Ji Xiaobo fingered as mafia kingpin by Chinese

Macau is the only place in China where casino gambling is legal.

Saipan based Imperial Pacific International (IPI) owner, Ji Xiaobo, was identified as a mafia kingpin by the Chinese court as his entourage were handed long prison sentences. Ji entered the Macau gaming industry with a Chinese junket in 2011, opening his first VIP room. In two years business expanded to seven VIP rooms in most major casinos in Macau, offering 86 tables. IPI opened a casino under a temporary casino license in 2014. It operated 48 gaming tables and 141 slot machines. IPI Casino officially opened in July 2017, and the casino’s capacity increased to 77 tables and 243 machines. In its 2017 financial report, IPI reported a 75% increase in revenue to HK$13.2 billion ($1.7 billion), of which 96.7% came from the VIP segment.

All was not as it appeared. The operation was laundering huge sums of dirty money. IPI was investigated by the DoJ for money laundering in 2017. Hong Kong listed IPI shares were suspended from trading. The Chinese began investigating Ji Xiaobo in 2020. He hasn’t been seen in public for more than two years, and is allegedly hiding in Tokyo. Chinese authorities are said to be on the hunt for him.

French Bulldog heist = $100k

Cops are on the hunt for perps who stole a dozen French bulldogs valued at $100k from a southern California pet store. One of the 12 dogs the men pilferred was a show dog named 'Roll X.' Gardena cops are investigating and posts of the hot dogs have been distributed across social media.

Hakan Ayik - Australia's top drug importer busted

Hakan Ayik was arrested in Turkey with 36 others 3 weeks ago. Ayik is known as the 'Facebook gangster' due to his love for self-promotion.

In August 2017 plans were made for dinner in Dubai for the two younger brothers of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim and three major players of Sydney's underworld. Australian cops had been waiting for more than two years and after dinner Dubai police's anti-narcotics unit swooped in, arresting five huge players in Australia's drug trade.

The Ibrahim brothers

The Dubai arrests, which also included Sydney underworld figures Steven Fawaz Elmir, Hakan Arif and Mustapha Dib, triggered raids by more than 500 cops at 30 properties across Sydney. The investigation, known as Operation Veyda, resulted in the seizure of 1.8 tonnes of MDMA, 136 kg of cocaine, 15 kg of meth and $5.5m in cash. The drugs, from the Netherlands, were meant to make their way into Australia via corrupt border officials.

Comanchero and drug lord Hakan Ayik fled to his native Istanbul. Oz press tracked Ayik down easily and found him owning the Kings Cross Hotel in Istanbul and living in high-end properties. He had changed his name to Hakan Reis and disguised his appearance with plastic surgery. He subsequently popped up in tapped calls with drug suppliers in Australia discussing overseas importation. Ayik founded a massive drug importation business by the age of 32 by forging alliances with the Chinese triads, Indian chemical suppliers and Comanchero bikers. He has been a fugitive since 2010.

HA scum go away 6 years for brutal, senseless murder

In the early hours of May 1, 2022 Steven Buchan Jr., 45, was mercilessly beaten and left to die outside a bar in Clements, a rural town 12 miles east of Lodi, California. The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office found Buchan in the area of Highway 88 and Mackville Road around 1:55 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Jason C. Blasingame, Lloyd Strack, and Aaron Davis, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 6 years. Blasingame and Strack are both full patch members of the Stockton chapter of the Hells Angels. Davis is a prospect. StocktonHAMC@gmail.com

Jason C. Blasingame

Buchan Jr. had no connection to bikers and was not a bar regular. Its believed he was beaten to death for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Damiano Dipopolo - Brandon Vito Huges - "a nice boy"

Brandon Vito Hughes' killers were waiting for him on July 23, 2009.

Call IHIT at 1-877-551-4448, IHIT File#2009-6580, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers.

After coming home from Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks, Brandon Vito Hughes was gunned down outside his North Vancouver home. His father, Kevin Hughes, ran out to the front gate and tried in vain to save his son. In the early morning of July 23, 2009 Brandon Vito Hughes was pronounced dead in hospital. IHIT issued a public plea for information about the shooting. "The investigation remains open and active, time and distance can be a factor in our favor in historical investigations."

Brandon Vito Hughes was 28 when he was murdered.

Donato Decotiis said threats had been made against him and other family members, including Hughes, because of a long-running family feud.

Rocco Dipopolo

Donato Decotiis said he was warned that thugs linked to the Hells Angels had been hired. Don Decotiis, Hayley Winter, Ivano Decotiis.

Damiano Dipopolo

Dec. 11, 2005. Vancouver Province. A long-running feud in a family whose name is tied to some of Vancouver's biggest real-estate developments has once again spilled into B.C. Supreme Court. It comes with allegations of threats, assaults, intimidation - and a contract to kill a family member. In an unusual civil suit, Donato Decotiis, then 44, sought a court injunction and damages to protect himself from eight family members named in a statement of claim. The suit alleges that the eight Decotiis family defendants "have engaged, hired or employed the defendants Rocco Dipopolo and Damiano Dipopolo to assault, threaten and/or intimidate the plaintiff as an integral part of efforts to intimidate the plaintiff, to interfere in the business, commercial and leisure activities of the plaintiff and to injure the plaintiff." VPD investigated an incident between Donato Decotiis and the Dipopolos. No charges were laid.

[18] At some point, on a date which was not clear in the evidence, Mr. Dipopolo won $80,000 in a lottery. He gave his twin brother $30,000 as a gift. [48] At some point, Mr. Dipopolo acquired a one-third interest in a company called Liquid Zoo Holdings Ltd. On August 23, 2005, Mr. Dipopolo, together with the two other shareholders in Liquid Zoo Holdings Ltd., Messrs. Bruneau and Raffael, signed a promissory note for $350,000 payable to Amacon Management. [62] Liquid Zoo Holdings executed a mortgage dated May 12, 2006, in favour of Amacon for the amount of $650,000. However, this mortgage was not registered until more than one year later, on August 10, 2007. Mr. Dipopolo appeared to consider the mortgage to be further security for Amacon's $350,000 loan to the three Liquid Zoo Holdings shareholders made about one year earlier, in August 2005. In July 2005 the Kelowna newspaper reported; "The biker gang owns more than 20 homes in the city and more than a dozen businesses including Champagne Charlies on Lawrence Ave., Digstown Clothing on Pandosy St., Pier Marine Pub in Westbank and Splash's Nite Club on Leon Ave."

Marcello DeCotiis, Lilliana DeCotiis. Lillianna threatened that the Dipopolos would assault Donato De Cotiis.

Lilliana De Cotiis runs the hospitality division of real estate developer Amacon, which she co-owns with eldest sibling Teresa and older brothers Donato, Luca and Marcello. For more than 40 years Amalio DeCotiis and his two brothers ran Amacon Developments, a company they founded together after emigrating from Italy in 1959. Amacon was named after late father Amalio and mother Concetta. Amalio was part of the first generation of De Cotiises to arrive in Vancouver. He came with parents Donato and Teresa and three sisters as well as brothers Marcangelo, Inno, Vito and Michael in a staggered migration. Eldest brother Marcangelo had a falling out with his brothers that devolved into legal action. Vito died in his 30s.

Damiano DiPopolo

Inno created his own real estate development company and named it by spelling his own name backwards: Onni. He died in 2020. The company is now run by sons Rossano DeCotiis and Morris DeCotiis.

Youngest brother Michael then founded and still runs Pinnacle International.

Sunday, July 26, 2009. The targeted murder of Brandon Vito Hughes was preceded by a tense family feud that included death threats within the De Cotiis clan. In 2003 Paolo De Cotiis threatened Brandon Hughes and his family with death. Hughes was found gravely wounded outside 1956 Jones Ave. in North Vancouver. Hughes is grandson of the late construction mogul Marcangelo De Cotiis, whose widow, Addolorata De Cotiis, owns the home at 1956 Jones Ave. Siblings of the De Cotiis family own Onni Group, Pinnacle International and Amacon.

Brandon Vito Hughes

August 6th, 2010. B.C. Court of Appeal issues ruling in De Cotiis family feud. Donato De Cotiis's lawsuit against companies controlled by his uncles Amalio, Inno, and Mike was dismissed. Donato De Cotiis's deceased father Marcangelo, a construction magnate, was also listed as a plaintiff. "This dispute is only part of a larger family feud that unfolded against a backdrop of profitable corporations and partnerships," Newbury wrote in the court's reasons for judgment. This lawsuit was a spinoff of another major dispute, which was addressed in a 1995 B.C. Supreme Court decision.

Connected with disgraced realtor Shahin Behroyan is agent Teresa Decotiis. She was directly involved in Behroyan's $75k scam for half. The Decotiis hired HA Damiano Dipopolo and his brother Rocco in a bitter family feud. Brandon Vito Hughes is thereafter whacked after multiple threats. The Decotiis family financed the Hells Angels expansion into Kelowna for seven figures, unsecured.

tdecotiis@gmail.com

Teresa Decotiis was directly involved, along with her siblings, as management of Amacon, the corporate entity that cut the cheques to Dipopolo. Teresa Decotiis has bitched to the cops multiple times about this blogger's true facts. She managed 80 votes running for West Vancouver mayor in 2022. In an e-mail she states "Brandon Hughes had an ex girlfriend that did that to him. It's very sad as he was a nice boy who got caught with many girl friends and the wrong crowd, I was not close to him. "
See --->Shahin Behroyan - crooked realtor shot down by high court

Kinahan gangster Liam Byrne will suffer 'inhumane treatment' in UK jail - lawyer

Liam Byrne, a key cog of the Kinahan crime gang, has claimed his extradition to the UK from Spain should be rejected because he risks "inhumane and degrading treatment" in a U.K. prison. Byrne's lawyer said there is a 'real risk' that his client's fundamental right to 'physical and moral integrity' will be in danger if his extradition to the UK proceeds. Byrne was lassoed at a Spanish restaurant in June 2023. His lawyer says extradition would violate human rights because the only evidence against his client are hacked messages on encrypted communications network Encrochat. A separate extradition appeal for Kinahan gangster Jack Kavanagh was also held last week. Spanish prosecutors backed the extradition of both men, who are wanted on gun trafficking charges. Kavanagh was arrested at Malaga Airport on May 30th while in-transit from Dubai to Turkey.

As for the Kinahans, most are still thought to be in the UAE. Daniel Kinahan, 46, his brother Christopher, 42, and associate Sean McGovern, 37, are holed up in the country. The net is apparently closing with Ireland's Justice Minister recently promising to extradite them after high level meetings with UAE officials. See ----->US sanctions Kinahan Cartel

Cameron Ortis guilty

Ashraf Khanani was contacted by Cameron Ortis. With Salim Hanareh and Farzam Mehdizadeh, they ran a huge money laundering business in the GTA. Project Ace began after cops found RCMP intelligence on a device owned by Vincent Ramos, a Vancouver dealer of encrypted phones for drug dealers. He was busted in 2018 and now resides in a Federal US jail cell.

Salim Henareh.

Cameron Ortis

It has been four years of silence since the arrest of Cameron Ortis sent shockwaves through cop, intelligence and the international spy community. His arrest meant the RCMP wasn't vetting civilian employees before dishing out top-secret clearance. Ortis, 51, faced 6 charges when his trial began. Four are under the Security of Information Act for “intentionally and without authority” sharing “special operational information” to four unnamed individuals in 2015. Two charges are under the Criminal Code for breach of trust and misusing a computer. Ortis improperly sat at the apex of Canada’s criminal national security intelligence apparatus. Most details about the allegations against Ortis are under a publication ban.

Senior RCMP officials thought they were brilliant by handing over their national intelligence program to a civilian. RCMP brass made Cameron Ortis director-general of the National Intelligence Coordination Centre and gave him a free hand. Four years later and Ortis is awaiting trial for security breaches; three of his former staff are suing the government for harassment; and an independent review has cited senior police officials responsible for the NICC for their "clear failure." Top RCMP entrusted Ortis with critical intelligence at the helm of the NICC, and kept him in that position despite repeated and numerous complaints about his conduct as a spy from staff. Former RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says he had a “friendly” relationship with Cameron Ortis, an alleged mole accused of selling top secret intelligence. “I never received any complaints about Cam and I was never advised of any complaints about Cam."

Paulson denies he protected Ortis, which is strange because Ortis's rapid rise would have been impossible without Paulson. The former head of RCMP’s special intelligence unit was reported for his “strange and controlling” behavior in early 2017. Ortis was arrested in Sept 2019 after the FBI revealed he was a spy. Paulson initially declined to comment. An independent review concluded all levels of senior RCMP management failed to deal with the many complaints against Ortis. Harassment was a theme during Paulson’s tenure at the RCMP. He issued an apology in Oct 2016 in a legal settlement. Hundreds of millions was blown in legal fees.

See ----->Espionage suspect Cameron Ortis jailed
See ----->Vincent Ramos pleads guilty in 'Phantom Secure'