Wilful BlindnessSam Cooper, Teng Biao, Charles Burton
Wilful Blindness
by Sam Cooper, Teng Biao, Charles Burton · first published 2021
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Investigative journalism tracing money laundering through Vancouver casinos and real estate, and its links to organized crime and Chinese Communist Party agents. Suits anyone curious about financial crime in Canada.
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If you're curious about the seedier underbelly of financial crime and money laundering through casinos and real-estate in Vancouver, Willful Blindness by Sam Cooper (https://www.amazon.ca/Wilful-Blindness-network-tycoons-infil...) is a pretty shocking expose. Be warned that the complicity of the British Columbia and Canadian governments is rage-inducing.
on “Books to read to understand financial crime” ↗Check out Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper about the Vancouver model of OC money laundering
on “A Chinese American gangster transformed money laundering for drug cartels” ↗Highly recommend Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper. Canada-focused, and an excellent bit of journalism. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57427971-wilful-blindnes...…
on “Why Is No One Asking SFB What Happened to the $3.3B He Borrowed?” ↗…open secret. Most of these crimes then rely on Canada's national industry - money laundering - to clean the money or move it out of the country. Anyone interested in the tip of the iceberg should read Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper. And that's relatively old. And mostly just the CCP's part. You still have a rich diaspora of organized crime operating in virtually every corner and geography of Canada, including First…
on “US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering” ↗> read Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper All Canadians should read it. It should be part of the high school curriculum.
on “US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering” ↗Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper provides endless evidence that the government is corrupted. “We investigated ourselves and found that we are not corrupt” is not a ringing endorsement. Money is power and in BC the criminal…
on “Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town” ↗Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper https://www.cbc.ca/books/wilful-blindness-1.6136088
on “Books to read to understand financial crime” ↗