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Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver, British Columbia
Darren Scott Young, a former gaming inspector for Canada’s British Columbia Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch, faces 36 charges including accepting bribes and breach of trust for his alleged role in supplying fake credentials to illegal workers at Hastings Racecourse, according to CBC News Canada.
Young, 46, is accused of “falsifying information on licensing documents and substituting names and photos of illegal workers onto existing horse racing licenses,” as well as registering foreign nationals as owners in order to get around the requirement to produce a work permit for licensure as grooms on the backstretch.
In total, Young is suspected of paving the way for more than 30 illegal workers on the Hastings backstretch.
“It is common knowledge at the Hastings Racecourse that the horse trainers pay Young unknown sums of money to facilitate the fraudulent issuance of horse racing licenses to foreign nationals,” said an unnamed source in the court documents obtained by CBC. “Young has been getting kickbacks from trainers for a long time for getting people horse racing licenses.”
The investigation against Young began in October 2018 based on an anonymous tip, and Young is expected in court on May 26.
Read more at CBC News Canada.
