Incendiary Report<\/strong><\/h2>\nIn their denouement on Tuesday, lawyers for the federal government produced a confidential RCMP \u201cinvestigational planning report\u201d from 2012 that had not previously been presented.<\/p>\n
The document describes extensive undercover surveillance of casino high rollers and loan sharks at BC casinos from 2010 to 2012.<\/p>\n
The RCMP claimed Richmond\u2019s River Rock Casino and New Westminster\u2019s Starlight Casino \u201care a very significant source of\u00a0money-laundering\u00a0activity, using wealthy People\u2019s Republic of China gamblers as willing pawns in their activity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cTens of millions of dollars in large cash-transactions (many transactions well over $100,000, much of it in $20 bills) are funneled-through several of the larger casinos in B.C on an annual basis,\u201d it concluded. \u201cIntelligence has revealed that the origin of much of these funds are derived from criminal activity and are the Proceeds of Crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
British Columbia held the final hearing of its exhaustive investigation into money laundering in its casinos on Tuesday. Now, two years after it began and 198 witness testimonies later, commissioner Austin Cullen, a former BC Supreme Court judge, has until December 15 to deliver his findings. The commission was established after an explosive report by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":189501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Cullen Commission: BC Casino Dirty Money Hearing Wraps Up<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n