A former Richmond coffee shop owner who was accused of bigamy and immigration fraud by his wife, will probably not be charged for bigamy, according to the RCMP.
However, the immigration fraud charge is still under investigation by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
Vivian Wang met her husband, a café owner in Richmond at the time through a mutual friend in 2020 and married him in June 2022. However, Wang, a business owner in Taiwan, told the Richmond News in a March interview that she later found a marriage certificate of her husband and another woman registered in July 2022.
When Wang confronted her husband, he said he married the other woman to help her get permanent residency in Canada. Wang, who was staying with her friend in Burnaby at the time, reported it to Burnaby RCMP and returned to Taiwan in early April.
In a recent update provided by Burnaby RCMP, spokesperson Michael Kalanj told the News that the bigamy investigation has been concluded and “the likelihood of a polygamy charge was very low.”
But he refused to provide more details “for privacy reasons.” He also didn’t explain why Wang appeared to have two marriage certificates of her husband with different women dated a month apart.
Kalanj added that the immigration fraud portion of the investigation has been taken over by CBSA.
"I don’t know where they are with this investigation, but I can tell you the Burnaby RCMP is no longer a part of that aspect,” he said.
BC Prosecution Service said they did not receive a file on this case from the RCMP and do not have any information to provide related to it.
The News has reached out to CBSA but have not received a response.
