"It's 100 percent about the money"

Unique features of BC's criminal underworld may help explain its devastating success and transnational scope

James Riach, seen here in a Manila courtroom as he receives a 30-year sentence on narcotics charges, has been associated with three different BC gangs. Still working from prison, he’s an example of the fluid loyalties and international ties of BC’s top traffickers.

During his years on Vancouver’s gang squad, veteran police officer Keiron McConnell met sc…