VANCOUVER -- A B.C. physician who once sat as an elected commissioner on the Vancouver Park Board has been charged with three more counts of indecent assault on female patients.

The three new counts against Dr. Yong include one alleged incident said to have taken place between 1980 and 1982, one allegation of indecent assault in 1972 and one in 1973, Crown counsel media spokesman Neil MacKenzie said yesterday.

When charges were first laid against Dr. Yong last year, Vancouver Police asked other complainants to come forward; more than a dozen contacted investigators.

A graduate of the University of Ottawa in 1969, Dr. Yong immigrated from Malaysia to Canada in 1963. Since 1973, he has been registered with the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons, the province's regulatory body for medical doctors.

Dr. Yong, a former president of the Vancouver Medical Association, was charged with trafficking in narcotics in 1984 for writing a prescription for a sex-trade worker and charging cash for it. The worker turned out to be an undercover police officer.

That conviction was overturned, but two years later, the college cited Dr. Yong for unprofessional conduct for using his brother's name on a prescription. He was ordered to pay a fine of $14,500 and his standing in the registry was temporarily downgraded.

His practice is located near Fraser Street, and Dr. Yong was the founding president of the Fraser Street community crime prevention office. In 1996, he was elected as a park board commissioner with the Non-Partisan Association Party and in 1999 tried to run as a Liberal in the provincial seat of Vancouver-Fraserview.

He ran as an independent to remain on the park board for a second term and, despite receiving the highest number of votes for any non-affiliated candidate, he lost his seat.

Dr. Yong, who is married and has four children, filed for bankruptcy in the 1980s after a shopping centre development, in which he had convinced patients to invest, failed.

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