La saisie a été réalisée après que les « les services spéciaux ont reçu des informations de collègues étrangers sur l’intention d’une organisation criminelle sud-américaine d’établir une voie de contrebande de cocaïne en Russie », ont indiqué les douanes.

Les douanes russes et les services de sécurité (FSB) «ont trouvé 820 kilogrammes de cocaïne dans des conteneurs de bananes» lors de leur arrivée en Russie.

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VANCOUVER — A senior Indo-Canadian gangster from an ultra-violent British Columbia–based fentanyl trafficking gang with ties to Latin cartels, Chinese Triads, and Hezbollah was taken down in a stunning U.S. government sting that saw a thick-accented Chinese narco casually promise an undercover agent at a Vancouver café that he could ship 100 kilograms of fentanyl precursors per month from Vancouver to Los Angeles, using his trucking company fronted by an Indo-Canadian associate.

The case is detailed in a sprawling DEA probe spanning Turkey, Mexico City, Dubai, Australia, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles — all captured in a 29-page affidavit with scenes so surreal they could rival a Hollywood script, complete with underworld nicknames like “Burger,” “Queen,” and “Darth Vader.”

At the center is Opinder Singh Sian, a Canadian national and longtime Lower Mainland underworld figure who survived targeted shootings and reportedly leads the Brothers Keepers gang — a key proxy for the Sinaloa cartel in Canada, interoperable with other Latin American cartels, Chinese Communist Party chemical suppliers, and working alongside the Kinahans, a notorious Irish crime family now based in Dubai and closely linked to Hezbollah finance networks.

Sian has been arrested in Arizona and indicted in a sweeping U.S. case that underscores British Columbia’s critical role as a global trafficking hub, bringing together Mexican cartels and Chinese precursor suppliers that operate with near impunity in Vancouver but are increasingly the focus of elite U.S. law enforcement.

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Vancouver has long been known as a hub of criminal drug trafficking and new U.S. court documents are shedding some light on how the trade works.

According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, Surrey gangster Opinder Singh Sian was at the centre of a vast conspiracy to import precursor chemicals from China and export narcotics through the port of Los Angeles to Australia.

Sian was well known in Vancouver organized crime circles.

He was linked to the Brothers Keepers and survived a shooting in 2008, as well as another in 2011.

In 2022, he became involved in a plot originating in Ankara, Turkey.

According to court documents, a special agent with the DEA’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Group 48 (HIDTA 48), which investigates large-scale drug trafficking organizations, was brought in to investigate the drug trafficking.

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Le voilier a été intercepté alors qu’il faisait route vers l’Australie. Cette trajectoire s’inscrit dans ce qui est décrit comme une route classique du narcotrafic, reliant le marché émetteur sud-américain aux consommateurs australiens.

Le capitaine allemand du navire ainsi qu’un passager hollandais ont été placés en rétention douanière.

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