Asia's 'El Chapo' arrested in Amsterdam
Police in the Netherlands have arrested the alleged head of one of the world's biggest drugs gangs, on a good warrant issued by Australia.
Tse Chi Lop - a good Chinese-born Canadian national - is reported to be the head of THE BUSINESS, which dominates a $70bn against the law drugs industry across Asia.
Listed among the world's most sought fugitives, Mr Tse was detained by Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
Australia will now look for his extradition to handle trial there.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) believe THE BUSINESS, often known as the Sam Gor Syndicate, is accountable for up to 70% of most illegal drugs entering the country.
The 56-year-old has been when compared to Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as a result of the scale of his alleged enterprise.
Australian police had reportedly been tracking Mr Tse for greater than a decade before he was arrested on Fri as he was going to panel a flight to Canada.
A police statement, which did not name Mr Tse, said the arrest warrant was issued in 2019, with police in holland acting on an Interpol notice.
"He had been on the most-wanted list and he was detained based on cleverness we received," a Dutch law enforcement spokesman of the arrest Fri.
Reuters published a special investigation into Mr Tse found in 2019 - describing him seeing as "Asia's most wanted gentleman".
The news headlines agency cited UN estimates as saying the syndicate's earnings from methamphetamine sales alone could have been as high as $17bn in 2018.
Your time and effort to arrest Mr Tse, Operation Kungur, involved about 20 agencies from continents around the world with AFP taking the lead, according to Reuters.
Mr Tse is rumoured to have moved between Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan recently.
He previously spent nine years in prison immediately after being arrested on drug trafficking fees in the US in the 1990s.
Australian media defined his arrest as the "most important" for the country's federal government police in two decades.
