From: The Star
The Financial Action Task Force warns “the legal profession in Canada is especially vulnerable to misuse for money laundering and terrorist financing risks”
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Canada “faces an important domestic and foreign money laundering threat” from criminal organizations that launder billions of dollars in this country.
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The main domestic sources of proceeds of crime, says FATF, “are fraud, corruption and bribery, counterfeiting and piracy, illicit drug trafficking, tobacco smuggling and trafficking, as well as tax evasion.” Criminals target Canada because we have an open and stable economy and “an accessible financial system” vulnerable to “significant foreign money laundering threats.”