Sandher Family Trust

Sandher Family Trust is a straw company in Australia, used to move assets. The Sandhers own property through Sandher Family Trust in Miami, New York, San Diego, Yuma, (Yuma is a key cartel transshipment point) and the sold restaurant in Orange County. The Sandher Family Trust owns a $5m suite in the Palm Jumeriah area, Dubai. They own a $8.9m mansion in Upper Lonsdale, North Vancouver, and a $12.5m mansion off Marine Drive. Bir and Sukhwinder Sandher travel to the lower mainland several times a month for KTF events in Surrey.

The homes often contain guests like cousin and KTF boss Arsh Dalla (Arshdeep Singh Gill). Arsh Dalla is under 24/7 RCMP watch as a legitimate hit target. Many would see him dead. Sandher's name has been mentioned by members of the Bishnoi Gang. The Bishnoi Gang have been known to be forming an alliance with the Arellano Felix Group and the Cartel de Jalisco de Nueva Generacion. Both are rivals to the Sinaloa Cartel.

In 2018 Sandher drug running helicopters N-214AU and N-214EB were registered by proxy through the bank of Utah in Las Vegas. True registrant was Tenru Aviation, a division of Sandher Family Trust. The Sandhers set up an aircraft ownership trust to hide their non-US resident ownership. This isn't legal. Each beneficiary under an aircraft registration trust must either be a U.S. citizen or resident alien. Non-citizens with a share of control of a trust greater than 25% cannot register aircraft in the U.S. Sandhers sold their Bell 214-ST helicopters after the near bust in 2018.

The Sandher Family Trust property is in Lyrup, South Australia. Lyrup is a village of 350, 267 km north-east of Adelaide. Nearest town is Berri, with a population of 5,000. The property is a vineyard, which is rented out to a local winery. The area is near the Murray River, in the Riverland wine growing region. The property was purchased by the Sandher Family Trust in 2001. A wire transfer into the ANZ bank in Berri from an associate of KTF founder Jagtar Singh Tara from Habib Bank in Lahore Pakistan in the amount of $3m AUD was flagged. The wire transfer into an account in Chase Bank put Australian authorities on alert. Oz authorities forced a sale of 200 acres of agricultural land in Donnybrook, purchased by Sandher Family Trust in 2004.

In 2005, Bir Singh Sander and Sukhwinder Sandher were denied entry at Sydney airport due to their adverse security assessment by Australian Security Intelligence. The Sandhers are subject to an entry ban. While Babbar Khalsa and the KTF are not listed as terrorist entities in Australia, some of their members are designated terrorists and may not enter Australia. The Australian Taxation Office conducted a tax audit on Sandher Family Trust in 2023. The ATO cracked down on family trusts owned by non-residents as many are used to launder money.

Sandher financier Sami El-Helou has been on a terror watch list in Australia since 2018 due to his ties Iranian heroin dealer Naji Sharifi Zindashti. Like the Sandhers he is banned from Australia.

Benson Law LLP has represented the Sandhers for many years.

Robert Tonsoo is the go to lawyer for property transactions by the Sandhers. The Sandhers sold a $5.2m (USD) restaurant at 4241 Macarthur Blvd in Newport Beach, California in Jan 2022. It was a 7,000 sq ft restaurant on a 0.69 acre lot. Sinaloa Cartel operative Carlos Raygozaparedes was entitled a janitor. Raygozaparedes and Edgar Alfonso Lamas were busted in 2021 with 821 pounds of meth, 190 pounds of cocaine and 20.5 pounds of fentanyl.