BC Money Laundering

• Cash, gold bars and cars seized in money-laundering, drug crackdown in Surrey and White Rock

  Three people were arrested after search warrants were executed on Nov. 30 at two "associated" properties in the neighbouring cities, according to RCMP.

  Crime

  Dec 13, 2022
  
• 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
  
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• ‘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
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• Money laundering public inquiry report to be released Wednesday afternoon

  Commissioner Austin Cullen is expected to take questions Wednesday at noon, followed by Attorney General David Eby at 1:30 p.m.

  Canada

  Jun 15, 2022
• Government to review money laundering inquiry report before public release, says Eby

  Since spring 2020, the commission heard from about 200 witnesses over 130 days, including former B.C. premier Christy Clark and several former and current cabinet ministers.

  Politics

  Jun 3, 2022
• B.C. money laundering report granted extension until June 3 after COVID-19 delays

  Commissioner Austin Cullen says his team members have since recovered and are healthy and working on the report. Cullen himself did not contract COVID-19.

  Crime

  May 6, 2022
• 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. casinos used foreign high rollers as money-laundering ‘pawns,’ inquiry hears

  On the final days of the two-year Cullen Commission, federal government lawyers cited RCMP records to counter arguments made by lawyers for the owners of two B.C. casinos.

  Crime

  Oct 19, 2021
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• BC Lottery Corp. brass bowed to revenue pressure from casino managers, inquiry hears

  Ross Alderson, the lottery corporation's former director of anti-money laundering, was examined Thursday at B.C.’s Cullen Commission.

  Crime

  Sep 9, 2021
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• Former gaming minister agrees ‘unfair’ to cop who said ‘something stinky’ at casinos

  A former Liberal government gaming minister is expected to be the last witness in British Columbia's public inquiry into money laundering as testimony concludes today.

  Politics

  May 14, 2021