READ MORE: Alleged partnership of Canadian casino company with gambling tycoon could trigger new investigation casinos “unwittingly” became money laundries for organized crime. German has said that River Rock was the epicentre of money laundering connected to Chinese drug trafficking gangs, and B.C. casinos from Peter German, the former RCMP executive who filed an independent review into B.C. The response also cited positive findings about B.C. The response says “Great Canadian operates in strict compliance with all laws and regulations that apply to our industry.” “Additionally, we are not aware of any allegation pertaining to intentionally falsifying reporting on our part.” “To our knowledge, Great Canadian is not the subject of any police investigation, nor would we have reason to believe that we are under investigation by police,” a prepared response from the company says. And the board, is the decision making body.'Ĭampbell and Great Canadian CEO Rod Baker did not respond to interview requests for this story.

There was no evidence that the due diligence system for Great Canadian was there to discourage this activity. 'You can't just say one employee was a rotten apple. Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: But new details reported by Global News about the River Rock Casino money laundering probe provide 'even more evidence that an investigation is needed into Senator Campbell's business interests,' Conacher said Friday in an interview.

A response from the Officer to Conacher, says that Conacher’s complaint will be examined, but at this point there is not an investigation. Campbell’s role with Great Canadian, following a recent Global News investigation. Since June 2015, senator and former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell has been the Great Canadian board chair of a committee directly responsible for overseeing River Rock’s security and compliance.Įvents probed in the recent River Rock Casino money laundering investigation occurred under Campbell’s watch.ĭuff Conacher of Democracy Watch, a legal and ethics oversight group, has already called for a Senate Ethics Officer investigation into Sen. investigator that after River Rock Casino was asked to forward to a casino investigator important compliance documents regarding the $200,000 transaction, a crucial form was potentially “filled in after the fact and falsified.” casinos became ‘unwitting’ laundromats for dirty money

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