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Asian ‘Chapo’ extradited to Australia for drug-related crimes

The alleged head of Asia’s largest crime cartel and one of the world’s most wanted criminals has been extradited to Australia and arrested on charges of drug possession. | Fountain: EFE | Photographer: AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE HANDOU

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One of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, Chinese-Canadian Tse Chi Lopbetter known as “Chapo” from Asiawas extradited this Thursday from the Netherlands to Australia, where he faces a life sentence for various drug-related offenses.

The 59-year-old has been compared to once-powerful Mexican Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín Guzmán Loera, nicknamed “El Chapo” for running the Asian mafia Sam Gore, or La Compañía, which has a strong presence in drug trafficking. the methamphetamine market in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tse Chi LopThe 59-year-old man, who was arrested in June 2021 in Amsterdam, is accused of participating in a plan to transport about twenty kilograms of cocaine between March 2012 and March 2013 between the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne, according to an Australian police statement. AFP).

According to the text, AFP indicates that the total value of this cache on the black market is about 4.4 million Australian dollars (3 million US dollars or 2.8 million euros).

Life imprisonment awaits

Thus, Tse Chi Lop He was charged with conspiracy to traffic drugs in large quantities, crimes for which he faces a life sentence if proven guilty.

Similarly, his second Briton of Chinese-British origin, Chang Chak Lee, 66, has already been prosecuted in Australia for the same crimes after being extradited last June from Thailand, where he was arrested in October 2020 at the request of the authorities of the overseas country.

AFP also alleges that this mafia used people as senders to launder money abroad and in Australiaincluding the illegal use of a bank account in the name of an Australian casino to fund the trafficking of these drugs.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicated in a report that Sam Gore reported at least US$8 billion (€7.517 million) in 2018 for selling methamphetamine, with authorities believed they were responsible for trafficking 70 percent of that drug. (EFE)


Source: RPP

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