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Former BC Liberal minister and RCMP caused ‘tsunami’ of casino money laundering, inquiry hears
Former British Columbia gaming minister Rich Coleman and senior Mounties “caused this tsunami to take place in casinos,” a former solicitor-general said in 2018, according to a transcript released Monday during a public inquiry into money laundering. And in the transcript of the secretly recorded conversation between former solicitor-general Kash Heed and former RCMP officer Fred Pinnock, both men referred to former RCMP leaders in the province as “mafia”-like operators. They also discussed broader issues in the national force, such as lack of accountability for “sexual harassment,” according to the transcript. The Cullen Commission has already heard testimony about three recorded conversations in 2018 between Heed and Pinnock, who is