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by DeBraid 1905 days ago
Clean money can buy financial assets like foreign stocks. Dirty money cannot.

> Canada is a great place to launder money because of our lack of ownership transparency ... criminals can park large amounts of illicit cash in real estate and hide the purchases behind numbered corporations or shell companies located in offshore tax havens.

> Canadian real estate has been “extensively exploited” by the problem of money laundering and all financial sectors need to fight against it.

~Half of all transaction fail basic AML/KYC compliance.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6608644/canadian-real-estate-abys...