The Connections Between Drug Cash and Money Laundering

CNN's John D. Sutter broke a story in 2017 about the E-pired investigation into drug money laundering at Richmond's River Rock Casino. One gambler flown in from mainland China meets a gangster in a parking lot and walks in with $1 million, he says. No one stops them in the casino; they're able to launder that money into casino checks or exchange systematically their $20 bills for $100 bills,. That's just the first step of money laundering in what came to be known as Vancouver model. So I showed how this facilitates a loop of fentanyl precursors coming into Vancouver, BC from factories in China.