The largest seizure ever of illicit drugs from a 'superlab' in B.C. has produced just one individual facing criminal charges; critics of the legal system have long argued Canadian police are handcuffed in prosecuting transnational criminal networks.
The top federal Mountie in B.C. says Canada’s justice system is not keeping up with increasingly sophisticated transnational criminal networks importing and exporting drugs and precursor chemicals through the province.
Teboul said the drugs were poised for export and the superlab in Falkland was tied to transnational organized crime networks, including suspected links to Mexican cartels. Chrustie referred to the 1991 precedent-setting case of Canada versus William B. Stinchcombe that has evolved to mean law enforcement must produce robust disclosure of anything that may remotely be relevant to a criminal prosecution.
But, said Teboul, “the burden of disclosure is extremely heavy on our investigators. So what you see in front of you is the result of a lot of good investigative work, but it also requires weeks, if not months, of continued work by our investigators to meet the standards of the Supreme Court of Canada case in Stinchcombe.”
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