The Calgary police have released pictures of nearly 15 suspects in connection with the ongoing extortion investigation involving members of the city\u2019s South Asian community majority Punjabis, who have been involved in shooting.<\/p>\n
The police have not ruled out the possibility that the suspects may be operating as foot soldiers for the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang.<\/p>\n
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Pictures of suspects.<\/p>\n
The police are further asking for help locating Germanjeet Singh, who is wanted on warrants related to an extortion incident, and identifying suspects in two extortion cases in the communities of Cityscape and Saddle Ridge.<\/p>\n
The authorities said that since April 2025, there have been 49 extortion-related incidents in Calgary, including 19 shootings.<\/p>\n
Sixteen individuals have so far been charged with a total of 56 offences, and police confirmed that none of them are Canadian citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that by releasing these photos, community members can provide additional information to help advance our investigations,\u201d said Superintendent Jeff Bell of the CPS criminal operations and intelligence division.<\/p>\n
Investigators noted that the suspects may be known in the community by different names and encountered under varying circumstances.<\/p>\n
Bell also acknowledged monitoring developments in other parts of the country, including Vancouver, where a recent trial involved allegations of links to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we come across any evidence to suggest that, we will be working with our national security partners as they are considered a terrorist organisation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Recently, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) issued a special bulletin detailing a sustained campaign of coercion. According to the bulletin, this activity typically involves \u201cfinancially vulnerable, young male, Indian nationals in Canada on study permits\u201d being used as foot soldiers by gangs to carry out targeted acts of violence against South Asian diaspora communities across Canada.<\/p>\n
The bulletin further warned that copycat actors and smaller criminal groups are exploiting the fearsome reputation of major gangs to amplify the impact of their own extortion demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary police have released pictures of nearly 15 suspects in connection with the ongoing extortion investigation involving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37542,37543,37544,37545,2776,37546,37547,51,8510,2494,37548],"class_list":["post-104813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-calgarycrime","tag-calgarypolice","tag-extortioninvestigation","tag-germanjeetsingh","tag-punjabicommunity","tag-southasiancommunity","tag-vancouvercrime","tag-calgary","tag-fintrac","tag-lawrencebishnoigang","tag-nationalsecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}