A report into money laundering says organized crime groups with international connections used B-C casinos to funnel cash that fuelled the opioid crisis and the real-estate market as part of a scheme dubbed the Vancouver model. Attorney General David Eby tasked former R-C-M-P deputy commissioner Peter German to conduct a review last September after seeing surveillance videos of gamblers walking into a Vancouver-area casino with suitcases full of millions of dollars in $20 bills. Eby says the former Liberal government failed to take action on a serious problem and he has accepted 48 recommendations in the report, which calls for an independent police unit that specializes in criminal and regulatory investigations arising from B-C’s gaming industry. German says at least 100 million dollars in dirty money went through casinos in the Vancouver area, and he warned organized crime — primarily from Asia — will move to other sectors of the economy, including luxury vehicles and horse racing.