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The UNODC continues to spread misinformation about drug production in Myanmar, while providing cover for official complicity in the narcotics trade.

Tse Chi Lop is widely referred to as "Asia's El Chapo." But a profile at Toronto Life by Stephen Marche makes the case that the comparison is off by a mile....

BANGKOK, June 10 — Drug traffickers in East and South-east Asia found ways to evade Covid-19 curbs to boost trade and diversify production, with Cambodia emerging as a large-scale source for methamphetamine, the United Nations said on Thursday. The trafficking of methamphetamine or meth, by far...

March 05, 2021 08:18 Given the estimated US$70 billion being made each year in Asias drug trade, regional experts say recent arrests of two key drug figures are seen as unlikely to dent the long-term flow of narcotics. Dutch police said in January they had arrested Tse Chi Lop, allegedly the leader of the Asian drug syndicate known as The Company or Sam Gor (Brother No. 3 in Cantonese). It is alleged to have made tens of billions of dollars each year off drugs in the region. Then in February...

March 5, 2021 Share Given the estimated $70 billion being made each year in Asia’s drug trade, regional experts say recent arrests of two key drug figures are seen as unlikely to dent the long-term flow of narcotics. Dutch police said in January they had arrested Tse Chi Lop, allegedly the leader of the Asian drug syndicate known as The Company or Sam Gor (Brother No. 3 in Cantonese). It is alleged to have made tens of billions of dollars each year off drugs in the region. Then in Feb...

The recent arrest of Tse Chi Lop, the alleged leader of the Sam Gor drug syndicate and one of the world's most-wanted suspected criminals, is a remarkable victory for the coalition of governments and police forces that pursued him.

[Reuters] Thailand’s counter-narcotics police chief on Tuesday confirmed the arrest in Thai territory of a suspected senior leader with a triad that, according to law enforcement sources, dominates a multi-billion-dollar illicit drugs trade in the Asia-Pacific region. The suspect, Hong Kongs Lee Chung Chak, was arrested in October but is trying to block his extradition to Australia through an appeal in the courts, Lt. Gen. Montri Yimyaem, commander of the Thai police’s Narcoti...

Tse Chi Lop syndicate: Second drug kingpin arrested in Thailand tightening dragnet on Sam Gor group CNN 2/8/2021 Story by Reuters © Chaiwat Subprasom/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A Thai soldier guards bags of methamphetamine pills in this file photograph from June 2019. A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the $70 bil...

A second alleged senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the $91 billion annual Asia Pacific drug trade. The October arrest of Hong Kong citizen Lee Chung Chak in Bangkok preceded last months high-profile arrest in the Netherlands of Tse Chi Lop, a China-born Canadian national who police suspect is the top leader of the syndicate, also called "The Company". Mr L...

Story by Reuters A Thai soldier guards bags of methamphetamine pills in this file photograph from June 2019. (CNN)A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the $70 billion annual Asia Pacific drug trade. The October arrest of Hong Kong citizen Lee Chung Chak in Bangkok preceded last months high-profile arrest in the Netherlands of Tse Chi Lop, a China-bo...