High roller accused of laundering $860MILLION through Australian casinos is arrested in Canada

An Australian ‘high roller’ gambler suspected of laundering $860 million through Australian casinos has been arrested in Canada after a surveillance operation.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say Dan Bui Shun Jin, 55, was temporarily residing at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia, when Canadian authorities conducted a joint operation and swooped.

‘Dan Bui Shun Jin is alleged to be an international money launderer with current active investigations on money laundering originating from Australia, United States, Macau and Singapore,’ the RCMP announced in a statement on Wednesday.

‘The United States have issued a warrant for Jin’s arrest for fraud over $C1.4 million ($A1.42 million) from the state of Nevada.

‘Jin’s alleged to be a ‘high roller’ suspected of laundering $C855 million through Australian casinos.’

The RCMP said Jin was arrested on May 25 after the surveillance operation at the River Rock Casino and $C75,000 was seized.

A search warrant executed on his hotel room in the casino ‘provided investigators with documents of Jin’s involvement in money laundering and his recent money movement scheme through Vancouver International Airport’, the RCMP said.

The RCMP said Jin was arrested on May 25 after the surveillance operation at the River Rock Casino and $C75,000 was seized (stock photo)

The Vancouver airport money movement scheme allegedly involved a female courier who brought $A25,000 cash from Las Vegas to Richmond.

‘The female was directed to pick up bulk cash from an unidentified male in a parking lot in Las Vegas, then tasked with delivering that bulk cash to Jin at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia,’ the RCMP said.

Jin appeared before a Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board detention review on Wednesday and was issued a deportation order.

He was ordered to be held in detention pending his removal.