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British Columbia’s Attorney General David Eby told federal lawmakers that Canada’s anti-money laundering rules are ineffective at identifying and choking off illicit funds, CBC reported. More Canadian criminals are increasingly concealing illicit funds by purchasing luxury cars and boats following the government’s crackdown on laundering through casinos, Eby told Bloomberg in an interview. More Former Kazakh mayor Viktor Khrapunov and his son, Ilyas, may face fines for allegedly leaking court documents from a U.S. federal case in which Kazakh lender BTA Bank accused the pair of helping its ex-chairman, Mukhtar Ablyazov, launder $4 billion in stolen funds, Bloomberg said. More...