{"id":363603,"date":"2025-11-08T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363603\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:58:09","slug":"3-people-kicked-out-of-canada-in-extortion-probe-in-b-c-border-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363603\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people kicked out of Canada in extortion probe in B.C., border agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 The Canada Border Services Agency says it has removed three people from the country as part of its work within the B.C. Extortion Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says in a statement that it is also investigating another 78 foreign nationals who may be inadmissible to the country and connected to the spate of shootings and extortion attempts in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The unit was created earlier this year and is made up of investigators from the border agency, RCMP, gang squad and several other police departments.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s looking into dozens of extortion attempts and subsequent shootings \u2014 many of them aimed at South Asian business people \u2014 that have terrorized several communities in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Nina Patel, the regional director general for the agency\u2019s Pacific region, says their investigations highlight the critical role its teams play in disrupting organized transnational criminal groups.<\/p>\n<p>There have been arrests and a few convictions for the crimes, including some linked to the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which the federal government recently declared a terrorist entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The Canada Border Services Agency says it has removed three people from the country as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-363603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115511840224490714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}