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March 5, 2021 Share Given the estimated $70 billion being made each year in Asia’s drug trade, regional experts say recent arrests of two key drug figures are seen as unlikely to dent the long-term flow of narcotics. Dutch police said in January they had arrested Tse Chi Lop, allegedly the leader of the Asian drug syndicate known as The Company or Sam Gor (Brother No. 3 in Cantonese). It is alleged to have made tens of billions of dollars each year off drugs in the region. Then in February, it was announced that Lee Chung Chak, suspected of being a second leader of the syndicate, had been arrested. ....
A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the $70 billion annual Asia-Pacific drug trade. The October arrest of Hong Kong citizen Lee Chung Chak in Bangkok preceded last month's high-profile arrest in the Netherlands of Tse Chi Lop, a China-born Canadian national who police suspect is the top leader of the syndicate, also called "The Company". Lee, 65, is a former prison mate of Tse's suspected of being involved in drug trafficking for four decades. ....
[Reuters] Thailand’s counter-narcotics police chief on Tuesday confirmed the arrest in Thai territory of a suspected senior leader with a triad that, according to law enforcement sources, dominates a multi-billion-dollar illicit drugs trade in the Asia-Pacific region. The suspect, Hong Kong s Lee Chung Chak, was arrested in October but is trying to block his extradition to Australia through an appeal in the courts, Lt. Gen. Montri Yimyaem, commander of the Thai police’s Narcotics Suppression Bureau, told BenarNews. “The AFP sought our cooperation to extradite him to Australia based on an extradition treaty. We arrested him according to a Thai court order,” Montri said, referring to the Australian Federal Police. ....