B.C. badminton community concerned after learning of executive director’s fraud conviction [Video]

Members of B.C.’s badminton community are voicing concerns over the leadership of Badminton B.C. after learning the organization’s executive director was hired only months after being convicted of fraud for stealing more than $100,000 from a former employer.

Court records show Daisy Lee pleaded guilty in 2017 to fraud over $5,000. She was sentenced on Feb. 9, 2018 to a 12-month conditional sentence followed by 12 months probation.

The reasons for judgment state Lee was the “controlling mind” in schemes that allowed her to steal $104,000 from her employer Telus between 2012 and 2015.

Lee was appointed to the paid position of Badminton B.C. executive director in June 2018, four months after being sentenced, and has held the job ever since.

Before becoming executive director, she sat on the volunteer Badminton B.C. board of directors for approximately four years.

Thomas Hu, whose three children play the sport in Victoria, said news of Lee’s conviction …