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Criminal organization
Big Circle Gang
Founded
1970s
Founding location
United States, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
Years active
1970s-present
Territory
Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Malaysia, United States, Canada, Australia
Ethnicity
Chinese
Criminal activities
Racketeering, Murder, drug trafficking, child trafficking, human trafficking, child prostitution, intimidation, extortion, money laundering, contract killing
Rivals
Bloods, 211 Crew, Soldiers of Aryan Culture, Aryan Nations, Lynwood Vikings, Aryan Circle, Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, Crips, Piru Street Boys, East Side Longos, 14K Triad
The Big Circle Gang or Big Circle Boys[1] is a Chinese triad which was established in Hong Kong in the 1970s. They were given the moniker "Big Circle Gang" and were formed by former members of the Red Guards, a paramilitary organization established by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. After Mao eventually ordered a crackdown on the Red Guards using the People's Liberation Army (PLA), many former members of the organization were imprisoned in China.[2] However, some former Red Guards fled as refugees to Hong Kong, where they "turned their military prowess to crime", according to a Canadian court record, forming the triad known as the Big Circle Gang. The triad now thrives among the unregulated factories and underground banks of Guangdong, and especially in the city of Guangzhou; they were nicknamed the "Big Circle Gang" after a drawing on a map indicating in which part of China they operated.[3]
They spread rapidly across Canadian cities in the 1990s, and confidential informants say Big Circle Boys are trusted bonding agents among many actors in fluid networks of Asian drug-trafficking. They controlled much of the heroin trade in central China and now control a vast percentage of the heroin and fentanyl distribution business in the United States and Canada. The Big Circle Boys are a transnational-organized crime syndicate.
On 22 January 2021, as part of Operation Kungur, Dutch police arrested Tse Chi Lop, alleged to have assumed the leadership of the organisation and having taken it to higher levels as Sam Gor (The Company), with the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime putting the larger syndicate's turnover at $8-18 billion in 2018.[4]
^Chinese Organized Crime and Illegal Alien Trafficking: Humans as a Commodity (US Department of State)
^Big Circle Boys were involved drug trafficking and credit card fraud. A dozen people tied to the group were arrested after the RCMP uncovered a “credit card factory” operating out of Vancouver homes. Police estimated it had the potential to bring in $200-million Archived 2021-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, Global News
^One of Asia’s biggest crime bosses is arrested: Tse Chi Lop’s drug-trafficking syndicate has spread across the world Archived 2021-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, The Economist Jan 30th 2021
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