This week, Ontario's inspector general, Bonnie Lysick, released his annual report to the legislature. In the report, she recommended Ontario lottery and gaming companies redouble efforts to address money laundering attempts at casinos in the state. She reported that the number of suspicious transactions is relatively low, but varies from casino property to casino property.

To gather information, Mr. Lysyk hired and sent mystery shoppers for sting operations at four Ontario casinos in the Greater Toronto Area, Niagara Falls and Windsor. There they were tasked with testing each casino's anti-money laundering protocols. According to her, her ploy was a way to show how easy it would be to launder money at local game facilities.

The report said mystery shoppers tested how easy it was to launder money while on a mission and were able to get casino checks in large amounts of cash without checking the source of the funds. The Board of Audit and Inspection explained that mystery shoppers failed to perform their work successfully at two provincial casinos that interfered with security.

Ms Lisick did not provide the property's name, but said one of them correctly identified shady activities and declined a request for a check from a patron. It even issued an unauthorized intrusion order, which prohibited the customer from entering all game sites run by the company. However, other casinos were unable to adequately cope with suspicious play and check requests.

The Board of Audit and Inspection reported that shoppers were able to win casino checks worth more than C$3,000 on limited play and that there was no proof of winning at two of the four gaming facilities. The agent briefly began cashing in checks, starting with cash of C$5,000 to C$11,000 in both casinos, player table games and slots.

Following the release of the report, the Board of Audit and Inspection says OLG and the Ontario Alcohol and Gaming Commission must implement measures against all casino operators to deal with potential money laundering attempts. These requirements consist of requesting the customer to prove the source of the purchase funds for cash transactions worth CA$10,000 or more.

In response to these recommendations, OLG said it would work harder to comply with the anti-money laundering framework. Crown also agreed that money laundering risks need to be addressed continuously at offline facilities, and promised to work with casino operators to review additional check issuance rules.

The problem of money laundering in casinos is also well known in other Canadian states. British Columbia, for example, has been embroiled in a major money laundering controversy as organized crime groups in Asia use state casinos to launder money from crime. Drugs-Cash deal suspected, C$200 mln a year.

Recently, experts warned that Quebec casinos could still be targeted by criminals' money laundering attempts. This relates to a recent report that local organization Lotto Quebec has reported large cash transactions worth more than C$420 million in gaming properties to the country's anti-money laundering organization over the past few years.

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