Covert cash exchanges at a gas station and a strip mall. Code names caught on wiretap. A police raid opening a bedroom safe to reveal more than $130,000.

Kypros Perikleous was a senior, widely admired city of Toronto transportation manager — on long-term health leave at his modest Scarborough home — while he laundered profits from illegal sports betting, some of which allegedly flowed to a former Hells Angels hit man.