The largest-ever task force assembled to fight organised crime in Asia has identified a long-time drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that police say dominates the US$70 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.
According to interviews with regional law enforcers from eight countries, as well as a review of law enforcement documents, the syndicate produces vast quantities of high-grade methamphetamine in Myanmar and trafficks the drug to countries stretching from Japan to New Zealand. The group is “conservatively” raking in US$8 billion a year and could be earning as much as US$17.7 billion annually, according to an estimate by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime .
Tse has not been arrested. Counter-narcotics agents said they suspect he has long been aware he is under surveillance. So far, at least one senior member of the syndicate has been arrested, according to investigators and police documents. At the core of the syndicate are at least five triad groups that originated in Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan but which have a global reach, AFP officers said. These are the 14K, Wo Shing Wo, Sun Yee On, the Big Circle Gang and the Bamboo Union.
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