Tse Chi Lop
Tse Chi Lop (謝志樂, born 1963) is the alleged kingpin behind Asia-Pacific based international crime supersyndicate, Sam Gor, also referred to as "The Company", and former member of the Hong Kong, Toronto and Vancouver-based triad crime group, the Big Circle Gang. Aliases used by Tse include Tse Chi Lap, Brother No. 3, Sam Gor, T1, Ah Lap, Dennis and Xie Zii. Some police forces refer to Tse as "T1" (top target). A Reuters report in 2019 stated that Tse was a "Canadian national" but did not specify the location of his residence; as of June 2020, he held a Canadian passport. At that time he was said to be 56 years old.

The Sam Gor syndicate generates billions of dollars each year from the trade in methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that Sam Gor generated between $8 billion and $17.7 billion in revenue from meth in 2018 had "expanded at least fourfold in the past five years". Some leading authorities asserted that Tse was a bigger player in the global drug trade than Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, and possibly even Colombian cartel leader Pablo Escobar. Sam Gor is said to be largely responsible for the dramatic shift in recent years away from drugs such as heroin and towards synthetics such as methamphetamine, ketamine and fentanyl in East and Southeast Asia, and has been implicated in very large shipments outside the immediate region including a 1.2 ton seizure of methamphetamine in Geraldton, Western Australia in 2017. The groups methamphetamine production operations in the Golden Triangle area of Myanmar are "protected by private militias" according to a June 2020 news report. The group is believed to source and sell a range of drugs and precursor chemicals from a variety of sources and countries.

Tse was arrested by Dutch police in Schiphol Airport on 22 January 2021 when he was on his way to Canada from Taiwan. He is currently waiting for extradition to Australia.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
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Pablo Escobar
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ketamine
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fentanyl
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Tse Chi Lop
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