Rcmp Money Laundering

• As Canada’s home prices soared during COVID-19, real-estate money laundering audits fell 64%

  As nearly half a billion dollars in sales flooded the Canadian housing market last year, audits conducted by Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog plummeted during COVID-19.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2022
  
• 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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• Lotto Corp. staff were told not to intervene in suspicious casino transactions, B.C. inquiry hears

  Steve Beeksma, an anti-money laundering employee and former surveillance staffer, said he believes River Rock Casino managers complained about "aggressive" questioning of high rollers. 

  Crime

  Oct 26, 2020
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• Suspects in alleged Markham illegal casino mansion linked to B.C. casino suspects

  Alleged criminal activities in Richmond, B.C., and Markham, Ontario have come into focus in recent weeks.

  Investigations

  Oct 26, 2020
• Top executives leave roles at casino company at centre of B.C. money laundering inquiry

  The casino company at the centre of B.C. money laundering inquiry has made a big corporate shuffle.

  Canada

  Sep 26, 2019
• NDP promises new RCMP money laundering unit, transparent ownership registry

  Jagmeet Singh announced Wednesday the NDP would fund a dedicated RCMP anti-money laundering unit at a cost of $20 million

  Canada

  Sep 25, 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
• B.C. Premier John Horgan not yet ready to call a public inquiry into opioid crisis

  Inquiries 'tend to cost a lot of money and lead to a report that's a few inches thick that sits on a shelf,' B.C. Premier John Horgan says.

  Nov 30, 2018
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• David Eby won’t rule out public inquiry after collapse of casino money-laundering case

  "It is a disturbing signal that a prosecution of this magnitude collapses before going to trial," Eby said.

  Crime

  Nov 29, 2018