One day in the winter of 2021, Dutch police caught a Chinese-Canadian man named Xie Zhile at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. He was a young man, a mediocre man, always with a harmless smile on his face, and inconspicuous in the crowd.
However, this "ordinary person" is actually the globally wanted "Asian drug king". He leads a large multinational drug trafficking organization involved in multiple international drug trafficking cases, and his notoriety can even be compared to that of the notorious drug lord "El Guzmán the Elf".
The ringleader, known as the "Third Brother", has not only successfully escaped for more than ten years under the joint pursuit of many countries, but also made huge money transactions under a strict search net.
Xie Zhile's drug cartel controls the Asia-Pacific drug trade, which deals as much as $70 billion a year, and he once squandered $60 million (about 400 million yuan) in a casino.
With his**, the bizarre experience of a Cantonese nobody is also**. This person was originally just a gangster, but he couldn't extricate himself because he was caught in a drug circle.
After moving to Hong Kong, Tse Chi-lok met several Ma Tsai, and soon contracted a lot of bad habits, and joined the "Big Circle Gang" under the recommendation of Ma Tsai. This term usually refers to those gangs that illegally enter the country from the mainland and engage in *** activities.
With no permanent residence, members of the Big Circle Gang often choose to indulge themselves and engage in various criminal activities, and Xie Zhile is no exception, starting in the gambling business and then getting into the drug trade in pursuit of higher profits.
Xie Zhile seems to be a natural expert at crime, and his gangster career is getting better and better, and within a few years, he has been promoted from a small role at the bottom to a core member of the gang. Since the 80s, the arrogance of the big circle gang has become increasingly arrogant, and their original criminal behavior of petty fighting has gradually escalated, which has had a serious impact on social security.
In order to crack down on this gang, the local ** has stepped up anti-gang efforts, and many gang members have been forced to withdraw from their criminal careers and find new ways to survive.
However, the drug business in Hong Kong is declining, and several drug bosses have been dismissed one after another, and the situation has become increasingly serious. Tse sensed the change, and he immigrated to Canada in 1988 through connections and settled in Toronto.
In the new environment, he relied on the contacts and resources he had previously established, and was quickly accepted by the local Big Circle Gang remnants. At the same time, because of his outstanding performance in Hong Kong, he was caught by a drug smuggling ring and became a member of the gang.
Initially, he was only in charge of transporting drugs and looking out for the wind, but due to his excellent "business ability", he was soon promoted to the middle level of the gang and officially entered the core of the Chinese gang in Toronto.
In the process, he gradually revealed his vicious nature, launched many ** struggles, and finally succeeded in clearing the old forces and sat on the throne of the leader of the local Big Circle Gang.
In the following period, Xie Zhile immediately established a drug syndicate led by himself, encroached on and annexed the Canadian drug market little by little, and then monopolized it, and then expanded overseas markets, traveled around Southeast Asia, North America, Hong Kong and Macao, made friends with drug lords in various places, accumulated a large number of network resources, committed many major crimes, and gradually spread his reputation in the underworld.
Drug dealers and addicts have new "partners", and naturally they will not ignore this emerging gangster organization, and Xie Zhile has been included in the list of key investigation targets. ** A large amount of pointing evidence is also secretly collected.
Finally, in 1998, Xie Zhile was arrested by New York** for trafficking***, and the Eastern District Court of New York charged him with drug smuggling and trafficking. Due to the sheer volume of money he trafficked, he was most likely sentenced to life imprisonment on the spot.
According to the convention, the life of the new drug lord Xie Zhile should have ended here with a barred cry. However, the outcome of the trial was beyond everyone's expectations. Probably because of years of criminal experience that has tempered his psychological quality and eloquence, in 2000, Xie Zhile submitted a ** letter to the court through his lawyer, and reflected on his mistakes in court with tears in his eyes.
He insisted that he had elderly parents and a seriously ill 12-year-old son, while his innocent wife was left alone with the pressure of the family. At the same time, he also deeply regretted and vowed to quit drugs and become a good law-abiding citizen, and since then, he has changed his mind and returned to Canada after being released from prison to realize his original dream of opening a Chinese restaurant and living a stable and happy life with his family.
It may be that the defendant's acting skills are superb, the judge believes his half-truths and half-truths, or it may be other considerations, in short, Xie Zhile got his wish and obtained a reduced sentence, and was only sentenced to nine years in prison.
Later, thanks to his good performance in prison, he received a second commutation and was finally released in 2006.
Although Xie Zhile once vowed to become a restaurateur with a conscience, his true face has not changed. Back in Canada, he rediscovered his true colors and set out to build his own drug empire.
* found that Xie Zhile lived a luxurious life after being released from prison, and the people around him respectfully called him "third brother". Although he looks like an ordinary middle-aged man, his bodyguards are always close to him to ensure his personal safety.
* Analysis, Xie Zhile's life pattern implies that he may have a large amount of illegal financial support behind him. However, due to the lack of conclusive evidence, it was not possible to conduct a search directly.
The police's speculation was confirmed, and Xie Zhile had initially built up his drug empire. He used this shell company as a cover, and secretly used the contacts accumulated before the first to establish a drug trafficking network across China and the Golden Triangle region, which is the Asian transnational drug trafficking alliance The company.
The Company is composed of five criminal gangs, including Taiwan's "Bamboo Union Gang", Xie Zhile's original "Big Circle Gang", and "14K", "Heshenghe" and "Xin Ngee An", which once roamed Hong Kong and Macau.
These five gangs all have a long history of crime, and under the leadership of Xie Zhile, they quickly found their respective areas of strength, each performing its own duties, and the processing center of drug raw materials was set up in the "Golden Triangle".
The "Golden Triangle" is a special zone located on the borders of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, which has been in a state of chaos due to its geographical location and political reasons. The area is rich in opium poppies, which attracts many drug dealers to buy their goods and provides an economy for the local population.
Although Myanmar and the United Nations Drug Control Programme have banned opium poppy cultivation since 2006, many people continue to take risks because of their high yields and adverse effects on the growth of other crops, resulting in an increase in the abundance of poppies in the Golden Triangle.
Xie Zhile used money in exchange for the protection of the local armed forces, set up a special drug processing base in a village in the Golden Triangle, and designed the shipping route to be extremely secretive.
There is a "military advisor" named Lin Xiaodao by his side, he is in the shipping business, he is very generous, he once gambled one billion yuan in casinos in the Philippines, and he is a well-known rich man in Taiwan.
Under the guidance of the "big man" Lin Xiaodao, Xie Zhile arranged for his subordinates to mix the refined drugs into the tea, first finding local residents or hiring his subordinates to carry drugs across the forest to the Mekong River to the sea; Then use the "ghost ship" provided by Lin Xiaodao for transshipment.
He owns several "ghost ships" moored on the high seas, which have long been protected by Philippine rebels; Eventually, the drugs were brought ashore by other vessels and distributed throughout the country.
In order to steadily and safely enhance his reputation and expand his influence, Xie Zhile also formulated a series of regulations. First of all, for customers, he promised that if their goods were found, the company would unconditionally reissue or refund; Secondly, he maintains a friendly attitude towards gangs outside the alliance.
With the demeanor of a big businessman in Guangdong, Xie Zhile showed a business strategy that was completely different from that of a drug gang. Instead of expelling or annexing local gangs, he chose to run the drug industry with them and made many friends.
Xie Zhile values the low-key behavior of his team members and takes strict measures against those who have defection thoughts. In order to launder money, he uses the real estate investment industry and the gambling industry around the world as a common channel.
Compared with real estate investment, Xie Zhile prefers to spend a lot of time in casinos, which is the first business he handled. He has found a partner for money laundering – Crown Resort***, which accounts for nearly half of Australia's casino market share.
An insider used to have a relationship at Crown Casino and was recruited to work as a casino agent in The Company's Australian branch. He admitted after smashing Hsieh's drug alliance that "casino money laundering is much more convenient" than operating in a bank.
Xie Zhile once completed a money laundering transaction worth $800 million at Crown Casino. In addition to working with Crown's casinos, Tse also travels to casinos all over Asia, especially on horses.
However, his gambling skills were terrible, and he once lost $66 million (about 400 million yuan) overnight in a Macau casino. However, Xie Zhile was unconcerned about this huge loss, and he often threw lavish parties, hired private jets, and hired 8 top Muay Thai boxers as bodyguards.
This lavish lifestyle contrasts sharply with his low-key style of drug trafficking.
Under Hsieh's strong leadership, his company went from strength to strength, and in just a few years, they smuggled *** and methamphetamine to more than a dozen countries. In 2018, their sales reached $70 billion, accounting for 70% of the Australian market.
After Xie Zhile Group led the Asia-Pacific region** deals, the total transaction value of ** increased by 4 times. Forbes once held a list of the "Top 10 Villains in the World", in which the first villain is Joe Quinn Guzman, who is known as "Shorty" because of his extremely short height.
He is the leader of Mexico's largest drug cartel, notorious for killing people without blinking, and controls an armed force of 150,000 people, compared to Mexico's permanent army of 130,000.
In the eyes of **, Xie Zhile's crime is enough to be compared with this demon, he is known as the "Asian Shorty", also known as the "Asian Drug King".
Xie Zhile has become a major threat to global security, and in order to hunt him down, countries have worked hard for many years. However, due to the low-key and protective forces of the Xie Zhile Group, the pursuit lasted for more than ten years before it ended.
Multinational countries jointly encircled and suppressed, and the Asian drug king was arrested in the Netherlands. In 2011, when Xie Zhile's shell company was established, a small drug smuggling ring based in Melbourne was discovered in Australia**.
After in-depth research, ** deduced that there must be a "big man" behind the gang, so he decided to use this as a bait to catch all the ** behind it. As a result, ** conducted surveillance on this gang for more than a year, and intercepted their goods several times.
Coincidentally, the source of goods for this gang is Xie Zhile's company. According to Xie Zhile's regulations, once the customer's goods are intercepted, they must unconditionally reissue the goods, and Xie Zhile's subordinates also strictly enforce this regulation.
In the passage of time, Xie Zhile noticed that the gang seemed to be a little unlucky, and he could always find them in time. In addition, the cost of drugs is very high, and it is not cost-effective to be a small gang *** frequently.
So, in 2013, Tse came up with the idea of interviewing the gang leader in Hong Kong. Australia, who heard the news, was very excited, and it turned out that this little-known drug gang turned out to be the company's downline.
They have long been dissatisfied with the company, because the leader of this syndicate has never set foot on Australian soil, but has used Australia as their base for drug trafficking, distribution and money laundering.
* An arrest operation was immediately launched, but in the end the operation failed, and instead it was taken by surprise. Xie Zhile has disappeared without a trace since then, and all countries are tracking his whereabouts.
Three years later, in 2016, there was a breakthrough. One day, a man with a drug powder bag tied to his thigh appeared at Yangon airport and was caught red-handed by the anti-narcotics police.
Taiwanese man Tsai Jingze was arrested, and in addition to the drug powder found in his body, a large amount of intelligence was also found in his two mobile phones. The information points to Xie Zhile, who has been missing for three years, and also found a section in which a man is abused by a group of masked gangsters, who punish the man with a murder weapon, and also display the symbol of "triad".
Triad is a Chinese criminal organization, developed from the Tiandi Society, with more than 200,000 members, mainly engaged in illegal industries, and Hong Kong** is cracking down on the organization.
The Company's 'Harmony Harmony', '14k' and 'New Ngee An' are the three most powerful forces in the triad. The warnings and penalties for these three groups are usually imposed by The Company.
In a recent case, a member of the team threw 300 kilograms of drugs into the sea under the mistaken belief that the police would be able to stop his smuggling activities. Another member, Cai Jingze, remained silent during the interrogation for fear of torture.
Through the information found on his body, ** gradually locked on the relevant clues of Xie Zhile, and confirmed at least 13 cases related to The Company since January 2015.
However, Xie Zhile was cunning, and he quickly transferred his office and avoided the pursuit of ** again. "