Follow the documented connections between local crime, cross-border activity and the movement of proceeds.
These sources answer different questions. Toronto police records describe reported offences; international records describe selected investigations, recorded offences abroad and financial-intelligence exchanges.
What the connection means
Shared categories, places and reporting periods provide context. There are no matched Toronto incidents, people or transactions in this dataset, and it cannot estimate how much Toronto crime involves money laundering.
01 / Evidence
Documented connections
Three selected records. Each retains the scope and legal status of its source.
Toronto searches01
Project CHICKADEE: stolen-vehicle exports
CBSA reports exports toward Middle East and West Africa markets.
Toronto searches are documented; the operation totals span multiple regions and cannot be assigned to Toronto incidents.
306stolen vehicles recoveredvehicles across the operation
20individuals arrested and chargedpeople across the operation
134chargesoffences charged across the operation
Status as of
Arrests and charges; no conviction established by this publication.
Scope & source notes
Ontario and Québec investigation with Toronto searches and overseas destinations.
Category and geography are contextual mappings; source supplies no CSI event IDs. Regional destinations do not identify specific countries.
RCMP identifies a Europol tip as the investigation's starting point.
No Toronto connection established by the cited sources.
more than 56,000,000estimated cryptocurrency recovereddollars (currency not specified by source) · recovered assets; not adjudicated laundering proceeds
Status as of
Seizure and ongoing investigation; publication says charges may follow.
Scope & source notes
Canadian investigation announced from Montréal; Europol referral.
Connects the supplied site's report to independent primary evidence; no allegation is converted into a conviction. Local ID is ours, not a published database key.
Toronto municipal counts. These separate series cannot be added together to count laundering.
Toronto Police · CSI
Auto theft
6,445 2025 incidents
2016 · 3,2322025 · 6,445
The local category discussed in the export evidence below.
Statistics Canada · Toronto municipal
Fraud
14,852 2025 incidents
2016 · 9,1662025 · 14,852
A separate police-reported offence series.
Statistics Canada · Toronto municipal
Proceeds of crime
2 2025 incidents
2016 · 182025 · 2
A broader proceeds-of-crime offence; not a laundering-only measure.
Each sparkline uses its own vertical scale. A recorded proceeds-of-crime count measures that offence category, not the amount or prevalence of laundering.
View Toronto annual counts
Auto theft · Toronto municipal · incidents
Year
Count
2016
3,232
2017
3,503
2018
4,479
2019
4,882
2020
5,292
2021
6,064
2022
8,844
2023
11,275
2024
8,666
2025
6,445
Fraud · Toronto municipal · incidents
Year
Count
2016
9,166
2017
9,724
2018
11,220
2019
13,008
2020
11,272
2021
10,166
2022
11,819
2023
14,826
2024
15,373
2025
14,852
Proceeds of crime · Toronto municipal · incidents
Year
Count
2016
18
2017
9
2018
5
2019
4
2020
11
2021
11
2022
5
2023
3
2024
2
2025
2
View Toronto CMA, Canada & the five-category CSI total
Toronto municipal police service, Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA) and Canada have different boundaries. The CMA extends beyond the City of Toronto. Fraud and proceeds of crime are outside the dashboard’s five CSI categories.
CSI total: assault, auto theft, break and enter, robbery, and theft over. Counts include supported Toronto records whose neighbourhood is unresolved. Partial 2026 data is excluded.
FINTRAC exchanges information with foreign financial intelligence units (FIUs).
These are operational activity counts concerning money laundering and terrorist financing; newer reporting also covers sanctions evasion and threats to Canada’s security. They are not counts of offences, convictions or Toronto incidents. Requests and disclosure packages measure different activities and must not be summed.
Requests from foreign FIUs
2023–24
280
2024–25
378
Queries for information received by FINTRAC from foreign financial intelligence units in relation to money laundering and terrorist financing.
Disclosure packages to foreign FIUs
2023–24
231
2024–25
345
Financial intelligence disclosure packages provided by FINTRAC to foreign financial intelligence units; a unique disclosure may be sent to multiple recipients.
FINTRAC annual reports · fiscal periods (April–March)
A single disclosure may go to multiple recipients. Fiscal years overlap two calendar years; they are not merged into the Toronto annual series. The bars use a separate scale for each measure.
04 / Europe · Calendar years · 2016–2024
Recorded money-laundering offences
Seven selected countries in Eurostat’s police-recorded crime series, shown alphabetically.
These are counts of recorded money-laundering offences (ICCS 07041). Laws, reporting practices and enforcement differ between countries, so the counts cannot rank underlying laundering prevalence or personal risk. Canada is absent from this extract.
Belgium
4,8972024 recorded offences
20162024
France
3,8452024 recorded offences
20162024
Germany
37,6632024 recorded offences
20162024
Italy
1,9062024 recorded offences
20162024
Netherlands
1,4752024 recorded offences
20162024
Spain
8082024 recorded offences
20162024
Sweden
19,0172024 recorded offences
20162024
Sparklines show each country’s own trend on an independent scale. They compare neither population-adjusted rates nor financial amounts.
View all country-year counts
Belgium (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
882
2017
905
2018
1,354
2019
2,375
2020
6,093
2021
6,562
2022
4,764
2023
5,080
2024
4,897
France (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
1,113
2017
1,222
2018
1,516
2019
1,712
2020
2,102
2021
2,712
2022
2,893
2023
2,978
2024
3,845
Germany (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
11,541
2017
10,015
2018
8,652
2019
9,764
2020
8,942
2021
14,785
2022
22,614
2023
32,573
2024
37,663
Italy (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
1,805
2017
1,941
2018
1,959
2019
2,218
2020
2,097
2021
1,687
2022
1,561
2023
1,517
2024
1,906
Netherlands (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
610
2017
700
2018
901
2019
1,380
2020
1,945
2021
2,475
2022
1,540
2023
1,530
2024
1,475
Spain (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
262
2017
260
2018
272
2019
295
2020
310
2021
343
2022
411
2023
516
2024
808
Sweden (European peer) · recorded offences
Year
Count
2016
1,971
2017
3,137
2018
6,787
2019
6,773
2020
9,303
2021
10,534
2022
14,958
2023
19,033
2024
19,017
Eurostat · crim_off_cat · ICCS 07041 ↗. Eurostat, dataset crim_off_cat, ICCS07041, retrieved 2026-09-28. Changes: subset to seven European peer countries and reshaped for presentation. · Reuse terms
05 / Provenance
Sources & coverage
Original publishers remain the authority for their records. Review date: .
2016–2025 full calendar years; five dashboard categories. Auto theft is shown separately to explain the category connection.
City of Toronto police records; see About the data for archive coverage, refresh details and licence.
Local & national statistics
Statistics Canada · Fraud and proceeds of crime
2016–2025 actual incidents. Table 35-10-0180-01 supplies Toronto municipal police-service counts; 35-10-0177-01 supplies Toronto CMA and Canada. Violation codes 2160 and 3825.
Statistics Canada Open Licence. Adaptation acknowledgments appear in the footer. Counts are presented here; the download also retains the source’s rates per 100,000.
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden; 2016–2024, calendar years. Dataset crim_off_cat, classification ICCS 07041, unit number of offences.
CC BY 4.0 / Commission reuse policy. Our selection and formatting reshape the country-year data; licence and attribution terms.
Original factual annotation and link; website permits attributed non-commercial reproduction; no blanket open-data licence claimed · Terms / rights notice
Department of Finance Canada. National assessment; information through 2024-12-31 unless otherwise stated; HTML page modified 2026-03-10
Original factual annotation and link; website permits attributed non-commercial reproduction; no blanket open-data licence claimed · Terms / rights notice
Alexander Browder. 164 selected cryptocurrency cases, 2005–2025, described in March 2026 report; not comprehensive; no Canada/Toronto year-count table published.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Federal Policing Eastern Region. Montréal-issued announcement, 2025-09-18; investigation begun June 2024
Original factual annotation and link; website permits attributed non-commercial reproduction; no blanket open-data licence claimed · Terms / rights notice
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Country-year recorded offences; ICCS 07041 money laundering; Canada 2013–2024 present in July 2026 XLSX but not copied here
Do not redistribute workbook. unodc.org/unodc/legal.html: personal non-commercial use without right to resell or redistribute or create derivative works. · Terms / rights notice
06 / Reading the data
How it’s organized
Each observation carries its source, place, time period and unit.
1. Keep each measure intact
Toronto CSI, Statistics Canada offences, Eurostat offences and FINTRAC exchanges are separate series. Calendar-year counts and April–March fiscal activity retain their own periods. Missing values are shown as “Not available”, never converted to zero.
2. Describe the connection
Evidence links to a crime category, a documented geography or another source. A calendar-year comparison lines up years only. These links do not identify the same incidents or establish causation.
3. Preserve the evidence
Each selected record includes a publication or modification date, the status as of the source, its geographic scope and a citation. Allegations and charges remain distinct from convictions; recovered assets do not establish an adjudicated laundering amount.
Dates, update process & limitations
Review date: when this collection was checked. It is not the latest event date or a promise that a case’s legal status is current.
Source date: publication date, or an explicitly labelled page-modified date. An assessment’s knowledge cutoff can be earlier.
Statistical periods: local full years 2016–2025; European full years 2016–2024; FINTRAC fiscal years 2023–24 and 2024–25.
Updates: accepted source files are reviewed explicitly before this page is rebuilt. It does not perform live searches or refresh case status automatically.
Selection: these three records and seven countries are a documented subset, not a complete global inventory. Database and UNODC references contribute context, not republished case narratives or a redistributed workbook.
Geography: Toronto municipal, Toronto CMA, Canada and foreign countries remain labelled separately. No neighbourhood-level laundering estimates are produced.
What’s inside the complete data package
The JSON groups information into local_context, international_statistics, evidence, sources, connections, limitations and provenance. Connection types are category context, geographic context, source reference and calendar-year context. Every connection is marked context_only: true and carries its rationale and citations.
Source file hashes record which accepted inputs produced the package. The CSV downloads are convenient statistical extracts; the complete package retains the explanatory evidence and links.
07 / Take a closer look
Download the reviewed data
Research snapshot reviewed 2026-09-28. Reuse terms vary by original source.
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0180-01, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in Ontario, 2010 to 2025 (released 2026-07-22). Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0177-01, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, Canada, provinces, territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Canadian Forces Military Police, 2010 to 2025 (released 2026-07-22). Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.