News Analysis
British Columbia, a province that has struggled with gang-related illicit funds and organized crime, may finally be turning the corner in its torturous, decades-long struggle to make headway in containing money laundering.
“With the first sentencing in a decade in a B.C. money laundering case,” the province’s anti-gang agency, part of the RCMP, says it has reached “a major milestone in its ongoing efforts to combat organized crime and financial criminality.”
Alexandra Joie Chow, a 37-year-old woman from Richmond, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail “following a complex, multi-year investigation into a group involved in loan sharking and laundering the proceeds of crime,” the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia said in a Nov. 24 press release….