River Rock Casino

• ‘You can’t park there’: Video shows SUV crashed into elevator lobby at B.C. casino

  Police are blaming human error — not alcohol or speed — for an accident in which a driver steered their SUV into an elevator lobby at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C.

  Canada

  Sep 27
  
• Lure of Chinese fame persists at Vancouver pageant

  The eight women lining up to take questions included a pediatrician, a legal assistant and a piano teacher.

  Entertainment

  Dec 17, 2022
  
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• 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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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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• 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
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• ‘Vancouver Model’ money laundering connects B.C., Las Vegas and Macau casinos, inquiry hears

  The Cullen Commission heard new details about the RCMP’s E-Pirate investigation into suspected drug-money laundering in BC Lottery Corporation casinos.

  Canada

  Mar 1, 2021