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2. What's this all about? Open the story to see the link charts and meeting photographs, this is all about network relationships, and the business and political connections between transnational organized crime, United Front leaders, Chinese consulate officials, and Canadian pols

3. What is the United Front and how does it relate to casinos and crime? Xi calls it a 'magic weapon' and the Chinese Communist Party protects its interests by mobilizing gang leaders and tycoons, most famously in Hong Kong. The UF co-opts influencers and associations, for CCP

4. This is what Canada's former ambassador to China, David Mulroney told me. “There is a very tight, incestuous relationship between organized crime in China and within diaspora communities, and the United Front,” Mulroney said.

5. “Co-opting criminal networks is one of the Party’s preferred tools for the infiltration of target organizations and communities for foreign interference operations.”

6. Mulroney knows all about the case of LAI Changxing, a famous gang kingpin and corruption boss in southern China who fled to Canada and started to spill the beans when he was caught up in a corruption probe. He said Chinese security officials had told him to go over to HK and

7. keep an eye on democracy advocates and Taiwanese networks. Lai, in Canada, is what I call the prototypical organized crime casino whale. That's another story. This story found links between what @chen_yonglin calls a "controlling level" United Front Work Dept. group in Canada

8. the CACA. For quite a while I have been researching meetings where CACA leaders show up at events with E-Pirate targets including Paul King Jin. This took on another level, when Jin's 'Warrior Fighting Dream' gym was targeted in an illegal casino and money laundering claim.

9. CACA leaders including chairman Yongtao Chen have supported events at the gym, which is run by Paul King Jin and directors in China. When this massive Markham alleged illegal casino bust happened, I learned that Yongtao Chen also has business and political ties with Wei WEI

10. the alleged mastermind of the Markham casino operation. Furthermore, sources say the Markham casino network is very linked with the BC casino networks. And national security investigators and intel experts in Canada are really starting to scrutinize these connections.

11. For a visual, I started with political connections and found a business relationship leading to Toronto hotel investments.

12. Scott McGregor, a former intelligence expert for the RCMP who also advised B.C.’s Attorney General David Eby on casino money laundering intelligence, raised the possibility that casino ML could be related to China's activity abroad. In other words, this could be way more,

13. complex, sophisticated, and strategic than almost anyone in Canada has considered, thus far.
Trends in intelligence show that “utilizing transnational crime to move people and money, is an area that the United Front would be interested in,” McGregor said.

14. “Transnational organized crime includes having a centre of gravity in the host nation, so they can conduct threat financing or money laundering, and the activity we are seeing in Canada, touches on those things,” McGregor said.

15. And he and others with his professional experience, think the @CullenInquiryBC is confronted with something much larger than drug money laundering gangs.

16. “We are talking about international organizations, and their connections to nation states operating in Canada. So, it would be very difficult not to have those considerations scrutinized in the (Cullen Commission) Inquiry.”

17. That's it for now, the story has many photos and link charts, it's a lot to grasp. In a nutshell, criminal activity and political activity converges in some hostile nation states, and concern is increasing in Canadian intelligence about these networks active in Canada.

18. One more image. Here is the Prime Minister with a People's Liberation Army veteran identified as "Suspect 2" in RCMP documents that look into Paul King Jin and others allegedly involved in illegal casinos in BC.