‘Dirty money’ is destroying Vancouver’s civic fabric—and causing lasting damage
Добавлено: 08 июл 2018, 10:35
In a scathing 247-page report released in late June, former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German set out in grisly detail the corrupt and seedy workings of the “Vancouver model,” as the lucrative pathology came to be known during the years Christy Clark’s Liberals were in office in Victoria. The proceeds of international crime, in hockey bags filled with bricks of fentanyl-tainted $20 bills, were laundered through casinos Victoria was pretending to regulate. The returns were then routinely sunk into shadowy real estate investments, then reinvested back into crime again. Round and round it went.
German’s report, aptly titled “Dirty Money,” is just the first half of the assignment British Columbia NDP Attorney General David Eby handed him. German’s next phase will delve into the impact of all that dirty money sloshing around Metro Vancouver’s real estate and property development industry.
In releasing German’s report, Eby said Clark’s Liberals simply “turned a blind eye” to the squalid goings-on in the casinos. His assessment was far too charitable. In 2009, the provincial Integrated Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team was disbanded after filing a threat assessment asking for expanded powers to look into money laundering by organized-crime groups. Five years later, after raising the same alarm, the senior director of investigations for B.C.’s Gaming and Policy Enforcement Branch was fired without cause. His unit was broken up, its members reassigned.
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/dirty-m ... ng-damage/
German’s report, aptly titled “Dirty Money,” is just the first half of the assignment British Columbia NDP Attorney General David Eby handed him. German’s next phase will delve into the impact of all that dirty money sloshing around Metro Vancouver’s real estate and property development industry.
In releasing German’s report, Eby said Clark’s Liberals simply “turned a blind eye” to the squalid goings-on in the casinos. His assessment was far too charitable. In 2009, the provincial Integrated Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team was disbanded after filing a threat assessment asking for expanded powers to look into money laundering by organized-crime groups. Five years later, after raising the same alarm, the senior director of investigations for B.C.’s Gaming and Policy Enforcement Branch was fired without cause. His unit was broken up, its members reassigned.
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/dirty-m ... ng-damage/
