Former B.C. premier Christy Clark told a provincial inquiry Tuesday she wasn’t alerted by her government to a spike in suspicious cash entering casinos until 2015, despite the problem having reportedly been “apparent” by then for at least four years.

Clark told the Cullen Commission she was concerned B.C.’s money-laundering crisis was “apparently at an all-time high” when it came to her desk, but said the province believed they were seeing more reports of suspicious activity because the government had ordered better training for staff monitoring casinos…

The issue distorted the provincial economy, with links to organized crime, the ongoing opioid crisis and skyrocketing housing prices across the Lower Mainland.