A Toronto woman says she fears for her safety because she believes officers with Toronto police’s 22 Division leaked information from a statement she gave them to men involved in an underworld casino dispute in the Dominican Republic.

“I have learned of the involvement of several organized crime members, specifically the Mafia,” the woman said in a complaint filed with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario in June.

In her complaint, the woman said she learned someone at 22 Division in Etobicoke had released information about her statement when details of it appeared in a civil suit filed by two GTA businessmen against her boyfriend.

The businessmen are connected to the embattled Dream Casino in the Dominican Republic, according to court filings and media reports.

“At no time did I ever consent, verbally or otherwise, to the release of my identity, my statement, the police interview notes, or the videotape to anyone for any reason,” the woman said in her complaint to the privacy commissioner, adding she never divulged the same information to anyone else.

The Star has agreed not to identify the woman and others involved in the case because she fears for her safety.

In her complaint, she said she has been experiencing “physical and psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and fear” out of fear the men have serious organized crime connections.

Toronto police spokesperson Meaghan Gray said the force will defend itself against “unsubstantiated allegations.”

“As a result, we will not offer any specific comment,” said Gray, who said her comments were on behalf of Chief Mark Saunders and Det. Const. Marc Beausoleil, a 22 Division officer who is one of the targets of the woman’s complaint.

In her complaint, the woman said Beausoleil asked her to give a statement at 22 Division on Feb. 18, 2017.

She said she later saw details of that statement in the civil suit against her boyfriend.

In her complaint, she also said Beausoleil “repeatedly advised me to stay away” from her boyfriend “for my own safety” — something she says she then did, causing “personal anguish and depression” to both her and her boyfriend.

The woman said she was later alarmed to learn her complaint with the Privacy Commissioner had been referred back to 22 Division to investigate.

She said she filed her complaint on June 6, and on Oct. 2 was startled to get an email from the 22 Division unit complaints co-ordinator, Det. David Knowles.

“I have been assigned to investigate your complaint,” Knowles emailed. “I would like to discuss it with you at your earliest convenience. Please call me.”

The woman said in her complaint to the Privacy Commissioner that she fears for her safety because she saw a report on the CBC’s The Fifth Estate regarding an underworld dispute that’s underway in the GTA and Caribbean.

“I have become aware of the allegations of witness corruption, police corruption and judicial corruption,” she said. “I have also learned of violent actions taken towards witnesses, including intimidation, both in Canada and in the Dominican Republic.”

She said her information concerns the Dream Casino in the Dominican Republic, where security video showed Vito Rizzuto, former godfather of the Mafia in Montreal, getting a tour shortly before his death in December 2013, officially of natural causes.

Rizzuto maintained a home in an exclusive gated community in the Dominican Republic after he was released from a Colorado prison in October 2012 after serving time for his role in three contract killings.

The Dream Casino has been the centre of lawsuits, threats and allegations. According to local reports, the car of a lawyer who worked for the casino was firebombed on Dec. 1.

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Dream Casino lawyer Raphael Castro Mercedes was murdered in his Dominican home in August 2014.

The woman told the Star she totally opposes a 22 Division officer investigating her complaints against other 22 Division officers.

“For the interest of everyone involved, I decided it would be best that a lawyer handled the matter as I don’t want to say anything that would incriminate anyone else any further,” she said. “This is mostly due to the reason that this officer is from the same division as the officer(s) I made a complaint about.”