Two whistleblowers on money laundering say they’re disappointed with the findings of the inquiry into the crime’s pervasiveness and possible ties to corruption in British Columbia.
The Cullen Commission’s final report, published Wednesday, delved into cash from organized crime being filtered through the province’s casinos, real estate industry and elsewhere.
While it concluded the B.C. government, police and federal anti-money laundering agency didn’t do enough to stop the crime, the 1,800-page report did not detect evidence of corruption.
The commission identified “staggering” levels of money laundering, and what Cullen himself described as a “failure of will” to deal with it. “People need to go to jail for this,” Fred Pinnock, former commander of the RCMP’s illegal gaming taskforce, told Global News. “It’s been my hope that there would have been support for criminal investigations to result from this exercise.