Sunday, February 10, 2019

The Laundromat: W5 investigates money laundering in B.C. illegal cash real estate



It has been hard to grasp just how deep and wide the rot has been.

Court cases have collapsed, news conferences cancelled, and political leaders stonewalled in multiple attempts to inform the public of the magnitude of British Columbia’s problem with illegal gambling.

 Not that things haven’t been going on away from the public eye. For at least six years, someone who witnessed criminal behavior has been quietly co-operating with the RCMP and helping reporters ask the right questions.

In this week’s W5 investigation, he reveals his identity in public for the first time, hoping it will help all Canadians appreciate the scope of our country’s problem with organized crime and money laundering.

It’s a massive problem in Vancouver, but the city isn’t alone.

It is, at first, shocking to hear what is finally being brought to light. In the words of former RCMP Deputy Commissioner Peter German, who was hired by B.C.’s NDP government to probe the province’s private casinos, “The regulator wasn't regulating, the police weren't policing.”

Is it ever possible to know whether that was by design or willful ignorance? Calls are growing in B.C. for a full public inquiry into the billions of dirty dollars flowing across the Lower Mainland.

What our investigation also reveals for the first time, is how complex the RCMP case against an alleged illegal bank was. Dozens of officers working to build a legal case that might have set a precedent for how courts deal with evidence of money laundering, If only it hadn’t collapsed weeks before the trial was set to begin.

The Crown, according to W5 sources, inadvertently provided evidence to the defence which could have jeopardized a police informant. When that was revealed, Crown lawyers opted to stay the charges.

It took weeks for the RCMP to explain what had happened to B.C.’s Attorney General, David Eby, who was infuriated the country’s biggest money laundering investigation had gone nowhere.

It has never been fully appreciated how much money has been coming in from criminal organizations (from mostly drug sales), deposited in illegal banks which then provide gamblers the money to bet with, thereby "cleaning" the money.

But W5 has obtained surveillance video and accounting ledgers from one of those banks, and on any given day millions of dollars came in, and went out. They may be the images which finally convince lawmakers to look at why money laundering cases keep collapsing in Canada, and why no one is in jail for moving billions through our country.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

WATCH: Actors read gun control facts that don't fit liberal agenda. Their reactions are priceless



Austen Fletcher, a YouTuber known for his "man on the street" videos, released a new video on Friday showing actors cold reading firearm facts don't fit the liberal agenda.
And their reactions were priceless.

What were some of the facts they read?

  • "According to the CDC, there were roughly 38,000 gun deaths in 2016 — two-thirds of them were suicides."
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  • "There are over five times more murders by knives than by rifles."
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  • "The U.S. has the highest gun ownership in the world, but ranks 28th in gun murders. That's a rate of 2.97 deaths per 100,000 people."
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  • "Hand guns are responsible for more than 80 percent of total mass shootings."
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  • Between 1993 and 2003, gun ownership increased by 56 percent, while gun violence decreased by nearly half."
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  • "Since 1950, nearly all public mass shootings have occurred in 'gun free zones.'"
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  • "There is a clear correlation between higher firearm ownership and reducing police killings."
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  • "Switzerland, a nation of about 8 million, is armed with an estimated 2 million guns in circulation with limited gun legislation. Switzerland's overall gun homicide rate is practically zero."

How did the actors react to the facts?

"I just kind of blindly chose a side on the whole issue without really thinking about facts," one of the actors admitted after the reading.

"It's interesting to actually take the time and see what the facts say as opposed to what I personally feel," that actor added.

"I mean, I’m gonna be honest. For me, I don’t really, like, go to the main news sources ‘cause a lot of it’s always, like, pushed by an agenda, you know what I mean? So, to get the real facts, you always have to do more research," another said.

"I mean, it definitely makes me want to do more research about everything that's happening right now with gun violence," one actress added.

"Gun control does not really mean crime control," another actor said of what he learned.


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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Ghost immigrants: Paying for Canadian citizenship The Fifth Estate



Immigration consultant Sunny Wang orchestrated one of the largest immigration scams in Canadian history. The twist in this tale isn’t that the people were trying to sneak into the country; it’s that they were sneaking out, pretending to be Canadian residents while having no intention of living here.

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Canada fast-tracking asylum claims from Muslim countries



Already “overwhelmed by asylum claims from irregular migrants crossing the U.S. border, the Immigration and Refugee Board is fast-tracking” refugees from selected countries. Those countries are: “Afghanistan, Burundi, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela and Yemen.”

Over 26,000 illegals have crossed the border between 2017 and 2018, and only 1% of them have been removed. Most are Nigerians.

There is no accountability, and no assurances to Canadians from the Trudeau government about assimilation plans, vetting  procedures and potential security and safety issues — clearly the Canadian government has learned no lessons from the crisis in Europe.

“Ottawa begins fast-tracking asylum claims from selected countries,” by Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star, February 3, 2019:

    Overwhelmed by asylum claims from irregular migrants crossing the U.S. border, the Immigration and Refugee Board is fast-tracking “less complex” cases from selected countries.

    On Tuesday, refugee judges began assessing claims under what is known as a file-review process — meaning a decision is made based on submissions from claimants — without a hearing — and a short-hearing process, where there are few disputable issues.

    “These new instructions are examples of initiatives recently put in place to slow the growth of the inventory and wait times for claimants,” refugee board chairman Richard Wex told the Star. “By matching our efforts with the complexity of each claim, we are using our resources more effectively, which will result in more refugee claim decisions.”

    The latest statistics show the board has more than 73,000 outstanding claims and the wait time for a hearing now hovers at around 24 months. Many of the claims are from asylum seekers who came through the U.S.-Canada border since late 2015 after U.S. President Donald Trump came into the office with a mandate to crack down on illegal migrants.

    In December, the board started triaging the claims based on two newly created lists of countries and claims. In total, 25 refugee judges have been assigned to the new effort.

    To qualify for the file-review process, a claimant must be from one of 14 countries: Afghanistan, Burundi, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela and Yemen.

    However, not every claim from these countries will be automatically expedited.

    For instance, only those Saudi Arabian claims alleging persecution based on gender or religious sect can be assessed without a hearing. For asylum seekers from Libya, claims must involve corruption, extortion, kidnapping or threat of kidnapping by militias.

    Only some claims from 11 countries are recommended for short hearings: sexual orientation persecution in the Bahamas, Barbados, Iran, Russia, Rwanda and Venezuela; fleeing criminality and corruption in Nigeria, Peru, Saint Vincent and St. Lucia; and threats in Djibouti due to one’s political opinion and activism…..
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