Owner of meth and fentanyl super lab property denies involvement with drug operation

The owner of a rural Okanagan property the RCMP alleges once held Canada’s largest and most sophisticated methamphetamine and fentanyl lab is fighting the B.C. government’s attempt to seize his land, stating he had no idea what his tenant was doing there.In a response filed in British Columbia Supreme Court this week, Michael Driehuyzen denies almost everything in the Civil Forfeiture Office’s Jan. 31 notice of civil claim.He agrees that he bought the property in Falkland, B.C., in 2007 and has a mortgage on it. But Mr. Driehuyzen, an electrician in the Vancouver suburb of Abbotsford, states he purchased the property with his savings and is asking the Civil Forfeiture Office to drop the pursuit of his land because he had no idea about any of the alleged criminal activity.