3 Asian Organized Crime Groups Supply Chapo With Precursor

Borderland Beat

The powerful Chinese Organized Criminal Group the centuries old "Triads", get a cut of all trafficking of each group.  They operate a structure that gives them a cut of each layer of production from the lab or farm to the trafficker.  The names at the bottom are no exception.  This is from the same report that Vato posted also in fragmented format of the Proceso 1888 report, but this is the Asian element.  See bottom for more information on the Triads.

MÉXICO, DF (apro).- Los tentáculos del cártel de Sinaloa que encabeza Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán han llegado ya al continente asiático.The tentacles of the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman have reached the Asian continent.

El capo, uno de los hombres más poderosos del mundo, según la revista Forbes, es todo un empresario del narcotráfico que opera como un holding con presencia en Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia y Argentina, donde proporciona no sólo la logística y protección, sino una red de complicidades y las condiciones para el tráfico de estupefacientes, a quienes funcionan como los gerentes de su empresa.El Capo, one of the most powerful men in the world, according to Forbes magazine, is a drug entrepreneur operating as a holding company with operations in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina, which provides not only the logistics and protection, but a sophisticated network of complicity and environments for drug trafficking.

En Perú, por ejemplo, la Cuarta Fiscalía contra el Crimen Organizado mantiene abierta una investigación sobre la presencia del cártel de Sinaloa en su zona fronteriza con Ecuador, donde la estructura de El Chapo está integrada por delincuentes colombianos, ecuatorianos y peruanos que protegen la producción de cocaína y mantienen el control sobre las rutas para traficarla ( Proceso 1888 ). In Peru, for example, the Fourth Organized Crime Prosecutor has open an investigation into the presence of the Sinaloa cartel in Ecuador, where the structure of El Chapo organization consists Colombians, Ecuadorians and Peruvians protecting production of cocaine and maintaining control over the routes for trafficking  (Proceso 1888).

Como en toda empresa, la organización delictiva cuenta además con proveedores de distintos productos para elaborar su mercancía. As in every business, the criminal organization also has different facilitators to develop their merchandise products.

Tres de ellas, según la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), son organizaciones criminales asiáticas que abastecen al cártel de Sinaloa de precursores químicos para la fabricación de drogas sintéticas.Three of them, according to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) are Asian criminal organizations that supply the Sinaloa cartel of precursor chemicals for the manufacture of synthetic drugs such as meth.

Según un informe de la dependencia, la Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de la Delincuencia Organizada (SEIDO) descubrió, en reuniones con representantes de países latinoamericanos, que hay tres organizaciones trasnacionales criminales que surten al cártel liderado por El Chapo .According to a report by the agency, the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) found, in meetings with representatives of Latin American countries, there are three Asian criminal transnational organizations that supply the  Sinaloa cartel led by El Chapo.

Dichas organizaciones son: Sun Yee On (Nueva Virtud y Paz), Sap Sze Wui o 14 Kilates –al que también se conoce como el Cártel Wo– y Tai Huen Tsai (El Gran Círculo).They are: Sun Yee On (Heaven and Earth), Sap Sze Wui or “14Karat” -which is also known as the Organized Criminal Group  Huen Tai Wo-and Tsai (Great Circle). Éstas también mantienen vínculos con los Caballeros Templarios , que dirige Enrique Plancarte, de acuerdo con la PGR. They also maintain links with the Knights Templar, led by Enrique Plancarte, according to the PGR.

Las investigaciones realizadas por la dependencia que dirige Jesús Murillo Karam han confirmado el vínculo que tienen las organizaciones criminales asiáticas con las mexicanas, y ha alertado de ello a sus similares latinoamericanas. Research conducted by the agency headed by Jesús Murillo Karam confirmed the link with Asian criminal organizations with the Mexican cartels, and warned the Asian groups are much like the Mexican Cartels.

Proceso

"Triads" By Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

I have added information on the Chinese Mafia which incudes information about the Asian groups mentioned in the Proceso Article .  In the Triads you will see similarities to Mexican Cartels, however the Triads have been in existence  since the 16th century and have infused into governments in a way that is very different. 

For example when HK returned to Mainland China the government ask assistance of the Triads for "order".  Triads control all Asian countries as the head or top of the triangle of operation.

Recently there were brick makers from Sinaloa arrested in Malaysia from drug trafficking and are awaiting execution.  I never bought into the idea the Sinaloa was manufacturing meth in Asia, because Triads would not allow this to happen. 

What I suspect really happened is the brothers were recruited by a scout in Sinaloa to work and train in a legit profession receiving a bonus and high pay for a year or so.  Once in Asia the passports are taken from the recruits, at that time they are "sold".

This is a slave trade whereby migrants from Asia, Mexico and Central America are taken, resold to others of organized crime and wealthy private citizens to work for almost no pay, what little pay they receive that  goes to paying debt incurred for room and board, in essence they are stuck. With passports taken away they are forced into criminal trades such as sex trade or drugs manufacturing or trafficking.

Triads are so brutal with methods of torture passed down from centuries that they make what Mexican cartels consider torture child's play.  One evening in China my husband and I were out with our body guards and the subject came up of the types of torture, I was horrified and stunned, I will never write about what I heard.  I will say MDCs have a huge learning curve yet to explore.

Arguably the Triads are the most powerful organized crime group in the world, it is impossible to tell how powerful because they are a secret society centuries old and ingrained in the culture.  Russian and Albanian gangs could beat them out but in my opinion I say so far "no".  Bottom line with Mexican cartels we really have not seen how bad it can get.

 

TRIADS

 

 

·         Triads are family-run organized crime gangs. They are sometimes refereed to as the Chinese Mafia or, among mainland Chinese, as "black societies." The Triads are active in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the Chinatowns in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.

 ·         Chinese Triad societies control all Chinese organized crime. They are some of the world's largest crime organizations. They are believed to have more than 2M  members, with 150,000 in Hong Kong alone.

 ·         The term "Triad" is relatively modern English term used to describe the triangular symbols found on flags and banners used by the Hung clan, also known as the Heaven and Earth Society. The bosses of the Triads are called "dragonheads."

·         The Triads are believed to control an empire worth many billions of dollars. The largest and most powerful Triad, Sun Yee On, is believed to have 140,000 members. The unnamed "Dragon Head" of Kong Sun Yee On, was named on Asiaweek’s list of the 50 most powerful people in Asia.

·         Sun Yee On is believed to be particularly well connected with the Hong Kong tycoons and Communist party elite. One high-level Communist official even referred to them as "patriotic." The second and third largest Triads respectively are Who Sing Who and 14K (14 stands for the road number of a former headquarters and K stands for Kowloon).