PORT COQUITLAM — When a woman answered a knock at the door of her home in Port Moody, B.C., in the spring of 2024, she was met by two men in Canada Post uniforms who said they had a package to deliver.

What unfolded over the next 13 hours was a horrific ordeal for the woman, her husband and their 18-year-old daughter, involving waterboarding, sexual assault and death threats, as a gang of home invaders conducted a cryptocurrency heist that saw them escape with more than $2 million worth of bitcoin.

The gang, including a Hong Kong man brought to Canada specifically to help conduct the raid, forced the daughter to strip naked, sexually assaulted her on camera, and used her screams to persuade her parents to hand over details of their bank and cryptocurrency accounts.

It ended the next mor

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