MONTREAL — Authorities have laid charges against 17 people allegedly involved in an extensive international money laundering network with ties to organized crime. At a news conference today, the RCMP said the network had cells in Montreal and Toronto that collected and laundered money from Montreal criminal groups. She called the investigation one of the most important of its kind in Canada and one of the rare money laundering probes that has led to gangsterism charges. “It is by depriving criminal groups of their money laundering networks that we will shake the very structure of organized crime,” she said. Seventeen people face charges including conspiracy, possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, gangsterism and laundering proceeds of crime.

Source: National Post February 12, 2019 12:15 UTC