Lincoln Caylor comments in a CBC investigative feature on how millions of dollars in suspected Russian crime proceeds flowed through Canadian banks and companies. The money is traced back to largest tax fraud in Russian history, a $227 million crime. Lincoln says the fact that money from a sophisticated tax fraud in Russia may have ended up in Canada, and so much documentation exists to support it, is "groundbreaking. Not a lot of people would have thought that Canada is such a safe haven for ill-gotten gains." Millions in suspected Russian crime proceeds flowed through Canadian banks, companies
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Lincoln Caylor on CBC News on Russian Money Laundering in Canada
May 10, 2017
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