Illegal gaming unit killed in 2009 due to BCLC 'funding pressure'

B.C.’s illegal gambling task force was shut down in 2009 due to urgent “funding pressure” on the B.C. Lottery Corp., according to a confidential B.C. government memo obtained by Postmedia News.
The March 2016 memo for then finance minister Mike de Jong, is the first known document indicating the illegal gambling task force was disbanded by B.C. officials for financial reasons.
Also, the document suggests, in the aftermath of the unit’s closure, organized crime in B.C. has