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This just in, from Bob Mackin at the Breaker:
A 2016 report to British Columbia’s Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch said gamblers from China used underground banks to bring large volumes of potentially dirty money to play at River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond.
The anti-money laundering report was commissioned by the previous BC Liberal government and dated July 26, 2016, but not released until Sept. 22 by the NDP government.
MNP was hired in September 2015 after the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch compiled a document that identified $13.5 million in $20 bills were accepted at River Rock in July 2015. That is 675,000 $20 bills.
Information provided to MNP indicated that unsourced cash from unknown persons or persons believed to be connected to illicit activity “was dropped off at the casino or just off casino property for patrons at unusual times, generally late at night.”...
Gosh.
Why wasn't the report released last year (i.e. before the election)?
And, perhaps more to the point why, exactly, did the then minister responsible, Mr. Rich Coleman, disband the 'Integrated Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team', whose job it was to root this kind of stuff out, back in, wait for it...
...2009.
Hmmmmm....
Is it possible that the fine folks then running, and running with, the good ship GordCo, circa 2009, were clearing the decks for a gigantic expansion of the Casino Industrial Complex at the time that was tied to the stitching together of a $500 million dollar (plus) bit of flying magic carpet?
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This is huge! I hope Eby follows through on this.
Kim--
Me too.
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china syndrome ...not just a Fonda movie?
Fintrac fail?Call in the RCMP?
Following on from Anon. 304 pm.
Surely this must be something the RCMP organized crime/gang unit should be looking at, both for the actual financial transactions and holding back the report. Also should international policing agencies be on this.?
China
coin
Canada
casino
condo
repeat?
Keith and Anon-2-Above--
Well....
One might wonder why the BCL gov't didn't go right to the Horsemen in the first place.
Put another way, why did they see fit to commission a 'report' that they could then subsequently bury through the entire election cycle?
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read the first para. and went, and this is a surprise. It has been known for years that gangs can "clean" their money via the casinos and were. The B.C. Lieberals method of dealing with it was to disband the gang unit and we know how that turned out.
Casinos in B.C. are for laundering money. The provincial government has known about it and for their own reasons didn't do anything about it. makes me wonder who was attending all those $10K to $25K soirees and what they got for their money. You do have to wonder why the government didn't do more to deal with the "washing of money" at casinos years ago. Some one was making money.
Mackin is covering it but one wonders if the MSM will cover it.
eaf--
MoCo has picked it up.
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With such large sums of money involved and laundered, is it not conceivable that a direct link to the ability to purchase Vancouver real estate at inflated prices and contribution to the fentanyl drug problem was allowed to develop and fester. Or was it too difficult for the Liberals to connect the dots. Or is it more likely, they erased the dots themselves so that no connection was possible.
Anon-Above--
Not sure about the latter, but with respect to the former there has been a bit of foreshadow chatter by Sam Cooper about this, kinda/sorta/maybe, on the Twittmachine.
He says he has a piece coming...
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From the link to CBC: "The report prepared by MNP LLP found approximately $13.5 million in $20 bills were accepted at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond during July 2015. (CBC)"
MNP LLP donated to the BC Liberals up until April 29, 2017 Follow the Money
Interesting how the donations follow the leader...
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The best day of my life will be the day I see Coleman in Jail
There must be some large off shore bank accounts owned by certain high profile people, why else would it be allowed to happen.
Bob
Update, Saturday...
Sam Cooper's piece is out in the Postmedia prints.
It's OK, but doesn't add much to Bob Mackin's original report and it doesn't go anywhere near the willful actions taken by the previous regime that helped ensure that this type of thing would go unchecked.
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The day I lost all respect for the RCMP and govt.is the one the investigator stood on the steps of our legislature and said "organized crime has reached the highest levels of the B.C government" and not another peep was ever heard about it...
Money laundering in BC Casinos was Gordon Campbell's way of getting a a cut of the action.
Campbell was and still is a "percentage man."
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