Mounted police seized more than 1,000 kilograms of high-purity cocaine on a vessel off Vancouver Island in the past, with a market value of several hundred million yuan. (File picture)
A Chinese man named Tse Chi Lop (Tse Chi Lop, transliteration) in Toronto was considered by the Canadian police to be compatible with the American gangster El Chapo and Colombian drug lord Esco. Pablo Escobar is the leading drug dealer.
The 55-year-old Xie Zhile was born in Guangzhou, China. He first went to Hong Kong, and then moved to Canada in 1988, like many Hong Kong people who avoided the "97 Handover". He has now become a key investigation target of the Canadian police and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
There have been a large number of synthetic drugs in the entire Asian region in recent years, such as methamphetamine (commonly known as methamphetamine) and ketamine (commonly known as ketamine). The drug cartel "Sam Gor" (Sam Gor) led by Xie Zhile has made great progress from it. Big push.
The members of the "Sange" group are all over the world. Canada is not the main market of the group, but Toronto plays a vital role in the drug trafficking network established by the group.
The method he started was to join Toronto's "big circle gang" and smuggle the drug heroin from the "Golden Triangle" of Southeast Asia to North America, thus making the first pot of gold.
Douglas (Jeremy Douglas) has been leading the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Southeast Asia for most of the past 20 years. In the past three years, in order to track the activities of the "Three Brothers" group, he had to rely on the assistance of police forces from China, Australia, Myanmar and other regions and countries.
The "Sange" group produces 300 tons of "ice"
The Myanmar police detained Cai Jeng Ze (transliteration), an important member of the "Sange" group at the airport, immediately notified Douglas, who immediately Provide relevant information to the Myanmar police so that the police have sufficient reasons to continue to detain the suspect.
Analysts from the Office of Drug Problems estimated that the "Sange" group produces 300 tons of "meth" every year, or enough to meet 10 billion injections of drugs, which fuels Asian drugs.
As the founder of the "Three Brothers" group, Xie Zhile, his ingenuity and innovation ability, even Douglas was amazed. He assembled advanced chemistry and logistics skills, which not only met market demand, but also helped expand the market.
"He innovated, broke up the already huge drug network and reorganized it to develop and grow. His innovative work on drugs is just like Uber’s transportation business or Netflix’s movie business. The work is the same, as long as I saw an opportunity, I immediately seized it and reformed it."
Toronto police detective Yates (Kenneth Yates) testified to the U.S. Senate Standing Investigation Subcommittee:" In my opinion, many of them (the big circle gang) are extremely talented in crime. "At that time, due to the participation of the "big circle gang", the price of heroin in Toronto dropped by 40% between 1990 and 1992. the above.
In the mid-1990s, a Canadian court sentenced Chun Wai Ng (Chun Wai Ng, transliteration), who was in charge of the Big Circle Gang, to 13 years in prison. He told the Canadian National Parole Board that he has extensive links with the drug trade in China and Thailand. These activities generated considerable profits, and the money was sent back to the Chinese brothers to buy coal mines and taxis.
It is reported that by 2003, the "big circle gang" was mainly responsible for exporting heroin from Southeast Asia to the United States. During this process, Xie Zhile served 9 years in prison in the United States and was released in 2006. He is still a member of the "big circle gang" and a Canadian citizen. His family is still in Canada, and he still has a passport issued by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, which is valid until next year.
Xie Zhile served 9 years in a U.S. prison
Xie Zhile formed the "Three Brothers" group in 2010 to take away the scattered drugsThe heroin smuggling activities were changed to large-scale bulk smuggling of "meth".
Douglas said that the "Three Brothers" group used the protection of the armed ethnic groups in northern Myanmar to produce perhaps the "best meth ever", and mass production caused drug prices to plummet, thus gaining many new customers.
As a result, Xie Zhile promoted the drug trade from plant drugs (Opium production in Myanmar has plummeted by 70% since 1996) to the production of chemical drugs in underground drug factories that bloom all over the world, especially in Australia, Japan, South Korea and the entire Southeast Asia region. Between 2013 and 2018, seizures of "meth" in East and Southeast Asia more than tripled.
He guarantees the interests of the customer. If the drug is seized by the police during the drug smuggling process, he will bear the resulting loss. The customer's deposit will continue to be valid, and another smuggling channel will be arranged again for delivery. Xie Zhile has made huge profits from the drug business. The Narcotics Office estimates that the annual revenue of the "Three Brothers" group is between 3.8 billion and 17.7 billion yuan, which is equivalent to the global revenue of the Montreal Financial Group last year.
The huge profits satisfy Xie Zhile's extravagant lifestyle. He owns a private jet and has a protected Muay Thai boxer. He once lost 88 million yuan a night while gambling in Macau.
Douglas said that although Canada continues to improve its methods of combating drugs and organized crime, Xie Zhile’s new methods have also rendered the old police methods of combating drugs useless, especially military methods to combat drugs. The effect is greatly reduced.
The rapid rise of the "Three Brothers" group has revealed that the lack of coordination between the state and government departments has allowed drugs to be produced in one country, exported to another country, and the proceeds laundered to a third country. In this regard, various countries, including Canada, are integrating the forces of multiple governments to jointly deal with the drug problem.
