1. The report details jarring victimization. Children kidnapped at gunpoint over parents' $300,000 loan shark debts; murders, human trafficking from Asia to pay off gambling debts in Asia, women forced into prostitution connected to underground casinos in BC.
2. “Illegal and legal gaming share the same issues, such as loan-sharking, extortions, assaults, kidnappings and murders .. And illegal and legal gaming have been interlinked when, in some cases, casino staff have directed patrons to loan sharks or to common gaming houses.”
3. In an interview, Denis Meunier, former deputy director of Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog Fintrac, said the allegations of criminal connections and ownership in B.C. Lottery casinos are “explosive.”
4. “In my view, if (the criminal casino ownership allegations) were reported to anyone (in B.C. government and RCMP) and they were not further investigated, there is a breach," Meunier said.
5. Former Crown prosecutor @Garossino said “It’s not just that they did nothing, but they actively disbanded this unit. So it is as if that is an intervention in making the police stop, from looking at the corruption they wanted to probe.”
@Garossino @BCLC 7. @CullenInquiryBC which bank, which employee? 'In one case, in just one year a Vancouver bank employee bought chips with cash at four Metro Vancouver casinos, for a total of $4.9 million.' Which casino connected to Asian Org Crime? Who is the retired gov't employee?
@Garossino @BCLC @CullenInquiryBC 8. Pat Fogarty, a former deputy chief with B.C.’s Combined Forces anti-gang unit, who targeted the Big Circle Boys and Triad kingpins from Mainland China, Macau and Hong Kong that dominate casino money laundering in B.C., said “nothing in this report comes as a surprise to me.”
@Garossino @BCLC @CullenInquiryBC 9. Fogarty, said he believes that since the early 1990s, the governments of B.C. and Canada have turned a blind eye to massive casino money laundering and real estate money laundering in Vancouver, because the dirty money was boosting Canada’s economy @CullenInquiryBC
@Garossino @BCLC @CullenInquiryBC 10. “We were laughing at the hockey bags of cash coming in, asking ‘why isn’t the government doing something?’” Fogarty said. “In the grand scheme of things it was the police and the government that should have looked at the collective police information, the IIGET reports ...
@Garossino @BCLC @CullenInquiryBC 11. "the intelligence, to say this (B.C. Lottery Corp. casinos) is a mega-ground for organized crime to launder their money, period."
@Garossino @BCLC @CullenInquiryBC 12. And how do we address that? But they just didn’t do that. And the same thing happened in real estate. As long as people were making money, they didn’t report it," Pat Fogarty, (who targeted BCB and Water Room Triad kingpins involved in the reports many violent events, said.)
@Garossino @BCLC @CullenInquiryBC 13. Thanks for reading, there is much more to identify, and people who have corrupted Canada to be held accountable under Canada's laws, and in my view, have them repay financially the damage they've done to society, from their ill-gotten gains. End.
