US EditionPoilievre Calls on Federal Government to Classify Bishnoi Gang as Terror Entity
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urges terror designation to combat the Bishnoi gang's international extortion network responsible for at least 10 extortion cases in six months, police said.
- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in Surrey, urged the federal government Wednesday to designate the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity, following a byelection win Monday and last week's Conservative request.
- Police investigations link extortion cases to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, and RCMP in Surrey made two arrests last month probing extortion targeting the South Asian business community.
- Poilievre noted a Surrey businessman faced threats demanding $2 million and shootings, and that Lawrence Bishnoi, founder jailed since 2014, leads a network carrying out global crimes.
- Poilievre says the designation would criminalize financing, travel, and recruitment under the Criminal Code and aid police and prosecutors while fitting a Conservative plan for fall Parliament that includes a four-year sentence for first offence.
- Provincial and municipal leaders have also called for the label, with B.C. Premier David Eby asking in June and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith repeating last month; the federal government has listed seven criminal groups before.
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Poilievre calls on federal government to classify Bishnoi gang as terror entity
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Poilievre calls on federal government to classify Bishnoi gang as terror entity – Energeticcity.ca
SURREY — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the latest politician calling for the federal government to designate the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity. His call on a visit to Surrey, B.C., comes after RCMP in the city announced last month they had made two arrests in an investigation into extortion targeting the South Asian business community. Police have linked some extortion cases back to the gang, whose leader Lawr…
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