B.C.’s Attorney General is choosing his words carefully in responding to reports Ontario’s gaming regulator is investigating possible links between organized crime and some casino staff.

Dave Eby was asked in light of these latest concerns if he is worried casino employees or anyone else in positions of power could have been bribed or bought off.

“Everyone that works in gaming in British Columbia is subject to review by the Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch. Although I cannot talk about any individual cases it was Ontario’s regulator who is coming to the Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch asking for information that they had about gaming workers and gathering information from our regulator. So if our regulator has the information people are going to lose their gaming licence if they are engaging in conduct that is inappropriate.”

Eby says this is not just a concern specific to casinos noting the slow pace of approving provincial cannabis licenses is due in part to extensive background checks to weed out anyone linked to organized crime.

He says his government has also made changes requiring gamblers to provide a guaranteed source of funds to buy 10-thousand-dollars or more worth of chips.