Tse Chi Lop is a China born Canadian national who is the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that dominates the $70 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade. ^{[1] [2]}

Tse Chi Lop was born in Guangzhou in 1963, but immigrated to Canada in 1988, joining the exodus from Hong Kong ahead of its handover to Chinese control. ^[1]

He is suspected by police and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to be the leader of a narcotics syndicate named Sam Gor, “Brother Number Three” in Cantonese. The syndicate is believed to hold significant responsibility for a surge of synthetic drugs, including methamphetamine and ketamine, across Asia. ^[3]

Tse Chi Lop allegedly built the foundations of his drug trade by importing heroin from the Golden Triangle to North America. He was a Toronto-based member of a Canadian gang called the Big Circle Gang. ^[3]