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 are suspicious. Someone has left to drug trafficking that has come to an end, according to the target list and investigators from four countries. Other suspected leaders hail from Hong Kong, Macao, 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,' and what a 'direct challenge to the public security and health of the region.' The supply of the highly addictive drug has surged, causing the price to plummet in many countries. The syndicate is the major factor in the four-fold increase in region-wide meth trafficking in the past five years, the UNODC says. 'The word kingpin often gets thrown around, but there is no doubt it applies here.' 'Tse Chi Lop is in the league of El Chapo or Pablo Escobar,' said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific Representative for UNODC, referring to Latin America's most legendary narco-traffickers. The group is 'conservative' raking in US $ 8 billion (RM33.5 billion) a year and could be earning as much as $ 17.7 billion (RM74.13 billion) annually, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) In response to questions from Reuters, the AFP, the DEA and Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said they would not comment on investigations.Īccording 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 and trafficks the drug to countries stretching from Japan to New Zealand. Reuters what unable to contact Tse Chi Lop. 'Brother number three is target number one,' said one AFP officer. Tse as the 'Multinational CEO' of the Sam Gor syndicate identifies Tse as the 'Taiwan Syndicate.' Tse is 'believed to be the leader of the syndicate.' Reuters does not provide specific details of the cases. The Australian Federal Police (AFP), which has taken the lead in the spy investigation, has compiled a list of top syndicate members that identifies Tse as 'the senior leader of the Sam Gor syndicate.' The group, the list says, has been 'connected with or at least 13 cases' of drug trafficking since January 2015. The Syndicate is suspected of being a running member of the company as 'The Company.' Law enforcers also referred to as 'Sam Gor,' or Brother Number Three in Cantonese, after one of Tse's nicknames. The suspected syndicate leader is Tse Chi Lop, 55, of ex-convict who formerly lived in Toronto and has moved between Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan in recent years, according to counter-narcotics officers from four countries as well as law enforcement documents reviewed by Reuters. The largest-ever task force organized crime in Asia has identified a long-time drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that dominates the US $ 70 billion-a -year (RM293.17 billion-a-year) Asia-Pacific drug trade.

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