Sex traffickers are using shell companies to launder illicit profits in Canada

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New research sheds light on how hundreds of potentially illicit massage parlours hide their money and the vulnerable people they prey on

Out of the 700 Canadian companies identified by the TRSS investigation, there were nine matches, showing the international scope of some of the operations and the lucrative nature of transnational crime.

down illicit massage parlours in the United States. While doing so, it found that most of those U.S. establishments are part of organized crime networks that include at least one other illicit massage business. One common technique involves the misuse of Canadian shell corporations to create a false appearance that criminal proceeds were derived from legitimate business sources. A shell corporation is a business that exists purely on paper because it lacks operations. Although shell companies can be established for valid purposes, such as to serve as takeover vehicles or to raise financing, these corporate entities are also a favourite tool of money launderers because they are vulnerable to abuse.

Different types of corporate entities can be used as shells. Limited partnerships, for instance, are a type of business structure that is especially appealing to financial criminals because they can be used to open bank accounts, facilitate business transactions, are But critics say there’s a key weakness because the provinces have not agreed to participate in that project. The database, which is scheduled to be operational later this year, will only include federally-incorporated companies, even though the vast majority of companies are incorporated in the provinces.

Other techniques employed by criminals include bulk cash smuggling across international borders and illicit money transfers that bypass the banking system entirely. Similar to a “hawala” or an informal IOU system, money value is transferred from business to business in China’s underground economy with no movement of funds through financial institutions, Mr. Benner said.

“With people isolating and spending more time at home, away from public view, the police’s ability to detect this type of crime could have been impacted,” Statscan wrote in a report published this past December.“If you think about the massage parlours, obviously that was disrupted during COVID.

 

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investigate Trudeaus racketeering!!!

So, Jeffrey Epstein’s Island is true after all? Sex trafficking is real? The Lolita Express transporting all those Elites back and forth? Sex Workers by the hundreds flown in to service the DAVOS Elites? Great reporting Canada! Keep it up!

Open Land Titles and Corporate data. Obvious that Canada is a push-over because of secrecy and corruption.

Brought to you via Roxham road. Canada is a 💩 show under this liberal cabal.

Trudeau is probably accepting money from them to turn a blind eye.

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