College of Dental Surgeons wants renegade dentist Tung Sheng Wu to be sentenced in absentia

The renegade dentist who’s allegedly been working illegally in B.C. for up to ten years was the focus of a hearing in B.C. Supreme court today even though he was absent.

The College of Dental Surgeons of B.C. wants 62-year-old Tung Sheng Wu sent to jail and handed a stiff fine. They want him sentenced in absentia.

But, it appears Wu has gone underground and is in hiding.

“Mr. Wu has not been located,” said Brent Olthuis, the lawyer for the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C., outside court today.

“The College reward remains unclaimed, so we are going to be proceeding with the contempt application whether he shows up or not on October 9.”

The college has the documents Tung Sheng Wu would need to leave Canada.

“These are very recent passports, and we have them, so unless he has other documentation, then he is probably still here,” says Olthuis.

The college believes that even after all the publicity and court proceedings, Tung Sheng Wu may have planned to set up shop elsewhere.

His vehicle – on a lease from Honda – will be returned to the company, and some dental equipment discovered to be missing from a demonstration event will go back to its rightful owner.

“In that vehicle were over $50,000 worth of new dental equipment, including a chair that he had purchased overseas and shipped here. So it is unlikely he is going to ship it here to go out of country,” says Jerome Marburg with the College of Dental Surgeons. “But that also sends a message that this guy just does not have any regard for the courts or the college. He is ready to go and set up a practice again, and he needs to be stopped.”

There’s also a suggestion a lot of money needs to be accounted for.

“We’ve got permission to speak to Canada Revenue Agency,” says Marburg. “In the investigation we found that in 2011, he declared bankruptcy. But we also have evidence of large sums of money being shipped overseas, so he is clearly not bankrupt.”

Anyone with information about where Tung Sheng Wu is hiding can contact the investigators in confidence at 604-209-1708, or contact the police.