Project Chrome
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The Release Existed After All and It Was Filed Under Federal Policing Eastern Region: the RCMP Document on Project Chrome Names Its Own Money Laundering Team, Dates the Searches to March 2024, and Still Will Not Name the Organization (September 29, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 29, 2026 briefing on Project Chrome, which recorded that no RCMP release page on the file could be located. The release exists. It is published by RCMP Federal Policing Eastern Region at rcmp.ca/en/news/2026/09/4357357 and dated September 29, 2026, and it closes four of the gaps that briefing left open. The…
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Four Years, a Hundred Bank Accounts and Forty-Five Thousand Transactions to Reach Sixteen People and Fourteen Kilos: the RCMP Charges Franco Lopez, 61, as the Alleged Head of Project Chrome, and the Sixteenth Accused Is Already Out of the Country (September 29, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 8:15 a.m. Eastern by Noovo Info, carried by Global News at 12:25 p.m. and by Narcity Montreal at 2:46 p.m. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has charged sixteen people in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering investigation called Project Chrome, opened in 2022. Fifteen were expected at the…