19 arrested as Police seize drugs worth over $97 million in Canada
Canadian authorities have arrested 19 individuals, many of Indian origin, following a massive drug bust involving 1.7 tonnes of narcotics valued at over $97 million. The operation, codenamed Project Bay, uncovered a trafficking network using commercial trucking routes to move drugs across the Canada-U.S. border.
Why it matters
This bust represents a significant disruption of international drug trafficking networks and highlights the vulnerability of commercial supply chains.
Nineteen people, most of them believed to be of Indian-origin, were arrested in one of the largest-ever drug busts in Canada's Ontario province in which authorities seized nearly 1.7 tonnes of narcotics with an estimated value of over $97 million.
An intelligence-led cross-border investigation, codenamed Project Bay, dismantled an alleged drug trafficking network that used commercial transport routes to move narcotics into Canada, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said in a press statement.
Police said 19 people have been arrested, while two remain at large.
Many of the accused are truck drivers allegedly recruited to transport illicit consignments across the Canada-U.S. border.
Among those arrested were Gagandip Thindal, 27, Simranjit Singh, 32, Kanwarpal Kular, 32, Jatinderpal Singh, 39, Jasvinder Sohi, 55, Tejwinder Sandhu, 29, Harjwinder Sandhu, 33, Haninderpal Grewal, 34, Tarminder Singh, 19, Avtar Sahota, 54, Gundeep Tariwal, 32, Mehakpreet Singh, 24, and Karandeep Singh, 27.
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