Kevin Tate denied parole - Gaétan Gosselin

Kevin Tate, Stanley Minuty, Edrick Antoine and Olivier Gay.

Tate, 39, was part of a group of the reds, Unit 44, from the Bo-gars. They watched Gaetan Gosselin for two days before killing him in front of his home. Gaétan Gosselin was Raynald Desjardins' best friend; Gosselin took care of his business and family after his arrest for the murder of Salvatore Montagna on Dec 21, 2011.

In Sept 2022, cops from the Sûreté du Québec met with the detainees, including Tate, to tell them that there were contracts on their heads. Another gang conflict may be responsible but all expect Raynald Desjardins to take his bloody gangland revenge. That surely applies to these four. The parole board wasn't impressed with Tate; “Your Case Management Team (CMT) believes that you pose a real threat to others. You present a low potential for social reintegration and an unacceptable risk to society." As for the boss, Desjardins will be out soon as another statutory date passes. See ----->Five plead guilty in plot to murder Rizzuto rivals See ----->Raynald Desjardins returned to jail

Mohammed Adada - threat with knife = 1 day in jail

Frequent flyer Mohammed Abada threatened a mall security guard with death by his knife in August after being told to move along. Adada was arrested and released the same day by Vancouver cops. He then failed to show up for his court appearance. He was arrested again in November. Adada pleaded guilty Dec. 3 to assault with a weapon and was 'sentenced' to one day in jail with time served and 12 months' probation. Adada has convictions for five separate assaults since May 2021.

Migos rapper Takeoff shot dead - update

Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, has been charged with Takeoff's murder. Takeoff, Kirsnick Khari Ball, was killed when gunfire erupted outside of a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley on Nov. 1. Two others were hit by gunfire but survived. Takeoff is being described as an innocent bystander to a high stakes craps game gone bad. Bail for Clark was set at $2m.

Migos rapper Takeoff is dead after a shooting outside a bowling alley in Houston. Kirshnik Khari Ball, 28, was a member of the platinum selling hip hop trio Migos along with his uncle Quavo and cousin Offset. He was killed at a private party, reportedly at a game of craps.

Attempted hit on Davide Barberio - Update

Souverain was already in custody on other gun charges.

Gahens Lee Souverain, 23, is charged with attempted murder in the Laval shooting of Mafia strongman Davide Barberio. Barberio, 42, was shot Sept 21, 2021. A gunman fired twice towards Barberio, using a 9mm with a silencer.

Barberio recovered.

After hitting Barberio in the abdomen, the gunman fled in a dark colored Honda CRV with stolen license plates. Barberio worked under Giuseppe De Vito, an influential mafia boss who was poisoned by cyanide on July 8, 2013 while serving time in a federal pen. Barberio left the Calabrians in order to join the Sicilians of the Rizzuto clan. His influence is significant, in May 2021 top Hells Angels David Lefebvre, Martin Robert, Stéphane Plouffe and Michel Lamontagne met with mafiosos Francesco Del Balso, Marco Pizzi, Davide Barberio and Steven D'Adario at the Prima Luna restaurant. New HA Michel Lamontagne celebrated his birthday in the company of some big names in Montreal organized crime. Lamontagne was charged with possession of a firearm and breach for owning a weapon after the pow wow. That charge was eventually dropped.

See ----->LA Presse - Montreal Mafia: Flourishing in 'free trade'

Giovanni Presta guilty of murdering Sébastien Beauchamp

Giovanni Presta, the man who helped Frédérick Silva kill an associate of the Hells Angels in St-Léonard four years ago, was found guilty of first-degree murder. Presta manufactured a firearm and silencers used to kill Sébastien Beauchamp on Dec. 20, 2018, helped Silva track Beauchamp in the days leading up to the murder and drove Silva to the hit. He automatically received a life sentence for first degree murder. Silva was found guilty of Beauchamp’s murder before Presta’s case went to trial. He was also found guilty of murdering three other men. Silva has since decided to turn rat.

See ----->Execution of Sébastien Beauchamp in 2018 created a mess
See ----->Frédérick Silva in the news - a rat

Charges laid against Wolfpack drug dealers in Vancouver DTES

Diego Saed, Joseph Lowley and Roger Bardales Medina.

Criminal charges, including organized crime-related, have been laid against Wolfpack drug traffickers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Cops seized 10 kg of fentanyl, 3 kg of cocaine, 6 kg of meth, 72 kg of cutting agents, 160k in cash and 3 vehicles. Also seized were 7 prohibited and restricted firearms. Six men facing charges are Joseph Ebert Charles Lowley, Vinod Kanna Aruldevarajan, Roger Alfredo Bardales Medina, Hemen Hewa Saed, Diego Maradona Saed, and Howjeen Saed. Diego Saed is still wanted, Lowley and Medina were reeled in.

Cops are asking anyone with information on the terrible trio to give them a call.

179 people, or 5.8 every day, died from toxic drugs in B.C. in October.

Andrew Sisson - Kiwi Hells Angels Nomads president - Guilty

Andrew Sisson and fellow Hells Angel Scott James Allan were found guilty in the Palmerston North District Court. Sisson’s wife Vikki was in court to hear the verdicts, as well as senior Hells Angels members who travelled to Manawatū for the occasion. Court bailiffs took advantage of the opportunity to get some visiting Hells Angels to cough up for unpaid fines, with the members paying in cash, or else. Sisson displayed photos of French bulldogs; “five of our little babies” he said. “I would sell each of them for an average of $4,500”. He took payment in cash. That didn't wash, and the jury believed Sisson was the primary meth wholesaler. 'Ses' could be looking at a long stretch. He was convicted in 1999 for conspiracy to supply meth and money laundering.

Hells Angels boss Andrew Sisson says firewood and French bulldogs explain the money cops say he made selling meth. The biker spent a day in the witness box telling a jury how he made cash and his lack of knowledge about the meth ring he supplied. A forensic accountant told the trial there were big gaps between the money Sisson spent and how much went into his accounts.

Sisson worked as a tattooist at the 'House of Pain'.

In 2010 Auckland NOW reported on unlawful debt collecting. Sisson was involved in the companies 'Rapid Recovery 2010 Ltd.' and 'Dirty Debtors Ltd.' He tried to steal a Toyota Hilux from an undercover cop in a sting operation. He marched around using a document headed "Warrant to Repossess" to rip folks off. The sting was part of a long-running operation against organized crime and led to criminal charges for three Hells Angels members and an associate. Sisson was also charged with possession of three rifles - a Ruger bolt action .243, a Ruger bolt action .308 and a .22 rifle.

3rd Russian crypto king in weeks dead in helicopter crash

Vyacheslav Taran, 53, died after his helicopter crashed near Villefranche-sur-Mer after lifting off from Lausanne in Switzerland. Taran was the co-founder of crypto trading platform Libertex and founder of Forex Club. French media reported that a passenger canceled at the last minute, though details regarding that passenger were unavailable. Tiantian Kullander 'TT', 30, reportedly died in his sleep last week. A third crypto mogul, Nikolai Mushegian, 29, drowned on a Puerto Rico beach October 29. He tweeted, hours before his death, that he feared the CIA and Mossad would kill him.

FTX implodes - billions into the ether - update IV

Crypto firm BlockFi has filed for bankruptcy. The crypto company, which offers a trading exchange and interest-bearing custodial service for cryptocurrencies, was one of many firms to face serious liquidity issues after the implosion of FTX. The New Jersey-based company had already halted withdrawals and admitted that it had “significant exposure” to bankrupt FTX and Alameda Research.

Employees at FTX received loans from Alameda, including $543m to head of engineering Nishad Singh and $55m to head of FTX digital markets Ryan Salame.

The company tasked with locking down assets of FTX said they've secured US$740m. The 'digital assets' are locked in what is known as 'cold storage'. The trouble is upwards of $10b has evaporated. The Turkish government announced it seized the assets in its country belonging to FTX, and Sam Bankman-Fried and others will be charged with crimes including money laundering, market manipulation and fraud. FTX.TR had over 110k users and processed $600m per month. Alameda Research, the trading arm of Sam Bankman-Fried, loaned him and other companies under his control $3.3b. $2.3b went to also bankrupt Paper Bird Inc., which he owns a majority stake in. Among other things, Bankman-Fried acculmulated $300m in Bahamas real estate.

FTX was a cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.US, its U.S. affiliate. In June 2021, FTX raised $1b at an $18b valuation from investors like Paradigm, SoftBank and Sequoia Capital. Three months later, FTX brought in $421m, pushing its valuation to $25b, this time from Singapore-government owned investment firm Temasek, Tiger Global Management and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The valuation was $32b. That number is now zero. FTT tokens Here

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan invested a total of $95m between FTX and FTX U.S. in late 2021 and early 2022. US authorities are investigating Bankman-Fried as well as FTX. The bloom is surely off the crypto rose now. Bitcoin slumped as much as 8% to $16.6k, exactly one year from it's $69k top.  Here.

All official FTX Group bankruptcy documents filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court can be found online at http://cases.ra.kroll.com/FTX/.

Sukhvir Singh Deo - Flashback

A Range Rover sped along Lakeshore Road in Oakville in 2013. Checks told cops the driver was Sukhvir Deo and alarm bells went off. CPIC confirmed the information and was accompanied with a request to deliver a “duty to warn”, this is a legal requirement for cops to warn an individual if there was a credible threat to their life. Halton police cops contacted B.C. to get more information about Deo — who had quietly relocated to a mansion in Oakville. Deo called himself a 'trucking executive' but was a well known transnational drug dealer. He was the author of his own fate after foolishly gaining attention at a Raptors game.

There have been no arrests in the June 7, 2016 murder of gangster Sukhvir Singh Deo. Two men wearing construction vests opened fire on Deo as he sat in his Range Rover. He died at the scene.

Deo was whacked weeks after a high profile appearance at a Raptors game.

Sukh Deo had been living in Ontario since 2013 in a palatial home in Oakville.

Larry Amero, Randy Naicker

Sukhvir Singh Deo

Deo was a drug dealer and was scheduled to stand trial after being arrested in October 2013 for trafficking cocaine and possession of property obtained by crime. Investigators seized 3 luxury cars — a Bentley, a Rolls Royce and a Land Rover. He moved to Toronto from Vancouver shortly after the murder of Independent Soldier founder Randy Naicker. His father, Parminder Deo is wanted on an Interpol warrant on drug smuggling and a raft of other charges laid in India.

Randy Naicker was killed on June 25, 2012

Sukhvir Singh Deo was involved in the Wolf Pack gang alliance between the Independent Soldiers and the Hells Angels. He was shot to death near Yonge and Eglinton. He was very close to two original Wolf Pack members — HA Larry Amero and James Riach of the Independent Soldiers. Larry Amero and James Riach were targeted with Red Scorpion leader Jon Bacon in a 2011 hit in Kelowna. Bacon was killed, Amero and Riach survived. It was war between the Wolf Pack and the Dhak-Duhre group.

Don Lyons, Larry Amero, Sukhvir Deo.

Jonathan Bacon in 2008 with Matt Johnston.

Deo was suspected in the May 2012 murder of Duhre associate Gurbinder (Bin) Toor.

Sukhvir Singh Deo

James Riach escaped assassination. He's serving life in the Philippines for drug trafficking.

Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, Michael Kerry Jones and Jason Thomas McBride were charged with killing Jon Bacon

Leah Hadden-Watts, niece of Hells Angel, Mike “Spike” Hadden was left a paraplegic.

Sandip Duhre was killed with several shots in the face in the lobby of the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver in 2012. He had a $120k bounty on his head.

Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil was charged in the Duhre murder. He is a close associate of HA Larry Amero

Sukh Dhak and his bodyguard Thomas Mantel were killed outside the Executive Hotel in Burnaby in 2013

See ----->Larry Amero, Dean Wiwchar and Rabih Alkhalil in court
See ----->Guilty on all counts - Little Italy shooting killers found guilty