Province promising action on damning report’s money laundering recommendations

VANCOUVER — “Criminal money laundering is happening in B.C.’s casinos and it has to stop.”

Those were the words of B.C. Attorney General David Eby this morning following the release of a report that delved into the issue of money laundering in B.C. casinos.

During a news conference in Vancouver he said money laundering has been a problem for the last decade-and-a-half and escalated after 2010.

Eby noted the illegal activity is linked to the opioid crisis, to the real estate market and to Vancouver’s unaffordable housing market.