Page 16 - July Market Update

How CBC journalists

laundered $24K

at B.C. casinos

Журналисты CBC решили сами

протестировать систему и убедиться
насколько легко (или трудно), отмывать

...As an investigative We thought it might be ...Three of us — me,
producer working for difficult to persuade our national radio reporter
CBC News in Van- bosses at CBC here in Curt Petrovich, and
couver, I’d been read- B.C. to hand over thou- then-intern Teresa Tang
ing through a stack of sands of dollars of the — divied up the cash.
records documenting corporation's money to Reporter Eric Rankin
suspected criminal activ- run through the slots. waited for us outside.
ity at B.C. casinos. As I But it turned out our col- We figured if we gath-
was poring through these leagues at CBC Ontario Here’s how we’d do ered up enough of those
documents, our team of had been planning the it: Plug $20 bills into a voucher slips — like the
journalists decided we same thing there and slot machine. Just play criminals had in On-
should test the system had already received the a couple of rounds, and tario — the casino might
for ourselves. We decid- green light. then “change our minds” return our money in the
ed to go out with under- and cash out. form of a cheque.
cover cameras and see We got the OK to use
how easy it might be to $30,000 and try to laun- We knew that instead A casino cheque is good
launder money through der it through two B.C. of returning our money, for criminals, because
the slot machines. casinos. the slots would print off to the outside world it’s
a cash voucher. We’d presumed to be winnings
We had learned of a We quickly converted take those vouchers to and therefore legitimate
case in Ontario where $15,000 into cheques. the casino cashier to be
the RCMP had exposed All we had to do was redeemed for cash. READ MORE
criminals for doing this provide the cashier with
at the slots. our driver's licences.