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by Mike Caswell

Mountainstar Gold Inc.'s president, Brent Johnson, is a defendant in a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by a Vancouver woman who claims that Mr. Johnson and two other men owe her $250,000. She says that she provided $50,000 to cover costs at a gold mine in Chile. In return, she was to receive five times her investment in a "very short time frame," she claims.

The allegations are contained in a notice of claim filed at the Vancouver courthouse on Aug. 4, 2017, by a 60-year-old woman named Audrey Gilmour. The defendants are Mr. Johnson and two other men: David Nolan Goguen and Jorge Lopehandia. According to the suit, Mr. Goguen approached Ms. Gilmour in August, 2015, and sought $50,000. The money was purportedly to cover costs at a gold mine in Chile that Mr. Lopehandia held. (Mr. Lopehandia's claim to that mine is a lengthy story of its own.)

As an incentive to provide the money, Mr. Goguen allegedly offered Ms. Gilmour the return of five times her investment. This was to consist of a return amounting to three times her investment from Mr. Johnson and two times her investment from Mr. Goguen, according to the suit. The return was to be "in a very short time frame," the suit states. Ms. Gilmour says that she deposited the $50,000 to Mr. Lopehandia's Canada Trust account on Aug. 4, 2015.

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