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Record W2033090785 · doi:10.1108/13685200410809832

The incorporation and operation of criminally controlled companies in Canada

2003· article· en· W2033090785 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Money Laundering Control · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCrime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
Canadian institutionsSaint Mary's UniversitySt. Mary's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMoney launderingBusinessDrug traffickingFinanceAccountingCommerceCriminologySociology

Abstract

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Examines how financial proceeds of entrepreneurial crime are disbursed throughout Canada’s legitimate economy, focusing on the use of criminally controlled companies as money laundering vehicles. Outlines the design of the research, including data sources, sampling method, data collection, and limitations of the data; the main source of primary data are the proceeds of crime cases taken from the files of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Discusses the findings: drug trafficking is the largest single source of criminal proceeds. Moves on to the criminal companies involved: these have a long history in North America, and while they exist for various reasons, money laundering is one of their main functions. Details a case study, that of Gary Hendin, an Ontario lawyer who laundered around CDN12 million in drug money during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indicates the types of companies used and their methods for laundering money: nominees as owners or directors, a company hierarchy, fake loans or investments, selling a company, buying a company already owned by a criminal enterprise, fictitious business expenses and false invoices, fictitious salaries, and offering shares in a public company.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.538
Threshold uncertainty score0.592

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it