1-19-11 Many Red Guards arrested and tortured after the Cultural Revolution fled overseas and joined or formed new triads. One such major gang was the Big Circle Gang known in Chinese as Tai Huen Chai. It was created in Hong Kong. It operates in several continents, mainly in Canada. The Big Circle Gang specializes in narcotics trade. The serious security threat posed by triads in Canada was investigated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Security Service. In a joint report these institutions described how very rich Hong Kong Chinese tycoons close to Beijing for years, along with relatives of China's political leaders and the Chinese Intelligence Service, colluded with "financial ventures" in Canada that helped conceal criminal and intelligence activities.
Now consider this. Over 50 percent of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China is by overseas Chinese of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. All three are claimed as part of mainland China. The overseas Chinese in the rest of Southeast Asia invest just a fraction of the amount invested by these three regions. Also, all the criminal subversive activity to promote the aims of the PLA is implemented by overseas Chinese and triads located outside China. Among such activities is the arms supply on behalf of the PLA to Islamist and other terrorists including those in India. This has been stated in a position paper submitted to US Congress by its former Director of the Task Force against Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Yossef Bodansky. -Dr. Rajinder Puri https://www.boloji.com/articles/10440/who-rules-china
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6-4-2014 Tai Huen Chai (大圈仔)
Tai Huen, which in Chinese means ‘big circle’. Chai means young male.
Due to their low level of education, these Tai Huen Chai mainly took up heavy physical work, accepting low salaries. Later on a number of them, who used to be Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution or were veterans from the Vietnam War, became involved in violent crimes, like looting or killing. The gang they established was called the Gang of Tai Huen. https://linj1990.wordpress.com
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5-11-19 A panel of experts estimated that C$5.3bn ($4bn, £3bn) was laundered through real estate in the province of British Columbia, with most of it funnelling through Vancouver, its largest and most expensive city….Using economic analysis and modelling, the panel estimated that across all industries, about C$46.7bn was laundered across the country in 2018….
former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German hypothesised that Canada in general, and Vancouver in particular, became attractive to international organised crime for a number of reasons.
Canada is attractive because the country's justice system has made it difficult to catch money laundering, German believes. It has some of the most lax financial reporting rules in the developed world, and few police and prosecutorial resources devoted to white collar crime….
German notes that El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel, mainland Chinese gang the Big Circle Boys, and Iranian gangs with footholds in both Dubai and the Persian diaspora in North America all have deep ties in the city of Vancouver….
Money launderers often rely on a hodgepodge of lawyers, shell corporations and intermediaries to be the "face" of their illegal transactions.
In the real estate industry, this means criminal organisations may invest in a development property, paying construction bills in cash, or even loan themselves a mortgage through a shell corporation….
"We are complicit in all of those crimes... drug trafficking, human trafficking, corruption - we're part of that, because of our weak laws," lawyer Comeau says. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48231558
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10-10-13
The possible head member of the Shui Fong Triad, Lai Tong Sang, has been deported from Vancouver, British Columbia, back to Macau, China.
He was arrested after having a ‘contract’ put on him by a rival Triad group known as the 14k Triad, evidence which police gathered from a wire-taped phone conversation.
Lai is the suspected “dragon’s head” (leader) of the Shui Fong (which translates to the “water room gang”), and his reputation is being of such, from the violent nature of the gang, as well his estate having been shot at in a drive-by shooting in 1997, which was the result of a war for power in the Triads in Macau, that rippled into Vancouver where the Canadian members seize territory. https://gangtabs.wordpress.com/category/big-circle-boys/
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5-16-19
According to allegations made by Canadian law enforcement officials between 1991 and 2014, Tam is a heroin importer, a chemical drug lab operator and a “known loan shark” with a history of violence.
He’s also been fighting deportation for over 25 years. And according to recent court filings, Tam is believed to be residing in a luxury Richmond, B.C. condo. He also has alleged ties to B.C.’s casino industry and to the province’s multibillion-dollar real estate money-laundering problem. If true, these claims suggest Tam could be one of the architects of the so-called “Vancouver Model” of transnational organized crime. https://globalnews.ca/news/5277136/alleged-gangster-bc-public-inquiry-money-laundering/
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6-5-18 Criminal syndicates that control chemical factories in China’s booming Guangdong province are shipping narcotics, including fentanyl, to Vancouver, washing the drug sales in British Columbia’s casinos and high-priced real estate, and transferring laundered funds back to Chinese factories to repeat this deadly trade cycle, a Global News investigation shows.
The flow of narcotics and chemical precursors — and a rising death count in western Canada caused by synthetic opioids — is driven by sophisticated organized crime groups known as Triads….
Langdale’s report explains how Chinese criminals exploit weak links in global regulation. In one example, Triads deal with the state of North Korea, and Latin American drug cartels, to run a shadow economy based on the trading of narcotics, counterfeit goods, and illegal migrants.
Similarly, the regions of Vancouver, Hong Kong and Macau have formed a black market financed by intricate Chinese underground banking networks. According to the Vancouver Model report, the underground banks are at the heart of Chinese drug trafficking crime.
These secret banks have developed for centuries on China’s southern coast, police intelligence reports say. They consist of family members spread across Chinese communities worldwide. They can move money, drugs and commodities around the world, without having to send funds across national borders. The banks maintain reserves of various currencies at locations worldwide, taking deposits in one area and paying out withdrawals in another.
In order to function, the underground banks need financial facilitators, and the Triads have used some lawyers, bankers, casino operators and gambling junket operators in Hong Kong, Macau and Vancouver, Langdale’s report says.
The junket operators are organized crime lenders. Traditionally, the junkets have laundered Asian heroin money and facilitated capital flight from China, by extending loans to Chinese high-rollers to purchase chips in Macau casinos. The VIPs can cash out chips to buy global real estate. They pay back gambling loans in China with small interest fees, allowing them to illicitly send legitimate wealth abroad, or launder ill-gotten gains. The junket lenders have migrated from Macau to Vancouver casinos, B.C. government documents show, bringing many VIP gamblers with them.
Langdale says that Australia’s government is worried about Chinese capital flight, because Austrac can’t differentiate between legitimate and criminal money pouring into Australian assets. His report outlines a worst case for Australia: “Possible scenario. Sydney as a regional hub for Chinese transnational crime (the Vancouver Model.)”
The model’s criminal elements, according to the report, are:
• “Traffic illegal drugs from Guangdong and Latin America”
• “North American illegal drug dealing networks supplied by Chinese methamphetamines and precursor chemicals”
• “Launder money into high-end real estate (funded by Chinese) capital flight, and launder money through the high-roller tables in casinos”
• “High rollers used Canadian casinos, junket operations, and investment in Canadian real estate”
• “Use banks, money transfer businesses to shift money to and from China and other countries (including) Mexico and Columbia.”
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1-13-20 drug dealers in London and other big cities find that their markets are saturated with too many suppliers fighting over not enough customers. So they expand the geography of their operation.
But that means they need more people working for them out of town and they need to be firmly controlled.
Tony says: ‘Maintaining that control means the potential for violence is greater. These young people have to be coaxed and coerced to go out with the drugs, sell them quickly and get the money back to the central hub.
‘They are kept in check by fear. Because if someone oversteps the mark, and your reputation is that you will stab people if they let you down, then if you don’t carry out the threat, how do you keep control from that point onwards? It becomes a vicious circle. If one gang controls its drug markets through brutality, the others do the same in order not to look weak.’ There is plenty of evidence of this violent culture in Southend.
A young woman called Chloe tells me: ‘There are kids nowadays who walk around the town centre with a bag of drugs, a knife and a knuckleduster and think it’s appropriate — and these kids are 12 or 13.
‘You see crackheads everywhere, drug dealers, people carrying knives. It’s a horrible place to live.’
A young man called Kofi admits to carrying a weapon after people from London offered him the chance to sell drugs. ‘I’ve had to because of certain threats. I’m not looking to use it but if my life’s threatened, then I will. In a place like this, trouble seems to find anyone and everyone.’
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