B.C.’s Attorney General has unveiled a portion of the phase two money laundering report underlining what he calls an alarming lack of federal policing resources.

Dave Eby says as part of his report Dr. Peter German asked the RCMP what resources it had tasked to deal with the mammoth problem of money laundering in B.C.

“And the answer is what is happening is apparently very little if anything.”

Even worse Peter German says what is in place is out-resourced and way undermanned.

“How many dedicated resourced do you have working on money laundering? The answer was 25 positions plus one civilian analyst. Question number two how many of them are staffed? 11. Met with the RCMP and question number three what are the 11 doing? I was told it is really only five due to training, illness, and various issues. Net result is no federal resources.”

Eby says he is demanding immediate urgent action from Ottawa.

“Given the scale of the crisis that we face that the resources in the [federal] budget should immediately come to British Columbia. The second is given that we know that the money launderers are already here, that they are already rich, they are already experts, and they are clearly better resourced we need to not start from scratch on this. We need for the people who come to British Columbia, the police officers who will come to British Columbia, to have experience. There should be an effort to recruit people with experience and expertise in this area.”

He says federal Organized Crime Reduction minister Bill Blair has an advanced copy of the report.

Eby says he doesn’t want to point fingers rather he is hoping the information will result in a significant shift in law enforcement attention to money laundering.