The B.C. government wants three Lower Mainland properties forfeited, alleging the owners were part of a sophisticated operation to produce fentanyl in clandestine labs.

The civil forfeiture lawsuit filed this week lays out steps the alleged fentanyl producers took to make the deadly substance.

A fake company imported the necessary precursor chemicals, and lab equipment was purchased and moved to locations in Aldergrove, Pitt Meadows and Mission, according to the lawsuit.

Details in the lawsuit match those released by the RCMP’s federal and serious organized crime unit in April about the seizure of equipment and finished product at the labs, which “were equipped with specialized chemical processing equipment often found in academic and professional research facilities, with one of the a

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