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The briefing took place just a few days after David Eby began his new job as British Columbia’s attorney general – and it began a warning.
“Get ready,” Eby remembers being told by casino regulators in the western Canadian province. “I think we are going to blow your mind.”
What they showed him was footage of individuals wheeling suitcases stuffed with $20 bills into casinos. Others used hockey bags to haul the cash. Surveillance videos then showed the individuals trading in the cash for casino chips.
It was Eby’s first glimpse of what some in the global intelligence community had
