Author of the article: Kevin King
Publishing date: Feb 24, 2021 • February 24, 2021 • 2 minute read • Winnipeg Police Inspector Max Waddell announces that a major inter-provincial drug network was dismantled recently during what they have called Project Gold Dust. During the 10-month long investigation the police were able to confiscate among other things; 17 kilograms of cocaine (which the dealers were calling BitCoin), 21lbs of cannabis, $2million in cash, $107,000 in bit-coin, along with several guns which were on display at the police headquarters during the media conference Wednesday morning. MIKE DEAL / POOL
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The Winnipeg Police Service seized a record amount of assets, including its first chunk of bitcoin, in taking down a high-level, interprovincial cocaine trafficking cell, it announced Wednesday.