The B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office has filed a civil lawsuit in the B.
C. Supreme Court to seize two Kelowna properties that it alleges are connected to criminal activity, together worth about $3 million. In its Tuesday notice of claim, the province alleges a luxury rural home in south Kelowna and a car customization business called All Out Customs & Collision Ltd.
were purchased using the proceeds of crime. The forfeiture office further alleges the business is a shell company used to launder drug money. Both are owned by Richard Kelly Madore, who was arrested last year after police raided All Out Customs.
B.C. police gang unit raided car shop The lawsuit states the province's anti-gang agency, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, began a drug trafficking investigation in February 2023.
During it, officers observed Madore going to his business at 460 Neave Ct. "for short duration meets and transportation of bags between vehicles, consistent with drug trafficking." On December 13, 2023, police executed a warrant on the property and seized 8.
2 kilograms of cannabis in garbage bags, over three kilograms of cannabis oil stored in seven jars, and smaller amounts of cocaine, MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms. They also found and confiscated $17,000 in cash, bundled in Ziploc bags, and a backpack. Madore was arrested at the time for possession for the purpose of trafficking, but no criminal charges have been laid against him so far.
B.C.'s civil forfeiture law faces 'reasonable li.
