Narco nexus: Indo-Canadian drug lord held in US; ISI-China-Khalistan links found

NEW DELHI: The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has busted an ISI-China-Canada linked planetary cause cartel and arrested a notorious Indo-Canadian gangster, Opinder Singh Sian aka Thanos, moving a planetary fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking ringing from British Columbia.According to tribunal documents reviewed by TOI, Sian was arrested successful Arizona connected June 27 aft his relation successful smuggling methamphetamine to Australia and chemicals for fentanyl into the US via Canada was established. The investigation, which kicked disconnected successful 2022, and a precocious unsealed affidavit successful a US court, has revealed that Sian, had operational ties with chemic suppliers linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) too the Sinaloa cartel successful Mexico.The DEA had mounted an undercover cognition to trap Sian aft his dubious ties came to fore successful 2021-2022 successful the aftermath of a preliminary enquiry conducted regarding a extremity from a Turkish quality agency. Singh was astatine the clip a known elder subordinate of the notorious ISI-backed 'Brothers Keepers' pack which mostly has ft soldiers from Punjab successful India, galore of whom are Canadian citizens. The gang, which has lent its enactment to the origin of alleged Khalistan connected galore occasions, was besides seen progressive successful commemorations rallies successful enactment of Air India bombing mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar and others, sources said.

According to Canadian police, the radical deals successful bulk trafficking of cocaine, MDMA, heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine too arms trafficking, murder, extortion and equipped robbery. In his aboriginal days, Sian was wounded successful a shooting successful Aug 2008 that near his person Gurpreet Sidhu dormant and survived different bid connected his beingness successful May 2011, marking his accelerated emergence successful Canada's underworld. The now-released tribunal documents authorities that Sian had arranged for a gathering betwixt a confidential US undercover source, known arsenic "Queen", and a Chinese cartel antheral named Peter Peng Zhou successful Vancouver successful 2023.

Zhou, ran a trucking institution with an Indo-Canadian associate, revealed that helium could "receive fentanyl precursor chemicals from China into Vancouver and "send 100 kilos of chemicals per period to Los Angeles" utilizing his trucking company.Sian and Queen, the DEA said, held aggregate meetings and were successful interaction done chat exertion Threema to coordinate aggregate deliveries. Specifically, Sian made 4 drops of methamphetamine (over 500 pounds) successful confederate California earlier the DEA moved for his arrest. The DEA agents were subsequently capable to place aggregate characters progressive successful the network, which ranged from Turkey to Dubai. Sian, the DEA submitted, was besides recovered linked to the notorious Kinahan transgression household which is linked to Hezbollah.