Evidence of the crime of Chechirop, an Asian drug king, captured at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on the 22nd. Reuters Yonhap News
The’Asian Drug King’, who ran the world’s largest drug organization and traded drugs worth 77 trillion won per year, was finally caught with the cooperation of the police.
The Dutch police announced on the 23rd (local time) that Interpol had arrested Chechirop, 56, a Chinese-Canadian wanted for nomination at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol the day before. A spokesman for the Dutch police said on the day that “at the request of the Australian Federal Police, we arrested Che and will soon deliver recruits to Australia.” After more than 10 years of pursuing the body, Australian police issued an arrest warrant in 2019 and asked Interpol to arrange it. According to Reuters, about 20 organizations around the world participated in the arrest operation.
Che is the head of an Asian drug trafficking organization called’Company’. It is suspected of supplying drugs worth $70 billion (about 77.35 trillion won) annually to the Asia-Pacific region. According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, the sales revenue of metaamphetamine (methamphetamine) alone is estimated to have reached 17 billion dollars (about 18.78 trillion won) in 2018. Australian police estimate that 70% of the drugs circulating illegally in the country come from organisations. It is known that in recent years based in Toronto, Canada, Che has been trafficking drugs to and from Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The organization was found to be active all over the world, including Korea.
The BBC said, “The scale of the business is comparable to Joaquin’El Chapo’ (Spanish meaning short man) Guzman, who was notorious for being the world’s largest drug king. Guzman, the head of the Mexican drug organization Sinaloa Cartel, has been jailed three times during his jail and then repeatedly arrested, and is now imprisoned in the United States.
Che, also known by the nickname’Sam Gor’ (meaning his third brother in Cantonese), was arrested in the United States for drug trafficking in the 1990s and was imprisoned for nine years. Australian media rated the arrest of Che as the federal police’s greatest achievement in the last 20 years.
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