{"id":18110,"date":"2021-01-23T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18110"},"modified":"2021-01-24T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T13:59:03","slug":"tse-chi-lop-alleged-asian-drug-lord-arrested-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/01\/23\/tse-chi-lop-alleged-asian-drug-lord-arrested-in-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tse Chi Lop: Alleged Asian drug lord arrested in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><b class=\"css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0\">Police in the Netherlands have arrested the alleged head of one of the world&#8217;s biggest drugs gangs, on a warrant issued by Australia.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Tse Chi Lop &#8211; a Chinese-born Canadian national &#8211; is said to be the head of The Company, which dominates a $70bn illegal drugs market across Asia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Listed as one of the world&#8217;s most wanted fugitives, Mr Tse was detained at Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Australia will now seek his extradition to face trial there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The Australian Federal Police (AFP) believe The Company, also known as the Sam Gor Syndicate, is responsible for up to 70% of all illegal drugs entering the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The 56-year-old has been compared to the Mexican drug lord Joaquin &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzman because of the scale of his alleged enterprise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"unordered-list-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<div class=\"css-1pzprxn-BulletListContainer e5tfeyi3\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li><a class=\"css-1xgj2ad-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-35271257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Mexico&#8217;s drug kingpin fell victim to his own legend<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Australian police had reportedly been tracking Mr Tse for more than a decade before he was arrested on Friday as he was about to board a flight to Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>A police statement, which did not name Mr Tse, said\u00a0<a class=\"css-1xgj2ad-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.gov.au\/news-media\/media-releases\/canadian-national-arrested-netherlands-afp-arrest-warrant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the arrest warrant was issued in 2019<\/a>, with police in the Netherlands acting on an Interpol notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>&#8220;He was already on the most-wanted list and he was detained based on intelligence we received,&#8221; a Dutch police spokesman of the arrest Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><a class=\"css-1xgj2ad-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/meth-syndicate\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters published a special investigation into Mr Tse in 2019<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; describing him as &#8220;Asia&#8217;s most wanted man&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The news agency cited UN estimates as saying the syndicate&#8217;s revenue from methamphetamine sales alone could have been as high as $17bn in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The effort to arrest Mr Tse, Operation Kungur, involved about 20 agencies from continents across the globe with AFP taking the lead, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1183892709708357636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Mr Tse is rumoured to have moved between Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>He previously spent nine years in prison after being arrested on drug trafficking charges in the US in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Australian media described his arrest as the &#8220;most important&#8221; 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