B.C.’s anti-gang agency says it has reached a milestone in a years-long investigation now that a woman who admitted to money laundering is set to be sentenced.

The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says Alexandra Joie Chow of Richmond, B.C., pleaded guilty in February to one count of money laundering and is scheduled to be sentenced in November.

Assistant Commissioner Manny Mann, the agency’s chief officer, says it’s the first time in over a decade that someone has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced for a “stand-alone money laundering offence.”

The agency launched an investigation in 2019 into suspected loan-sharking and money laundering.

A Richmond woman and a Vancouver man were arrested in 2021 after police searched properties in Richmond and Burnaby, with charges against Ch

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