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1 Dec, 24 tweets, 7 min read
Secret tape transcripts released: Former BC Liberal minister and RCMP caused ‘tsunami’ of casino money laundering, inquiry hears | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/7493127/f…
1. Tweeting a few evidence exhibits for timeline context. Heed's talk with Pinnock occurred in 2009, Pinnock says. And Coleman and Wanamaker warned of 'horrific' drug-money laundering suspicions in 2010, GPEB boss testified. Here is a BCLC investigator note from 2014 to GCG.
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3. 2016. Some of these people got kudos in the German report. This BCLC investigator pretty confident the whale is using cash winnings, 'no Unusual Financial Transaction' or potential criminality (sec. 86) report 'required.' Really?
4. "I do not want (redacted) to be uncomfortable" when he brings his cash to deposit into his PGF 'whale' account, at River Rock Casino Resort, where BCLC investigator in 2014 warned Paul Jin's gang had set up in hotel rooms with casino chip service for whales, testimony alleged.
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6. 2017 September.
7. River Rock Casino VIP salon staff tries to 'fix' an alleged assault without police report. Nothing to see here, company lawyer said in response. I expect a fuller examination from @CullenInquiryBC
8. Mike Hiller, BCLC investigator and former RCMP expert on the Big Circle Boys transnational narco-cash laundering methods, notes non-reporting of suspicious transactions to his BCLC superiors, in 2012
9. JIN - T1 Loan Shark --
10. CEOs
11. Hiller alleges VP compliance constructed alternative theories to rationalize bulk cash
staff allegedly counselling how to avoid the forwarding of suspect transaction to BCLC and thus Fintrac, as this evidence from GPEB's Rob Barber reads.
THIS IS KEY: We have an inquiry of @CullenInquiryBC looking at what laws might be changed to avert the corruption we see in BC. The laws were already in place, and we have a Canadian Senator responsible for compliance of the company named by this GPEB investigator.
The issue is something like moral hazard, or the non-enforcement of existing laws, rules and regulations, in other words, no consequences for 'bending' rules at @CullenInquiryBC put it. The only way to deal with that is to show willingness to put people in jail and pull licenses.
Whale occupation: UBC Engineering student
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1. I’ll be talking to @CKNW today. This is the bottom line Canadians must understand. By 2010 to 2012, senior investigators in the RCMP, B.C. Gaming enforcement branch, and @BCLC warned massive drug money laundering by China based gangs was using BC casinos and ‘VIPs’ to transfer
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Former senior B.C. official says he warned then-minister Rich Coleman of suspected drug money laundering in B.C. casinos | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/7459165/f…
“He sat across from me, and Mr. Coleman opened the conversation, and said, ‘What about this money laundering?'” Vander Graaf recalled.
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Commission grilling Gord Friesen about BCLC accepting frequent 200k cash buyins in $20s, and transactions up to 800k in 20s under his watch at BCLC. Friesen is a former drug unit officer.
Did you think it was proceeds of crime?
"Some well could have been, yes."
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I'll be following @CullenInquiryBC again today. Mini-thread, this story was one that convinced the NDP to call an Inquiry - .Former B.C. casino supervisor blows whistle on when Macau-style money laundering may have exploded | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/5215614/m…
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3. The Big Circle Boys really flooded in when bet limits were raised, Labine said. And the witnesses agree. Raise the bets and the pool of loan sharks grew, and grew and grew. We have also heard hints already, of something Labine alleged. Casino staff meeting with gangsters.
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