Vancouver Model： Uncovering Chinese Organized Crime's Drug Cash #shorts
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the Vancouver model of drug money laundering and how it is being used by transnational organized crime and Chinese state actors. It s a complex system that involves massive amounts of drug cash being laundered through Vancouver's government casinos. The money is laundered back to China where it cycles back to the Chinese underworld.
Transcript
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no one could figure out or admit publicly how and so what i really broke the mold in is discovering
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the vancouver model and that's how um portions large portions of west canada's economy uh were
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being used by transnational organized crime and chinese state actors so how it works is massive
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amounts of drug cash were being walked in into bc government casinos especially in richmond a high
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Asian diaspora municipality, you know, right between Vancouver and the ocean, right by the
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Vancouver airport there, and literally tycoons. So we're talking billionaires, military figures,
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Chinese officials, you know, very, very ambitious gangsters were flying in from Macau and China.
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They had made a deal, you know, usually on encrypted Chinese WeChat, you know, apps or
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things like this. They'd made a deal with the local drug traffickers who had warehouses of fentanyl,
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methamphetamine, cocaine, you know, drug money collected from drug dealers across Western Canada
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who would drive that drug cash into, you know, Vancouver. It would be warehoused in what's
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called Chinese underground banks. The wealthy gambler flies in from China or Macau. He meets
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the gangster banker, you know, in a parking lot outside the casino, literally gets a duffel bag
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of $500,000 or more or $100,000, walks in the casino against any Canadian anti-money laundering
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checks and balances, is allowed to gamble. His money is laundered in that way and it cycles back
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to China where his source of wealth is. That money back in China, you know, there's a few steps here
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I could miss or go into greater detail, but in a nutshell, that money is going back to China,
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producing more fentanyl, which is coming back into North America and America. Don't get it wrong.