Tse Chi Lop, one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives and a man who’s been described as “Asia’s El Chapo”, was arrested in Amsterdam on Friday. vice.com/en/article/akd…
“The 57-year-old, Chinese-born Canadian is alleged to have headed up an international drug syndicate known as “The Company” or “Sam Gor”: an organisation that dominated Asia-Pacific’s $70 billion-a-year drug trade across the region, including Australia, New Zealand and Japan”
“In 1996, Tse was arrested in the US by the FBI for his role in a drug smuggling operation bringing in heroin from Asia's Golden Triangle.” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
“He served nine years in prison were he made connections with a notorious 14K Triad boss Wan Kuok Ko - who goes by the name 'Broken Tooth'.”
In December, the Treasury Department blacklisted an entity in Palau called Palau China Hung-Mun Association, a non-profit organization seeking to promote relations between Palau and China, because it is associated with Wan Kuok-koi. islandtimes.org/us-blacklist-a…
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This is what happens when you let the far right control the narrative with police. Police are conditioned by Fox News and Facebook disinformation that BLM and Democrats are the enemy and the only rebuttal they see is “Defund the Police.” This is not how you win an information war
Racism in police forces aren’t a new problem, so making a real change will require new tactics.
Studies have shown that police who work to build relationships in neighborhoods see better results in lowering crime, but “Encouragement is not a “one-way” process”
Capital One fined for violating U.S. anti-money laundering law, failed to file “thousands of suspicious activity reports” and “thousands of Currency Transaction Reports” with respect to a business unit known as the Check Cashing Group. reuters.com/article/us-cap…
“The $422 billion-asset admitted that it was negligent in failing to file the reports on roughly 50,000 transactions totaling more than $16 billion.” americanbanker.com/news/capital-o…
“The civil money penalty totaled $390 million, but Capital One was credited $100 million for a penalty that it paid to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2018.”
The Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble is suing Google over claims the tech giant is "unfairly rigging its search algorithm" to preference YouTube videos in its search results. businessinsider.com/rumble-sues-go…
“Rumble has become popular with conservatives in the past year or so, encouraged by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes and others. The company says it has more than 2 million creators using the site”