By the time the Joint Illegal Gaming Investigation Team member had finished, Chandler, the president of the ATM Industry Association, told Commissioner Austin Cullen he needed a moment.
Paddon used the 2008 report to support her claim that criminals could stock white-label ATMs with drug money in order to launder it, and that the machines didn’t require users to have an official relationship with a bank. They could also be used to skirt financial-system safeguards, she said. The commission has heard plenty of hyperbole about money-laundering in casinos, about professionals such as accountants aiding and abetting criminals, and the incredible risk posed by lawyers’ trust accounts and their pesky privileged solicitor-client relationships.Was Paddon aware of any investigations or prosecutions that show this occurring and support the catastrophic-sounding numbers?
“It is impossible for a merchant to keep a second set of books,” he emphasized. “For me to then see a 2008 report from the RCMP with all this conjecture and innuendo and implication about billions of dollars, there is just some giant disconnect somewhere.”Article content continued
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