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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.

AUSTRALIA-THAILAND/DRUGS-ARREST (UPDATE 1, PIX):UPDATE 1-Arrest in Thailand of second drug kingpin tightens dragnet on huge syndicate

3 Min Read BANGKOK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested in Thailand, a narcotics official said, tightening a transnational dragnet on the group that police say dominates the $70 billion annual Asia-Pacific drug trade. Following are some key alleged members of the Sam Gor drug syndicate, also known as “The Company”, who have fallen afoul of authorities: -Tse Chi Lop (57): Also known as Sam Gor, or “Brother Number Three” in Cantonese, the Ch...

To India’s east, the surreal rise of a narco-nightmare The surreal history of East Asia’s narco-kingdoms, as dark as any opium nightmare, teaches us what happens when authoritarianism, corruption and underdevelopment collude to bring about the implosion of polities. An anti-drug exhibit is seen at the Drug Elimination museum in Yangon, Myanmar. “Loyalty to the Heavens”, read the banner; beneath it, a man cried in pain as a blowtorch was held to his feet, hammer-blow jolts from an electr...

Ice lord Tse Chi Lop’s drug-trafficking syndicate has spread across the world A MONG THE strangest by-products of the Cultural Revolution was the creation of one of the world’s most lethal organised-crime syndicates. When Mao Zedong at last turned against the Red Guards, he sent many of them to be re-educated in Guangdong, the province abutting Hong Kong. Either to avoid prison or after their release, many escaped to the British enclave, as Hong Kong was then, where some banded together as ...

Captured Canadian, one of worlds biggest drug kingpins, learned the trade from Montreal Mafia Tse Chi Lop has been compared to some of modern history’s biggest crime lords, true kingpins, including Mexico’s cartel boss Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and Pablo Escobar Author of the article: Adrian Humphreys Publishing date: Jan 25, 2021  •  January 26, 2021  •  6 minute read  •  Tse Chi Lops wealth and power kept him out of the headlines for years, allowing him to live a jet-set ...

Tse Chi Lop has been compared to some of modern history’s biggest crime lords, true kingpins, including Mexico’s cartel boss Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and…

It was the end of a long game of cat and mouse with authorities around the world, and one that has been welcomed by police in New Zealand. The sting was engineered by Australian Federal Police (AFP), whom the New Zealand Police’s Detective Superintendent Greg Williams, national manager of organised crime, congratulated. “Tse Chi Lop and his network [have] had a significant negative impact on communities in both Australia and New Zealand as a result of their role in the methamphetamine tr...

The arrest of Tse Chi Lop, head of Asia’s largest drug syndicate, does little to alter the structures that facilitate the region’s booming narcotics trade. From Myanmar’s ethnic armies and state-backed militias to Hong Kong triad organizations, the profits driving the trade will continue—Tse Chi Lop, like any link in the supply chain, is replaceable. Editorial Alleged drug kingpin Tse Chi Lop, head of Asia’s largest criminal organization, was arrested in the Netherlands on January 22 ...

The New Paper His organisation allegedly dominates $93 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade Jan 25, 2021 06:00 am 0 Engagements AMSTERDAM/SYDNEY: Dutch police have arrested the alleged leader of a large Asian drug syndicate who is listed as one of the worlds most-wanted fugitives and has been compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Tse Chi Lop, a China-born Canadian national, was detained on Friday at the request of Australian police, who led an investigation that found his o...