Uptime Industrial Inc.
Claim
Damages for breach of contracts and conspiracy after the defendants, as former employees, used the plaintiff’s confidential information to advance their new business.
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Defendants
Samer Sahmani and Sofra Restaurants Ltd.
Plaintiff
Ramez Pasbakhsh
Claim
$450,000 to return funds improperly withdrawn from the Sofra Restaurants bank account by Sahmani, as restaurant manager and minority owner, and further damages for failing to provide details of the restaurant’s financial information to the plaintiff as a majority owner of Sofra.