Almost 30 organized crime groups have “influence or access within Canadian public sector agencies or departments primarily at the local or regional levels,” according to a federal report.
The level of infiltration into the public sector is “unknown” for more than 400 other organized crime groups, according to the Public Report on Organized Crime in Canada for 2022, first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter.
This infiltration can take many forms. They include “bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, interfering with investigations and fixing trials to avoid convictions, and hiding links between the government, the justice system, and organized crime,” said the Organized Crime report from 2020, which describes the infiltration in more detail than the current report….