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Exclusive: Canada needs U.S.-style racketeering laws, current organized crime laws failing, B.C. AG tells Feds | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/8122106/c… #Elxn44 #bcpoli @CullenInquiryBC #cndpoli

2. In his letter to Min. Bill Blair, AG David Eby stated “all reviews and information gathered to date by British Columbia strongly suggests there is urgent need for significant reforms,” including “a Canadian version of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.”

3. Police experts said Canada’s current organized crime provisions fail to address “actual” organized crime, leaving gang bosses immune from prosecution, while the nation’s justice system is outdated and overpowered by sophisticated transnational cartels.

4. And due to various impractical Canadian legal procedures, Eby wrote, organized crime prosecutions are often stymied by an “expanding criminal discovery process” that mostly benefits criminals.

5. Eby also asked Blair to reform Canada’s criminal money laundering and asset seizure laws, citing recent findings from the U.S. government and the international Financial Action Task Force that labelled Canada as a “major money laundering jurisdiction” with ineffective laws.

6. Eby told Liberal Public Safety Min. Bill Blair Canada’s current legal ineffectiveness against organized crime “cannot be allowed to continue if public confidence in our justice system is to be preserved.”

7. In his @CullenInquiryBC testimony, Calvin Chrustie said RCMP learned Triad networks in Vancouver were laundering massive sums and moving drug cash from Vancouver worldwide for Mexican, Colombian, Mid-East and Chinese TNOC cartels. Mexican cartels operating in Vancouver were ..

8. El Chapo Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel, the La Familia Cartel, the Los Zetas Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and the Knights Templar Guadalajara.

9. Chrustie said: “Currently, the laws are designed to catch small insects and allow the bumblebees to fly through the spider's web ... current complexities of transnational organized crime, coupled with our outdated legal framework in Canada, perpetuate this Nat Sec threat.”

10. Ken Yates, a former Toronto police detective and Canadian expert on Asian-based gangs associated with the E-Pirate suspect networks in Vancouver, said “RICO was hugely successful in dismantling La Cosa Nostra and Asian Gangs in New York."

11. The concern with lack of federal attention to money laundering isn't limited to BC, Eby told Blair:

12. Eby would also like to see the Feds make amendments to give @FINTRAC_Canada and provincial securities regulators some actual teeth to make ML unprofitable rather than just paper penalties

End: Former Mountie brass Peter German advised Eby current Canadian org crime law has completely failed in tackling real organized crime, a powerful argument for RICO-like laws in Canada.

PS: Eby said Blair has given him no indication whether the federal government will consider his recommendations, including a Canadian RICO-style Act and stronger criminal statutes for money laundering.