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 DEAâs 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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