Summary of Sam Cooper's Wilful Blindness

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#1 Alderson, the anti-money-laundering director for the B. C. Lottery Corp, was about to meet with Calvin Chrustie, a senior officer with Canada’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit. Chrustie had sent Alderson a cryptic text about a big deal.

#2 Alderson was hired to help clean up the Lottery Corp. in 2015. He knew that China’s economy had to be considered in order to grasp what was happening in B. C. Lottery Corp. casinos.

#3 The GPEB summit presented a summary of research that exposed the immense amounts of money flowing out of China and into foreign countries, with a large portion of it going to the ruling Communist Party members and their families. But the RCMP and GPEB investigators were still suspicious how the Chinese high rollers were able to carry so much cash into the casinos every day.

#4 The Chinese community in Canada had established underground banking methods to facilitate trade, and this wasn’t a bad thing. As ridiculous as it may have sounded, the RCMP had known for years that wealthy visitors from China were moving loads of cash around Vancouver.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822520936

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Alderson, the anti-money-laundering director for the B. C. Lottery Corp, was about to meet with Calvin Chrustie, a senior officer with Canada’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit. Chrustie had sent Alderson a cryptic text about a big deal.

#2

Alderson was hired to help clean up the Lottery Corp. in 2015. He knew that China’s economy had to be considered in order to grasp what was happening in B. C. Lottery Corp. casinos.

#3

The GPEB summit presented a summary of research that exposed the immense amounts of money flowing out of China and into foreign countries, with a large portion of it going to the ruling Communist Party members and their families. But the RCMP and GPEB investigators were still suspicious how the Chinese high rollers were able to carry so much cash into the casinos every day.

#4

The Chinese community in Canada had established underground banking methods to facilitate trade, and this wasn’t a bad thing. As ridiculous as it may have sounded, the RCMP had known for years that wealthy visitors from China were moving loads of cash around Vancouver.

#5

The RCMP had a board meeting with Alderson, and presented him with their Silver file, which was two major organized crime investigations that were running parallel. They seemed to be converging on links to B. C. casinos.

#6

The job of a casino anti-money-laundering director is to identify and reject suspicious cash. But to turn away a VIP player carrying $500,000 in cash. That would have huge revenue impacts for the casinos, the Lottery Corp. , and British Columbia’s government.

#7

Alderson was also following my reporting for the Vancouver Province, and he came across a story I had written about Chinese police running secret operations in B. C. to hunt allegedly corrupt officials and laundered money.

#8

Alderson was promoted to anti-money-laundering director of the Lottery Corp. in 2015. He had always wanted to be a cop, but instead he took a job with the Lottery Corp. interviewing prize winners. When he decided to settle in British Columbia and marry a woman from Richmond, he saw the flags again, but even bigger now.

#9

In Australia, police had learned about flight of capital from China and corrupt officials. But in Canada and Australia, the governments had different attitudes towards excessive offshore wealth.

#10

Chrustie’s philosophy did not always mesh with upper management in the RCMP. Some viewed him as too aggressive and blunt, but he was also seen as a person who would take the most challenging files without considering political calculations.

#11

Alderson would look at the internal I-Trak reports filed by casino staff, records that logged suspicious transactions and associations. One case that stood out was a B. C. politician, Richard Ching Chang, a man from Taiwan elected as