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VICTORIA — Documents that say money laundering in B.C. now reaches into the billions of dollars are startling to the province’s attorney general who says the figures have finally drawn the attention of the federal government.

David Eby said he’s shocked and frustrated because the higher dollar estimates appear to have been known by the federal government and the RCMP, but weren’t provided to the B.C. government.

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He said he recently spoke to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale about information gaps concerning cash being laundered in B.C. and he’ll be meeting next week with the federal minister of organized crime reduction, Bill Blair.

“I’ve been startled initially by the lack of response nationally to what appeared to me to be a very profound issue in B.C. that was of national concern,” Eby said.

Last June, former Mountie Peter German estimated money laundering in B.C. amounted to more than $100 million in his B.C. government-commissioned Dirty Money report into activities at provincial casinos.