Wilful Blindness

How a Network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West

Sam Cooper author Professor Teng Biao editor Journalist Terry Glavin editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Optimum Publishing International

Published:18th May '21

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Wilful Blindness cover

The Number 1 best seller, 2nd Edition

This newly updated book features 2 new Chapters of content and insights about the infiltration of China, Russia and Iranian agents who have infiltrated our democracies throughout the free world. Politicians and business elites including former Ambassadors to Canada, may have unwittingly helped criminal enterprises and Chinese agents secure a hold in the West. From the UFW to the Minisitry of State Security(MSS) and Organized Crime bosses, Cooper takes readers on a wild ride in the shadows of the underworld and yet the agents of the CCP are hiding in plain site.

Soon after Wilful Blindness was published, I learned the book was having an impact in Beijing. I was contacted by Canadian intelligence and informed that Chinese espionage assets in Canada had been tasked with collecting information on me. Beijing wanted to know how the public was reacting to my book, and whether it could damage the Chinese Communist Party.

It was shocking to hear this, but I wasn’t surprised that the United Front Work Department’s thin-skinned apparatchiks felt threatened by my granular reporting on their operations in Vancouver. I had named names and cited documents.

I had even developed sources within local Chinese espionage networks. And I had drawn links between senior CCP official Bin Zhang, Markham underground casino suspect Wei Wei, and a Chinese front company that donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s family foundation. It can’t be overstated how significant this reporting was. I showed how this espionage operation extended to elite criminal suspects and their United Front comrades in Vancouver, including the flag-waving leaders of rallies against Hong Kong Canadians. This in turn was all connected to Triad suspects with deep ties to illegal casinos, violent loan-sharking networks,Chinese police forces and military, and the Vancouver Model of money laundering and economic infiltration. And I continued to dig. After my book came out, I learned that the key

fundraiser and Chinese community organizer for Justin Trudeau in Toronto was flagged in Fintrac suspicious transaction reports. The documents said this Markham man had, in just a few months, routed millions of dollars of wire transfers from Hong Kong for Chinese corruption suspects accused of big-time real estate money laundering in...

“…a shocking story, told by a brave reporter who has forced a public conversation about corruption in Canada, how widespread it has become and how high up in the political establishment it has spread. It's also a ripping yarn.”

-- Terry Glavin * Journalist *

“This book reads like a thriller and is stranger than fiction. Gripping, racy and exciting, it is difficult to put down. A tale of gambling, narcotics, tycoons, criminal gangs and Communists. And the shocking part is that it’s not a novel, it is all true.

?Based on meticulous research, this aptly titled book exposes the naivety and corruption at the heart of western democracies which for too long have kowtowed to the Chinese Communist Party regime and their crime syndicates and as a result put the free world in jeopardy. This book is a wake-up call and a must-read.”

-- Benedict Rogers * CEO *

Sam’s vigorous journalism on tracking and exposing money laundering has been crucial in the national push to reform and update Canada’s laws. This book pulls his work, and indeed the work of many professionals, into one explosive narrative. Canadian lore often pitches our country as a well-meaning good partner in the world. But as Sam’s report has shown, we are a node in global systems of corruption and crime, with the infiltration and implications only becoming worse over time.

The global money laundering and corruption detailed in this book undermines Canada’s own democracy and safety, while we act as a meeting and banking hub for criminals and states to continue to repress some of the most vulnerable people around the world. And it is not only through wilful blindness that Canada has found itself in this position. Sam shows that as the money rolls in, there are enablers in Canadian intuitions that are willing to roll out the carpet for these illicit funds, horrendous impacts be damned. Hopefully, Sam’s book will wake up Ottawa into realizing that global corruption systems are one of the biggest threats the world faces, perpetuating inequality, conflict, human rights violation, and environmental degradation. And we need to act accordingly.

James Cohen, President

-- James Cohen * Preside

ISBN: 9780888903143

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 36mm

Weight: 600g

472 pages

Illustrated edition