Also surveillance footage of Tse with members of the crime group. The have also gathered phone call logs linking him to other suspected syndicate members. To get its drugs to market, the Sam Gor syndicate works closely with Japan’s Yakuza, Thai organized crime, and Australian motorcycle gangs, among other crime groups, according to regional anti-narcotics agents.Īccording to regional police sources, the task force has gathered phone intercepts of Tse talking about his drug business. These are the 14K, Wo Shing Wo, Sun Yee On, the Big Circle Gang and the Bamboo Union. Taiwan, while not a formal member, is also assisting.Īt the core of the syndicate are at least five triad groups that originated in Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan but which have global reach, AFP officers said. Counter-narcotics agencies from China, Myanmar, the United States and Thailand are also leading participants, along with Australia. The investigation, which involves about a dozen countries, has been dubbed Operation Kungur. He was tried in New York and in 2000 sentenced to nine years in prison, which he mostly served in the federal correctional institution in Elkton, Ohio. In the late 1990s, he was arrested and extradited from Hong Kong to the United States on charges of conspiracy to import heroin into America. Tse has previously been involved in drug trafficking. So far, at least one senior member of the syndicate has been arrested, according to investigators and police documents. Counter-narcotics agents said they suspect he has long been aware he is under surveillance. Some have links to drug trafficking that go back decades, according to the target list and investigators from four countries, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Other suspected leaders hail from Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Myanmar and Vietnam. The AFP has identified 19 top syndicate leaders, four of whom are Canadian nationals, the target list shows. In a report in July, the UN agency said the meth trade had reached “unprecedented and dangerous levels.” This is a “direct challenge to the public security and health of the region.” Chinese Triad Alliance Causing the street price to plummet in many countries. The supply of the highly addictive drug has also surged. The syndicate is the major factor in the fourfold increase in region-wide meth trafficking in the past five years. “The word kingpin often gets thrown around, but there is no doubt it applies here.” Referring to Latin America’s most legendary narco-traffickers. “Tse Chi Lop is in the league of El Chapo or maybe Pablo Escobar,” said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for UNODC. Estimated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The syndicate is “conservatively” raking in $8 billion a year and could be earning as much as $17.7 billion annually. The syndicate traffic’s the drug to countries stretching from Japan to New Zealand. Brother Number Three is Target Number OneĪccording to interviews with regional law enforcers from eight countries, as well as a review of law enforcement documents, the syndicate produces vast quantities of high-grade methamphetamine in Myanmar. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) alert circulated among regional government agencies this year says Tse is “believed to be” the leader of the syndicate.
A flow-chart of the syndicate in a Taiwanese law enforcement document identifies Tse as the “Multinational CEO” of the Sam Gor syndicate.
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