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Drug lord dubbed ‘Asia’s El Chapo’ arrested in Amsterdam

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
January 24, 2021

AMSTERDAM: The alleged ringleader of Asia’s biggest crime syndicate and one of the world’s most wanted men has been arrested in the Netherlands.

Police had been chasing alleged drug kingpin Tse Chi Lop, 57, for years until his arrest by Dutch police on Friday acting on a request from Australia’s federal police.

In a statement, Australian authorities said a man “of significant interest” to law enforcement agencies had been detained. A police spokeswoman confirmed his name as Tse Chi Lop.

The Chinese-born Canadian citizen has been dubbed Asia’s “El Chapo” in reference to the nickname of Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, now serving a life sentence in a US prison.

Dutch police spokesman Thomas Aling confirmed that “a suspect who figured on Europol’s list of the most wanted persons” was arrested on Friday morning after landing at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

Aling would not say where the flight originated. “This person is currently incarcerated, waiting to see what will happen as it has to do with an Australian investigation,” he added.

“An extradition will take place at Australia’s request, and the matter will proceed like that. Australia would like to have this gentleman,” he added, calling the suspect “a big boy” for Canberra.

Tse Chi Lop has been named by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as the suspected leader of the Asian mega-cartel known as “Sam Gor”, a major producer and supplier of methamphetamines globally.

Sam Gor is believed to launder its billions in drug money through businesses springing up in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region including casinos, hotels and real estate.

Australia’s federal police said the arrest followed an operation that in 2012-13 nabbed 27 people linked to a crime syndicate spanning five countries.

The group were accused of importing “substantial quantities of heroin and methamphetamine” into Australia, long a lucrative market for drug traffickers.

As part of the 2012-13 raids across Melbourne, police seized AUS$9 million (US$7 million) worth of assets, including cash, designer handbags, casino chips and jewellery.

The arrest of Tse Chi Lop almost a decade after that operation’s launch is a major breakthrough for Australian authorities. The country’s attorney-general will now begin preparing a formal extradition request for the alleged drug lord to face trial.

Most of Asia’s meth comes from the “Golden Triangle” border areas between Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and southwest China which are pumping unprecedented quantities of synthetic drugs into global markets.

A UNODC study says Southeast Asia’s crime groups net more than $60 billion a year. The production of methamphetamine — either in tablet “yaba” form or the highly potent crystallised “ice” version — as well as ketamine and fentanyl take place primarily in Myanmar’s eastern Shan state.

Thailand in 2018 netted more than 515 million yaba tablets, 17 times the amount for the entire Mekong region a decade ago, the UNODC said.

 

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