Hells Angel, fraud artist, rocker dies from shooting
Ady Golic was gunned down on Burnaby street in August
A controversial rocker and Hells Angels associate convicted of stock fraud has died, three months after being shot in Burnaby, Postmedia News has learned.
Adis (Ady) Golic passed away Nov. 22 from injuries sustained in the targeted shooting. The 41-year-old was gunned down around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 22 in the 7700-block 12th Avenue.
Mounties described the shooter as a white man, dressed all in black, who fled in a dark-coloured vehicle with a roof rack.
“There was at least one other person, the driver, in the vehicle, which fled the area at a high rate of speed,” Sgt. Derek Thibodeau said in an August news release.
Witnesses said the victim was found in an alley beside a townhouse complex. It’s believed he was living in the area.
Cpl. Meghan Foster of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed this week the Golic case has been passed to IHIT and investigators are reviewing it.
Golic has crossed a number of people in his colourful past. In 2011, he was convicted in provincial court of running a boiler room operation and selling securities without being registered and filing a prospectus.
He claimed to be selling shares in a company called AD Capital, which was developing muffler technology that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 97 per cent. An expert testified at his trial that it was all bogus.
The prosecutor alleged Golic raised almost $600,000 illegally. An elderly couple, both retired teachers in their 80s, testified that Golic pressured them in their own home to invest tens of thousands of dollars.
Some of the money may have been used to produce the 2008 music video On The Highway, put out by Golic’s rock band Skard.
Featured in the video are two full-patch Hells Angels, including Golic’s friend and East End chapter president John Bryce. Both are cruising down a rural road on their Harleys with a police car following behind them.
In 2012, Golic was sentenced to 60 days in jail and ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution to the elderly couple.
In a similar case, he was charged with selling shares of another company, AC Energy Inc., without being registered and without filing a prospectus. He pleaded guilty in mid-trial and was fined $5,000.
In 2014, the B.C. Securities Commission imposed a seven-year ban on Golic buying or trading in securities or acting for any registered company as director, officer, promoter or consultant.
The commission noted that Golic had also been convicted of obstruction of justice and uttering threats after he threatened a witness.
Golic came to Canada from Bosnia as a 20-year-old in 1995 and settled in Burnaby.
He started his band Skard in 2001. Fans of the Skard and its frontman Golic were lamenting his death in tributes posted on Facebook, calling him a great musician and a kind man.