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David Evey spoke to the House Finance Committee on Tuesday and focused in particular on the enormous proportion of financial crime and money laundering. According to him, casinos in British Columbia have been used to launder cash from criminal activities. Many "doubtful" transactions in and out of casinos can be considered indicative of this.  when these transfers reached $20 million, there was a transaction of about $5 million.

He admitted that not all suspicious transactions were proceeds of crime, but that the source of the money in them had not been clearly identified. The decline comes after Evie introduced several changes in January at a meeting with a federal commission in January this year, based on proposals made by lawyers and former deputy Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Peter, who appointed Germans to lead money laundering last year.

One of the most important steps taken in January this year was to restrict VIP players from buying chips with more than $10,000 a day in cash. The B.C. lottery company has introduced a temporary rule that requires more than $10,000 in transactions to be reported and casinos to know the source of the money. Punters are required to enter a source of more than $10,000 when buying chips or depositing them in casinos.

Previous reports of fraud in casinos across British Columbia concluded that there have been signs of money laundering over the years. According to Attorney General Evie, deliberately kept secret, some casino customers have made large deposits in their gaming accounts. And in many cases, these players didn't even buy chips in their names. The confidential report describes a case in which Riverlock Casino received $13.5 million .

The German-led investigation examines how questionable cash flows have flowed through B.C. casinos into other sectors of the real estate and local economy. Evie ends up with a significant portion of the money generated by drug trafficking and other illicit operations. And at some point, property prices in British Columbia cause inflation. Such cash flows spread to other sectors of the economy, such as tracking large retail purchases.

During an announcement at the Finance Committee on Tuesday, EB spoke about better enforcement of existing laws related to monitoring financial transactions. According to him, police and law enforcement agencies should have easier access to information collected and stored by the Canadian Centre for Financial Transactions and Report Analysis (FINTRAC).