BC's underground economy likely worth $7 billion annually, similar to mining or tourism

The Silver International saga suggests BC's money-launderers, with turnover of billions a year, have little to fear from police. It's their customers they need to watch out for

Jian Jun Zhu and a bullet hole in the window of Manzo Itamae restaurant. (South China Morning Post)

Before a bullet crashed through the front window of Richmond’s Manzo Itamae restaurant in 2020 and killed him, Jian Jun Zhu was alleged to be one of BC’s biggest money-launderers, handling more than $80 million in one five-month period in 2015 and as much …