The Vancouver Sun reports in its Thursday edition that in response to British Columbia's demand to explain the source of millions sitting in a Vancouver lawyer's trust account, a U.K. citizen has denied any wrongdoing and called the forfeiture action abusive. The Sun's Gordon Hoekstra writes that B.C. is attempting to use a so-called unexplained wealth order to help prosecute a civil case in which it wants $4.5-million in the trust account of recently disbarred lawyer Ronald N. Pelletier forfeited as the proceeds of crime. The province alleges the money is profit from a $78-million pump-and-dump stock fraud and was laundered through the trust account. In a response filed in B.C. Supreme Court this month, Kevin Patrick Miller, 54, whose last known location was Malta, denies he took part in the alleged fraud or transferred any profits to the lawyer's trust fund. He added there is no direct connection between the funds in Mr. Pelletier's trust account and the alleged unlawful activity. In 2017, Mr. Miller reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and agreed to pay back $900,000 (U.S.) that includes interest without denying or admitting allegations he participated in the alleged stock fraud.