BC casinos hope more oversight means less money laundering

The Canadian province of British Columbia has unveiled new enforcement policies aimed at combatting rampant money laundering at local casinos.

On Tuesday, BC Attorney General David Eby released the first two interim recommendations of Peter German, a former RCMP deputy commissioner who was tasked in September with conducting a review of BC’s scandal-plagued casino industry.

The first recommendation is that BC’s gaming service providers (GSP) – the private operators to whom the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) farms out day-to-day management of its casinos – will have to complete Source of Funds Declarations for all cash deposits or bearer bonds of $10k or higher.

Two consecutive cash transactions by any one customer will prohibit the GSP from accepting further cash deposits from that customer unless the GSP can determine that the cash “is not of a suspicious or illegal nature.”