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The RCMP alleges that evidence shows the Richmond business sent more than $300 million offshore, and laundered about $220 million in cash in B.C., in just one year.

International wire transfers connected to drug dealing were covered up with fake trade invoices from Chinese companies, and also showed connections to companies in Iran — sources with knowledge of the investigation say. Investigators believe these Iranian companies are involved in terrorist financing.

The Section 86 report — the name refers to part of the provincial Gaming Control Act — says that in February 2015, BCLC staff met with the RCMP’s federal serious and organized crime unit, to “lodge a complaint (about) cash drop-offs at casinos involving a male by the name of Paul ‘King’ Jin who was believed to be associated to organized crime.” Jin, 50, had first appeared on the radar of BCLC anti-money laundering staff in 2012, government documents say.

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In June and in July 2015, the Section 86 report says, BCLC’s director of anti-money laundering Ross Alderson met with RCMP’s federal serious and organized crime operations team, in order to “discuss the Jin file.”

In a July 2015 meeting, “Alderson was advised that (RCMP investigators) had now established a direct link from an ‘illegal cash’ facility which involved illicit funds being involved in drop-offs to casino patrons at River Rock Casino,” the Section 86 report says. “(RCMP) Inspector Cal Chrustie advised Alderson that their investigation had uncovered that potentially some of the funds at the cash house were linked to transnational drug trafficking and terrorist financing. No specific individuals other than Jin were named.” Neither Jin nor the cash house have been charged and the RCMP suspicions have not been proven.