RICHMOND, B.C. — Pity the commissioner overseeing the inquiry into this province’s problem with “dirty” money.
“I really am impressed when I see the turnout for such an onerous issue that’s a big black eye for the history of Canada,” he said. German told the Post this week that while inquiries can be costly, they can find fault, which his reports did not do. For now, the commission is still in an exploratory phase, seeking the public’s input to key questions: How is money laundering manifesting itself? What have been the consequences? And what are the solutions?
She suggested that prostitution out of massage parlours, nail salons and homes was likely linked to organized crime groups. Veteran realtor Lyn Terborg complained that until recently too many real estate transactions relied on an “honour system” and described the mandatory reporting of suspicious or large cash deals to FINTRAC a waste of time because of the “bureaucratic nightmare of incompetence” at the federal agency.
Our Liberals party of BC. I recall they didn’t think BC had a problem that police couldn’t handle.
Casinos were not unwitting in this laundering mess. Casinos know everything that goes on in their casinos at all times.
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