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He’s one of the most knowledgeable casino insiders in British Columbia, a whistleblower who sounded the alarm on rampant money laundering infecting the industry and the province.

And now that the B.C. government has launched a public inquiry into all that dirty loot, Ross Alderson is ready to reveal what he knows.

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“Bring it on,” said Alderson, the former director of anti-money laundering at the B.C. Lottery Corporation.

“I’m really pleased this inquiry has been called. I want to testify and I know many others do, too. The public deserves to know what happened.”

Alderson, 48, is a former police officer who started working at the lottery corporation in 2008 as an investigator. He later became manager of investigations for online gambling, and then head of anti-money laundering for the Crown corporation in 2015.

That brought him frequently to the River Rock Casino in Richmond, the biggest in B.C., where he was stunned by the large volumes of cash transactions he witnessed.