A 37-year-old B.C. woman has been sentenced to 18 months in a provincial correctional centre for money laundering.

Alexandra Joie Chow was first arrested four years ago, following an investigation into alleged loan-sharking and money laundering activities that involved more than $828,000 in Canadian currency in total.

Chow, who pleaded guilty, is the first person to be sentenced for stand-alone money laundering since the Cullen Commission in 2022, which was a provincial inquiry examining money laundering through B.C. casinos and real estate.

Chow laundered half a million dollars of what she understood was from illicit drugs and transferred it into a clean bank draft, according to details presented in court.

She then took a five per cent commission.

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