Exclusive Analysis: U.S. Indictment Alleges Canada Border Agency Insider Sold Inspection Schedules to Indo-Mexican Cartel Network

The Dhanda indictment reads as the industrial blueprint of the Mexico-to-Canada corridor — and its most damning allegation is aimed at Canada's border defenses.

VANCOUVER — A sweeping American investigation into transnational Indian narcotics traffickers — the same case that names the political assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Vancouver — alleges that a joined network of Indian and Mexican cartel operatives corrupted British Columbia’s border defenses, obtaining the Canada Border Services Agency’s truck-inspection schedules so that semi-loads of cocaine and methamphetamine collected in California could cross into Canada precisely where, and when, the inspectors were not.

The Canadian agency corruption allegation sits in the manner-and-means section of the indictment against Vancouver long-haul trucking logistics broker Ravinder Singh Dhanda. The case anchors this week’s Operation Hard Ball prosecutions — three indictments, 37 defendants, and, in the Bishnoi enterprise filing, the first court-charged accounting of the June 2023 killing outside a Surrey Sikh temple that ruptured relations between Ottawa and New Delhi. ---More...

Exclusive Analysis: U.S. Indictment Alleges Canada Border Agency Insider Sold Inspection Schedules to Indo-Mexican Cartel Network Moving Hundreds of Kilograms Weekly Into British Columbia https://t.co/rWaXSqYeBc

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