A far more prevalent scheme involved criminals depositing piles of dirty cash \u2013 often drug money \u2013 with underground banking networks and receiving equivalent payments into Chinese bank accounts in return. The cash could then be loaned to Asian high-rollers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you read the [attorney general\u2019s] report, it says that [money laundering via casino checks] didn\u2019t happen a lot. That certainly did happen — some people laundered money that way, quite a lot of money in cheques — but it wasn\u2019t a systemic or wide pattern. So they\u2019ve, from my view, erected a bit of a straw-man and said this type of money laundering isn\u2019t occurring systematically.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On Monday, Eby said he was shocked to learn that, despite the negative headlines, the RCMP was doing \u201cnothing\u201d to investigate continued money laundering in the province.<\/p>\n
According to Global News<\/em>, due to weak laws and poor police leadership, there is little capacity to prosecute<\/a> international money launderers in Canadian courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British Columbia Lottery Corporation report has apparently cleared the River Rock Casino in Richmond of wide-scale money laundering, Global News reports, despite the dirty-cash scandal that has engulfed the Canadian province\u2019s casino sector over the past few years. A separate report commissioned by BC attorney general David Eby and published last year concluded the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":102650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,18943],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
BCLC Reports Exonerates River Rock Casino on Money Laundering<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n