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| Tse Chi Lop, a Canadian national born in China, is suspected of leading a vast multinational drug trafficking syndicate formed out of an alliance of five of Asia’s triad groups, according to law enforcement officials. |
The alleged leader of an Asian drug syndicate who has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is fighting extradition to Australia, saying would not get a fair trial there.
Tse Chi Lop, a Chinese-born Canadian national, was arrested in January at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport at the request of Australian police while in transit from Taiwan to Canada.
He has denied wrongdoing and is contesting extradition with his lawyer, arguing that Australian authorities essentially engineered his expulsion from Taiwan to Canada on a flight with a stopover in the Netherlands so he could be nabbed there.
While Australia has extradition treaties with both the Netherlands and Canada, Tse's lawyer argued in court on Tuesday that Dutch extradition policies were more advantageous for Australian law enforcement.
"If Australia was involved in inappropriately turning my client over to the Netherlands, his fair trial rights have already been violated," lawyer Andre Seebregts told Reuters after the hearing. He asked judges to investigate the circumstances of the arrest before deciding on extradition. Prosecutors said the circumstances of Tse's expulsion from Taiwan were not relevant.
Australian investigators say Tse's organization dominates the $70 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.
Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the U.N. drugs agency UNODC, told Reuters in 2019 that “Tse Chi Lop is in the league of El Chapo or maybe Pablo Escobar,” referring to Latin America’s most notorious drug lords.
Tse, 57, spoke briefly in court to protest his innocence.
"Mass media are calling me a drug kingpin but that is not true," ANP news agency quoted him as telling the judges through interpreters. He added that he was scared Australian judges would be biased against him.
The Rotterdam court is expected on July 2 to rule on the extradition request or order additional investigations into the circumstances of Tse's arrest.
Authorities also refer to the syndicate as Sam Gor — or Brother Number Three in Cantonese — after one of Mr Tse's nicknames.
The 57-year-old is wanted in Australia for his connection to the Australian Federal Police (AFP)-led Operation Volante, which dismantled a global crime syndicate operating in five countries.
According to the AFP, the operation resulted in the arrest of 27 people for importing and trafficking "substantial quantities" of heroin and methamphetamine into Australia in 2013.
The AFP accuses Tse of being "the senior leader of the Sam Gor syndicate". The group has "been connected with or directly involved in at least 13 cases" of drug trafficking since January 2015.
Sources: Reuters; ABC (Australia)
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ReplyDeleteThere is only one El Chapo! He is JGL "El Jefe De la Sierra "
A man who sold oranges to feed his mother at a young age and became a multi billionaire ! #701
Mis respetos para El Patron !
Why ur patron (dog) is in jail
Deletepinche lamba huevos todo el dia te la pasas hablando de puro el chapo el mayo no mames pinche mocoso mejor ponte a trabajar y no andar ahi perdiendo tiempo
DeleteAt the moment he is Jefe of a 12'x7' cell in Florence Colorado. The good news is that he gets to stay there for the rest of his life.
DeleteHe was a businessman...
DeleteThe multibillionaire was 701 for 1 billion imaginary dollars nobody can find, only Forbes could do that to suck up to USDOJ that wanted to extort him in prison...
DeleteOf course, Unpresidented Disgrace is one more fuckticious multibillionaire, worth about 10 billion USD according to his loud ass.
This is a real Boss right Here. No Publicity , He operates in scrutiny and doesnt need to behead 40 people and leave a narcobanta so people can feel His presence.
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't need to behead anybody because his area of dominance doesn't have the same factors and variables at play. If it did he would do the same. He's not a "boss" either way - just another scumbag.
DeleteThe variables are the same 1:14 except this guy got smart and got all the triad bosses together and convinced them they could make more money working together then against.
Delete6:32 Thanks for the reply.
Deletedoubt anyone will ever again reach the level of Chapo o su compadre el Seňor don Ismael
ReplyDeleteWell Sonny boy, this asian Asian dude reached chapo status, weather you like it or not.
DeleteLOL they just a bunch of sell out killing Mexicans.. Nazario moreno cheated death and still alive.. Cienfuegos got out of usa prison.. arturo Beltrán had chapo and mayo sweating.. I can go on..
DeleteIt was reported he blew 60 mill in a Macau casino in one night, he's got Chapo money
Delete1:23 hes got Chapo beat for sure. Burma is this guys bread and butter.
DeleteChapos level crying on the way to prison? And his kids/wife still having to sell drugs to pay bills? Lol or rata con sombrero having all of his sons go to U.S. prisons and be rats cuz he can’t man up for them? This guy is well above them stop listening to fantasy corridos and Netflix series pendejo
DeleteI'm sure the Chinese will take over the drug trade in Mexico like everything else. It would actually help Mexico. You don't see triads acting like these psycho child gangs in Mexico.
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Get into school loan debts and then work at Best Buy to pay them off when information is free online? @5:17
DeleteGood luck Sam Gor, you are absolutely fucked. Fighting extradition just screams “I know they are going to find me guilty”. His counsel is essentially claiming that Australia forced Taiwan to expel Sam Gor (good luck proving that) and that Australia also chose the flight that Sam Gor took to leave Taiwan for Canada (again, I doubt that Australia forced Sam Gor to pick a particular flight, and if he even paid for his own flight then that argument is a non-starter).
ReplyDelete11:07 nothing like hard time in Australia….
DeleteDMX is alive...
ReplyDeleteOn another note, he possibly has the smallest unit of any druglord.
ReplyDeleteare chinese groups the most low profile in the world?
ReplyDeleteLow key how?
DeleteEverything says “made in China”
11:52 the enterprising american outsourcing offshorers who moved their manufacturing to China still own their corporations, they get heavily victimized by pirate copycats that took them on accepting 40 cents USD a week salaries about 50 years ago, that is why the chinese supplement their take with drug trafficking and colonizing Africa. The US, Mèxico, australia, the world.
DeleteLol 11:52. Yes, China now huge economic presence in Mexico. Lithium mines, fuel/gas, and it goes on...will be interesting to see their growth and influence in 5 years. Everything China does is very well thought out, end game, seeing big picture.
DeleteNot to mention their disdain for USA and slightly less foe Canada.
China could be a huge player, using DTO's to do dirty work to complete their end goals. Money and domination is the name of the game
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