Sources say Sami El-Helou is under extreme pressure. Sami El-Helou's exact issue is speculation, but the cop heat on him has been turned up. The U.S. might have finally unsealed an indictment, or perhaps its related to the Pahalgam attack. A problem for a nervous El-Helou is a problem for the Sandher crime family. Time shall tell. There has been a rise in eyeballs searching out Sami El-Helou here. Something is surely up.
Moscow based Sami El-Helou and his Brightway is a major clearing house for dirty money from global players. Sami El-Helou has deep ties with Hezbollah, and Pakistani intelligence.
A man from Ahmedabad unknowingly filmed the Pahalgam Islamist terror attack, unaware of the chaos unfolding around him. The attack killed 26. The Resistance Front (TRF), a terrorist group seen as a proxy for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has claimed responsibility.
El-Helou's ties to Hezbollah go back to his parents, who were hawaladars in Brampton. Hezbollah gets much of its funding through the heroin trade - Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hezbollah has close links to Pakistani intelligence services, bedfellows of the KTF. (Khalistan Tiger Force) Before becoming partners with the Sinaloa Cartel, Bir Singh Sandher also had deep ties with both Hezbollah and Pakistani intelligence. Sami El-Helou's family worked for Babbar Khalsa, and that's how El-Helou got involved with Bir Singh Sandher in the late 90's. Sami El-Helou handles more than half of Sinaloa Cartel dirty money, and reliable sources say up to 70%. That is tens of billions.
El-Helou is an Emirati citizen who immigrated to Canada with his parents Hamid and Fatima. He studied pharmacy at University of Waterloo and opened Brightway Pharmacy in Brampton under the Guardian Drugs banner. He lost his license to practice after getting busted for selling drugs. El-Helou left Canada in 2013. El-Helou's family were smugglers in gold and other commodities, as well as being hawaladars. Sami El-Helou has taken it to the next level. He is a crypto trader using Brightway Financial LLP, based in the UAE. El-Helou washes crypto of rogue players. Dirty crypto is cashed out at a Moscow crypto exchange, Garantex being one, into a Russian Bank, wired into an account in a different Russian Bank under the name of a different entity, then used to buy clean assets. El-Helou uses accounts at Sberbank, Gazprombank, and VTB. He operates freely.
Lyudmila Shcherbakova is proxy owner of Brightway on behalf of Sami El-Helou in Russia. She is President of Velpharm Group and listed as one of Russia's richest women. (info@brightway.ru) Here. The Enderby precursors came from partner chemical companies of Velpharm in India and China. Shcherbakova fronts Velpharm, while El-Helou pulls strings from behind the curtain. Velpharm supplies drug making equipment and chemicals through its partners in India, China, and Thailand. Gurtaj Singh Sandher met with Lyudmila Shcherbakova and Sami El-Helou while he was in Moscow.
Sami El-Helou hasn't left his guilded Moscow bolthole since August 2024. He sold his Gulfstream jet, and bought an Embraer Praetor 600 instead, this so as not to be hindered by Russian sanctions. A new Embraer Praetor 600 jet starts around $21m USD. El-Helou has 3 different passports, with 3 different names he can travel under. One of these is a Mexican passport.
His jet waits for a destination at Vnukovo airport.
If his Gulfstream ever broke down in Russia, Sami would be screwed for parts. Those are only available on the Chinese black market at huge cost and long wait times. With a Brazilian jet, there are no such issues. The US heat on El-Helou, once large, has tapered off. El-Helou is safe in Moscow.
An FBI 'most wanted' notice for Sami El-Helou never materialized. It always may.
Sami El-Helou has a luxurious office on the 91st floor (Suite 9124) in the east tower of Moscow's Federation tower. Brightway Capital Partners has a staff of 42. El-Helou's primary business involves working with the FSB to evade economic sanctions by disbursing money to Kremlin assets in the west to buy high demand goods and electronics which are then trans-shipped through Dubai to Moscow. Russian women that work for El-Helou are expendable and very expendable by age 30. "Be Silent, or be Silenced' is the motto they live and die by. 3 women have disappeared over 5 years. They are silenced after learning too much.
El-Helou has been hiding in Moscow with Russian wife Natalia. The heat on El-Helou increased in Dubai. He was tipped off of an assassination plot so he left the UAE. A competitor in the business wants him dead. One of El-Helou's biggest competitors in the money laundering arena is the Altaf Khamani network, which is similar in scope and size. If one were to guess who wants Sami El-Helou dead, it would likely be the Altaf Khamani network. Khamani was indicted in June 2015 and arrested in September 2016 in Panama by the DEA. In a plea bargain, he bought 68 months and a $250k fine. Khanani was released on July 13, 2020 and operates from the UAE again in the clear open. The UAE is a well known destination for illicit cash.
Kyiv offices were located on the top floor.
The US has its sights set on $15m of Sami El-Helou real estate in Ukraine. Brightway LLC was sanctioned by multiple countries for acting as a conduit bypassing sanctions on Iran. El-Helou simply operates Brightway in Moscow as a different identity. Sami El-Helou operated with impunity in Ukraine. Storm clouds appeared in 2018. His Moscow residency and collusion with Russia meant that by 2019 he was under constant watch as a security threat.
El-Helou left Ukraine and was declared persona non grata. His fixer in Kyiv is Svitlana Bronska. She now holds Brightway Ukraine for him.
El-Helou had 15 apartments he was renting in Kyiv - only 2 of which have sold. His 'Brightway' is subject to multiple sanctions worldwide. He simply changed the name slightly and continued business in Russia. Sami El-Helou's luxury flat in Ukraine remains unsold. His residence is for sale for $5m US.
A case was reopened in America and involves Sami El-Helou. Information came about from the arrest of Ismael Zambada Garcia (El-Mayo) in July 2024. The 2 caged chapito get a deal from the U.S. for turning in El-Mayo. Its business as usual for the 2 remaining chapitos. Sami El-Helou and associates, including Gurtaj Singh Sandher, could face extradition to the U.S. Here
Sami El-Helou owns a luxury penthouse in Dubai Creek Harbour worth $15m, and owns a luxury home in Millennium Park Village (House 17) on the outskirts of Moscow. Sami El-Helou become friends with Gurtaj Sandher, now 31. Its through Sami El-Helou that Gurtaj Sandher and Prabtaj Sandher got introduced to Sinaloa cartel connections. In order to do business with the Sinaloa Cartel the Sandher boys needed to be introduced and vetted. Sandher Family Trust owns a $5m suite in the Palm Jumeriah area.
A real estate rental company in Dubai is owned 50% by El-Helou and 50% by Sandher Family Trust. Elan Shoreline Holiday Home Rental was established in 2008. Sadaf 3, JBR, Elan Shoreline. https://elansuites.com contact@elansuites.com
Gurtaj Sandher was a guest at El-Helou's exclusive residence in the suburbs of Moscow. Tarnvir Sandher, Gurtaj Sandher, and Prabtaj Sandher have all travelled to Dubai for sit downs with El-Helou.
Sandher greed is limitless. They acquired the former tower ranch on Black Mountain in 2020. The cover story for the massive drug lab bunker at 4502 Pyman Road is cherry orchards. Here
