Vaughn Palmer: Inquiry for coming clean on money laundering has limits, challenges

Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:57:05 +0000

OPINION: The woman said she had worked hard all her life and her children were doing the same. Yet they couldn’t afford to buy homes where they lived, in Victoria. She offered this plausible equation: Money laundering drives up prices in Vancouver. Vancouverites cash in and move to Victoria, distorting the market here as well. “My kids can’t compete with that.”

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Government wants $200,000 found by B.C.'s anti-gang cops forfeited

Credit to Author: Kim Bolan| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:02:40 +0000

When B.C.’s anti-gang police stopped Kevin Phan in Vancouver in 2017, they found a cellphone that “had dozens of text messages consistent with drug trafficking.” So they seized his vehicle and later uncovered a secret compartment allegedly containing cocaine, heroin and ecstasy. At the time, Phan was one of the targets of a massive investigation […]

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Vaughn Palmer: Legal groundwork for money laundering inquiry starting to take shape

Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 05:15:28 +0000

OPINION: Given all the talk of the impact on money laundering on the housing market, I was surprised that he got no applications from the real estate sector. But those players could be called as witnesses, as could many officials and politicians, current and former

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