21 May 2015

File No: 2531.001

Via Email
CBC Vancouver
700 Hamilton Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 2R5
Attention:

Jason Proctor
jason.proctor@cbc.ca

Dear Sir:
Re:

Report re: Zhao Family

As you are aware, we are civil counsel to Mr Li Zhao, Ms Xiaomei Li, and Ms Yiming Zhao.
We write concerning your report, posted on the CBC website following the extraordinary
press conference held by Mr Qiang Yuan and his legal counsel.
Your report repeats scandalous speculation and outrageous allegations from Mr Yuan’s
counsel. The reported comments are inconsistent with the criminal charges Mr Zhao faces,
and in any event concern matters that are before the court. They are not proven facts.
My clients were not given advance notice of the press conference or the allegations that
would be levelled at them, and were accordingly hampered in their ability to provide
meaningful comment before the press conference was reported in the media. My clients have
grave concerns as to what motivated the press conference and are considering all of their
legal rights at this stage. In the meantime, they wish it to be noted that they deny all of the
allegations apparently made during the press conference and that were reported in your
article and others.

Hunter Litigation Chambers Law Corporation
2100 – 1040 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4H1
tel: 604 891 2400 fax: 604 647 4554
www.litigationchambers.com
750400-1

Brent B. Olthuis
direct: 604 647 3540

email: bolthuis@litigationchambers.com
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The standards of responsible journalism demand that, in the future, you provide our clients a
meaningful opportunity to respond to whatever things are said about them. These are serious
matters and sensationalism must be avoided.
Yours truly,
Hunter Litigation Chambers

Per:
Brent B. Olthuis
BBO/