BC Casinos

• Cullen Commission report: BCLC boss warned execs of no bonuses if casino revenue targets not met

  Buried in the final report is the possibility that the incentive of individual compensation at BCLC was one of many factors that may have deterred casino investigators.

  Crime

  Jun 17, 2022
  
• ‘People need to go to jail’: B.C. whistleblowers let down by final report into money laundering

  The Cullen Commission's report, published Wednesday, delved into cash from organized crime being filtered through the province's casinos, real estate industry and elsewhere.

  Crime

  Jun 17, 2022
  
• Advertisement
• Federal ‘failures’ on money laundering prompt B.C. inquiry to call for provincial watchdog

  The Cullen Commission's final report following a wide-ranging public inquiry says the failures of the RCMP and the federal agency Fintrac allowed money laundering in B.C. to grow.

  Crime

  Jun 15, 2022
• Advertisement
• Money-laundering inquiry must judge whether corruption reached top of B.C. government

  Justice Austin Cullen has heard from 198 witnesses in hundreds of hours of hearings that produced bombshell testimony and 70,000 pages of evidence.

  Crime

  Dec 23, 2021
• B.C. government waited 9 years to heed recommendations to reject drug cash in casinos, inquiry hears

  Lawyers representing the federal and B.C. governments argued a stunning set of facts and assertions in closing arguments for the province’s money laundering inquiry on Friday.

  Crime

  Oct 15, 2021
• B.C. casinos start laying out details for COVID-19 reopening plan

  When the casino facilities reopen around the province, the BCLC said a number of changes will be in place to stop the spread of COVID-19 and keep visitors and staff safe.

  Health

  May 26, 2021
• Ex-B.C. gaming minister denies turning blind eye to casino crime and influencing RCMP

  Rich Coleman, former B.C. Liberal gaming minister, told the Cullen Commission Wednesday that he didn't turn a blind eye to warnings of suspected money laundering in B.C. casinos.

  Crime

  Apr 28, 2021
• Ex-B.C. premier Christy Clark says she wasn’t warned of ‘spike’ in money laundering until 2015

  Clark was the first of a number of senior B.C. politicians to testify at the public inquiry, with Mike de Jong, Rich Coleman and David Eby coming up next.

  Crime

  Apr 20, 2021
• Advertisement
• Banned casino dealer denies introducing high roller to gang suspect, B.C. inquiry hears

  The Cullen Commission heard from former Vancouver Edgewater Casino worker Qi "Coco" Li, who admitted making numerous suspicious cash and chip drops for River Rock baccarat players.

  Crime

  Mar 3, 2021
• Advertisement
• Real estate lawyers may have helped high rollers buy Vancouver homes like casino chips: inquiry

  An anti-money laundering specialist says his investigations suggested high rollers could have been buying homes through loan sharks in the same way they were buying chips.

  Crime

  Mar 2, 2021