Li had arrived in a taxi alone and then delivered the cash to Gao, the report says. Because she lost so much money, Li said, she started doing errands for “big bosses” from China who bet $100,000 per hand at River Rock’s baccarat tables. Li testified that she was hired at Edgewater in 2007 and that she developed a gambling addiction after she started playing high-stakes baccarat at River Rock Casino in Richmond. have linked to Jin, a Richmond currency exchange, and another alleged loan shark named Kwok Chung Tam. The Cullen Commission into money laundering heard Wednesday from former Vancouver Edgewater Casino worker Qi “Coco” Li, who admitted making numerous suspicious cash and chip drops for River Rock baccarat players whom the RCMP and Lottery Corp. A BC Lottery Corporation casino dealer, banned in 2015 for handling currency deliveries of up to $1 million at River Rock Casino for Chinese high rollers connected to an alleged transnational drug-trafficking organization, denied introducing one of those gamblers to loan sharking suspect Paul King Jin.
