1. I'll unpack a few points from this ongoing investigation by Global News into the Ortis case. The allegations against Ortis, from my investigation, are very international in scope, and could not be more relevant to the work of @CullenInquiryBC
2. If you have the impression that Ottawa has been asleep at the wheel with issues of transnational drug cartels using Canadian cities as giant money laundering vehicles, that would be partly correct, in my years of expertise. But the Ortis case alleges something else going on.
3. What my investigation shows, is the case against Cameron Ortis -- who was one of the most influential leaders in RCMP and top intel official -- is he was allegedly corrupt and compromised a Five Eyes probe of a global kingpin money launderer.
4. In order to understand the case, it can't be stressed enough how important the Altaf Khanani money laundering organization is to drug trafficking and terrorist attacks worldwide, according to the DEA.
5. Based on my investigation of the case against Ortis -- so far -- the allegations that Ortis sought to profit by selling Five Eyes and RCMP operations plans to Khanani's network including a Toronto currency trading network, are most serious. Khanani worked for Hezbollah, a ...
6. foreign terrorist organization that is involved in drug trafficking and money laundering, and according to the DEA, has significant operations in Canadian cities. Khanani laundered money for and financed Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and many other terror groups. Khanani's network
7. of currency traders in Canada, allegedly launder drug cash for international drug cartels, including Chinese transnational cartels, Mexican and Colombian, Mid-East cartels. Khanani would launder money for anyone that was big enough, is what the DEA investigation found.
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2. Several former Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials interviewed by Global News said that CanSino’s Canadian-educated scientists were likely seen as potential assets by Chinese Communist Party information collection networks.
3. And one of the Canadian security consultants, said the agency responsible for the CanSino collaboration— the National Research Council (NRC) — should have seen red flags surrounding a CanSino partnership.
Secret tape transcripts released: Former BC Liberal minister and RCMP caused ‘tsunami’ of casino money laundering, inquiry hears | Globalnews.caglobalnews.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.
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
2. and convert warehoused $20 bills, making the cash piles vanish into casino vaults, with the wealth ultimately banked back in China, through repayments from VIPs to the lenders and collectors — loan sharks. Many of the VIPs were loan shark gang bosses themselves.
3. The evidence led so far, is that everyone with power over gaming in BC casinos, up to and including minister Rich Coleman and his deputy ministers, was warned, knew, and allowed it to continue. This evidence has been challenged.
“He sat across from me, and Mr. Coleman opened the conversation, and said, ‘What about this money laundering?'” Vander Graaf recalled.
“And I said, ‘They are bringing it in, in $10,000 bundles.’
He says, ‘I know lot’s of people with $10,000 in their pocket.’ And I said, ‘If it’s in $20 bills with elastic bands on both ends, you better check your friends out.'”
1. “We have had some recent files where we have patrons buy in for $49,960.00 and $49,980 in $20s and we have found out through investigation (that) River Rock are not reporting these as suspicious,” Alderson’s email said.
2. “(We) feel it’s too much of a coincidence and the players must have been informed.” But Alderson’s boss didn’t want to investigate whether River Rock was helping high rollers skirt laws meant to trigger suspicious reports to @FINTRAC_Canada
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."
"I didn't have the authority to take action. I observed and reported." Friesen says that Mike Hiller told him that BC casinos could be facilitating money laundering, with loan sharks providing bulk cash to VIPs, and the VIPS paying back the cash in other forms then cash. But