A criminal gang boss, called Asia’s largest drug dealer, was caught.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced that the Dutch police had arrested Che Chi Rob, 57, a Chinese-Canadian national at the Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport on the 22nd (local time), CNN reported.
In a statement, AFP said, “Chechirop’s organization has imported and spread illegal drugs into Australia over the past few years,” and “raised money by laundering the proceeds of crimes made around the world.”
The Netherlands is expected to deport Che Chirop to Australia.
Australian police have been conducting international cooperative investigations to arrest Che Chirop.
Australia sees Che Chirop as the head of the Chinese drug organization Sam Gor, the largest drug dealer in Asian history.
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He was the top target of arrest as a notorious drug dealer worldwide. Compared to Mexico and Colombia’s El Chapo and Pablo Escobar, he is also called the Asian drug king.
The UN Agency for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, “Che Chirop is a big-scale drug dealer, and the arrest should not be underestimated.”
In Asia, the distribution of methamphetamine is estimated to be between $30 billion and $61 billion (approximately 33 to 67 trillion won), and Che Chirop’s organization is the largest among them, CNN reported.
The organization is known to produce and distribute drugs in Myanmar as an enterprise. This is because Myanmar is suitable for illegal activities to avoid the police surveillance due to the long civil war and private militia organizations.
It is reported that Myanmar manufactures pre-drug substances and distributes them to neighboring countries including Bangkok, but is also reported to be delivered to remote locations such as Australia and Japan.
The organization was found to be active all over the world, including Korea, the UK, Canada and the US.
Samgo is similar to the Chinese criminal group’Tripod’, which is mainly active in Asia and North America, but is said to move quickly based on mobile rather than this.
The organization was revealed in 2016 when a Taiwanese drug dealer was arrested in Myanmar.
In 2018, crime proceeds are estimated to be 8 billion to 17.7 billion dollars (approximately 8 trillion to 19 trillion won), and it is reported that Southeast Asian casinos are used as a money laundering window.
Che Chirop had a multi-billion dollar drug business in Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia, but it wasn’t revealed until Reuters reported in 2019.
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