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Recommendations on how to combat money laundering in British Columbia and Canada have stacked up in the past year.

There are 122 recommendations generated by three independent reports and a fourth from a federal parliamentary committee. The recommendations are meant to eliminate regulatory gaps, bring transparency to property ownership, improve co-operation among agencies and enhance criminal investigations and prosecutions.

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Postmedia created a searchable database that will be updated periodically to track both governments’ progress on implementing the recommendations.

Many of these issues were raised in a series of Postmedia investigations since 2017 that found potentially millions of dollars were being laundered through Lower Mainland casinos and though real estate — and criminal prosecutions were rare and difficult.

The B.C. NDP government, led by Premier John Horgan, has largely endorsed the wide-ranging recommendations, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has endorsed some key recommendations and pledged tens of millions of dollars in the next five years to tackle money laundering.