Money Laundering In Canada

• Money laundering in Ontario: Suspicious cash transactions spike after B.C. casino crackdown

  Experts believe casino money launderers have shifted from B.C. to Ontario.

  Canada

  Jan 29, 2020
  
• B.C. disbanded RCMP unit after report warned possible crime figure bought stake in casino

  Confidential records show police warned B.C.'s government an investor connected to Asian organized crime was allowed by a regulator to buy part of a B.C. casino.

  Canada

  Jan 15, 2020
  
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• Sources say RCMP opened file on Liberal MP whose firm facilitated real estate deals in B.C.

  Law enforcement sources say the RCMP has a file regarding Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido and allegations made by confidential police informants

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2019
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• B.C. casino regulator received complaint alleging BCLC management pressured to ‘allow dirty money’

  B.C.'s casino regulator received a complaint alleging B.C. Lottery Corp.'s management could have been pressured to allow dirty cash to enter casinos.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2019
• Countries must co-ordinate to reveal shell company owners, fight money laundering: U.K. MP

  "What you've got to try and do is make sure they can't move it without being spotted," said John Penrose, a U.K. MP and point person on anti-corruption.

  Canada

  Jun 2, 2019
• How Canada’s legal system helped an alleged Chinese gangster avoid deportation for decades

  How a convicted drug trafficker and alleged kingpin of a Chinese organized crime cartel managed to avoid deportation for three decades.

  Investigations

  May 29, 2019
• Toronto man arrested with $1M in cash may have ties to international money launderer. Now, he’s allegedly fled Canada

  North York currency exchange owner named Farzam Mehdizadeh was arrested in 2016 with more than $1 million in cash during a traffic stop. Now he has reportedly left the country.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2019
• As RCMP investigated casino money laundering, police distrust of B.C. government grew

  Documents show senior police were concerned about leaks in B.C.'s government when E-Pirate casino raids were compromised.

  Canada

  Feb 12, 2019
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• Not just B.C.: Most provinces in Canada fail to secure convictions in money-laundering cases

  Canada largely fails to successfully prosecute money launderers with almost three-quarters of people accused going free, Global News has found.

  Canada

  Feb 10, 2019
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• A B.C. money laundering public inquiry is backed by every demographic that was asked in this Ipsos poll

  Ask a person from almost any demographic across British Columbia, and they're likely to tell you the same thing: they support a public inquiry into allegations of money laundering at the province's casinos.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2019