Cullen Commission

• 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
  
• 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
  
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• B.C. grants Cullen Commission six more months to file money laundering report

  An inquiry commission has received a six-month extension to file its final report into money laundering in British Columbia.

  Crime

  Nov 26, 2021
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• International students and offshore banking flagged in Canadian real estate money laundering

  Documents obtained by Global News piece together the complex web in which funds found their way into Canadian investments, attracting the attention of regulators.

  Investigations

  Nov 25, 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
• 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
• Closing submissions due in B.C. money laundering probe

  Closing submissions in British Columbia's public inquiry into money laundering were set to begin Friday before the commission's final report and recommendations are due Dec. 15.

  Politics

  Oct 15, 2021
• 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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• Canada needs U.S.-style racketeering laws, current organized crime laws failing, B.C. AG tells Feds

  B.C. Attorney General David Eby, troubled by Canada’s inability to prosecute international drug cartels and vast money laundering operations, has urged federal public safety minister Bill Blair to institute the U.S.-style racketeering laws that are credited for dismantling New York City’s powerful Mafia families. And some Canadian experts on the transnational gangs active in Toronto...

  Investigations

  Aug 19, 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