From: Asia Pacific Post
A US investigation that led to the arrest of a California senator and Chinese triad members linked to weapons trafficking has thrown up some troubling Canadian links.
Sen. Leland Yee (Democrat, San Francisco) and 25 others were named in a federal complaint charging them with firearms trafficking, money laundering, murder-for-hire, drug distribution, trafficking contraband cigarettes and honest services fraud.
The supplier of the weapons was a Filipino national “who previously sold guns to individuals from Florida and delivered through the Port of Cagayan de Oro,” according to the 137-page criminal complaint.
In the documents FBI undercover agents talked to the Yee about movement of weapons from Russia via Canada and bulk cash smuggling from Canadian cities.
Also arrested in the raid was 54-year-old Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, a former Chinatown gangster who now heads the Chee Kung Tong masonic organization in San Francisco.
Chow is well known by Asian Organised crime investigators in Vancouver and Toronto and is believed to have connections with Triad groups in Canada.
A federal complaint against Yee accuses him of soliciting illegal campaign donations in exchange for political favors and conspiring to smuggle weapons from countries like the Philippines.
