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Canada is apparently luring hundreds of mafiosi, kleptocrats, cartel chiefs and corrupt exiles to this country thanks to its failure to tackle money laundering.
Itâs seemingly one of the most financially secret countries in the world and a large part of the supposed cure â more intrusive and wider law-enforcement surveillance powers â will require a radical rethink of privacy rights.
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The panel commissioned by the Cullen inquiry into money laundering described the situation as akin to the frustration police felt when fettered from responding to a domestic abuse complaint because a manâs home was his castle.
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Consultant Peter German finished two days of online testimony on Tuesday at the B.C. inquiry into money laundering sure of one thing: everyone’s a critic.
Under interrogation by lawyers representing casinos, gaming executives and others, the former senior Mountie was forced to defend his opinions in two “dirty money” reports he authored for the provincial government.
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“I’m not a casino professional, and I’m first to admit that this was all new to me,” he said when his credentials were questioned.
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Police maintain they face a near-impossible task in Canada trying to combat dirty money investigating a case is complex, labour-intensive, time-consuming, hugely expensive, and the criminal legal process appears to conspire in favour of the unscrupulous.
It is a Gordian Knot facing the inquiry into money laundering.
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Consider the various steps investigators take and resources required when there is no crime scene, no bag of cocaine, no murder weapon, no apparent victim none of the usual elements that prove a crime has occurred.
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Testimony on gaming is coming to an end at the Inquiry into Money Laundering with the main accusation in tatters that B.C. casinos were well-oiled machines for cleaning Dirty Money.
At worst, they may have been money-pits for proceeds of crime from crooks who liked to gamble, or those who borrowed money from criminals both mostly losing the ill-gotten gains.
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Attorney-General David Eby’s drive against a so-called “Vancouver Model” of organized crime with tentacles linking casinos, China, fentanyl and nefarious sleight-of-hand is sputtering in the face of facts.