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In 2025, Canadian Member of Parliament Kevin Vuong presented The Bureau’s founder, Sam Cooper, with a King Charles III Coronation Medal in recognition of his reporting that unearthed foreign interference.
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Sam Cooper is an award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author who has presented his anti-corruption findings to Canadian law-enforcement agencies, officials in the Pentagon, financial and legal professionals, and academics. His breaking of dozens of stories on a multi-billion-dollar, systematic scheme of Chinese transnational money laundering and underground banking in British Columbia government casinos led to the academic recognition and naming of the “Vancouver Model” of money laundering. This model and its variations are now widely reported and reflected in a 2025 U.S. Treasury report that documents more than US$300 billion in Chinese criminal-broker money laundering over four years, many of the transactions involving Chinese international students making bulk cash banking transactions, similar to the casino money laundering that Cooper first exposed in Canada.
Cooper graduated with a degree in history, philosophy, and English from the University of Toronto and a certificate in journalism from Langara College, before reporting for The Province and the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia, and Global News in Ottawa. In 2023, he launched the investigative journalism platform The Bureau. In 2025, Canadian Member of Parliament Kevin Vuong presented Cooper with a King Charles III Coronation Medal in recognition of his reporting that unearthed foreign interference.
Cooper has won a number of awards for narrative reporting, and his first book,Wilful Blindness, debuted as a #1 seller on Amazon in Canada. Away from work, he enjoys cycling, swimming, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, shooting hoops, and taking tactical classes from a former Canadian JTF2 Special Forces expert.
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