Pacific drug links, Chinese shadow banking and Organised crime as a geopolitical problem

Samoa drug raids reach 20 this year, as countrymen caught up in gang hit

Samoa’s acting police commissioner says police have carried out 20 drug raids in the first five months of the year, amid regional worry on drug trafficking.

The Samoa Observer reported Leiataua Samuelu Afamasaga made the comments during a press conference last week, where local reporters were shown items seized during the raids, which happened between 29 January and 26 May.

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These included firearms, marijuana plants, methamphetamine, drug utensils and prescribed bottles containing drugs confiscated at the border.

The raids resulted in the seizure of just over 100 grams of methamphetamine.

A total of 55 people have been charged in relation to the raids.

RNZ

You will remember that it was TDB who was pointing out that despite decades of being fear mongered by our Politicians about domestic gang violence, we argued our domestic organised crime were not in the same league of criminal sophistication as Australia’s crime culture and that the 501s being forced back here were forming syndicates and standing over the local gangs and that this presented a unique danger to NZ because our local thick-o cops have no capacity to deal with organised crime that uses counter-intelligence tactics.

TDB argued that we faced a unique threat with 501 syndicates using their South American Cartel links to import cheaper and more pure meth and that these syndicates were using extreme violence against local gang chapters and were patching them over.

TDB argued that this posed a unique threat because South American Cartels are so powerful and sophisticated, they could do enormous damage here.

Instead the Government decided to waste time and energy on banning gang patches and pretending that somehow solves organised crime.

If we were serious about cracking down on organised crime and not just paying lip service to it, we would hire 100 Mandarin speaking police officers.

The biggest reason why the spike in meth is occurring is because the Chinese are deeply involved.

What we refuse to acknowledge because our Fourth Estate media is dead, is that Shadow Chinese Banking services have created the infrastructure for the 501 syndicates in NZ to pay South American Cartels directly via Shadow Chinese Banking services.

The expose in the Financial Times at how wide spread Chinese shadow banking for criminal organisations has become also notes Auckland in the global chain of this criminal empire.

Let me spell it out incase you are missing my point.

SHUT. DOWN. THE. CHINESE. SHADOW. BANKING. SERVICES!

They are providing banking infrastructure to the cartels FFS, that’s why we are flooded with Meth – because the suppliers and the dealers can easily  transfer the money to buy and sell the meth, that means all they need to do is smuggle in the product without worrying about moving the cash around.

It makes the drug dealing very easy and the Chinese have a vested interest in it beyond addicting the Pacific nations.

NZ was slow to understand what was happening with the influx of 501s.

NZ was slow to comprehend that as much as we had been telling people our gangs were bad, they weren’t in the same league of extreme violence and criminals sophistication of those who were being forced here.

NZ is not seeing the link between Chinese shadow banking, 501 syndicates and South American Cartels.

If we want people off meth, we have to have fully funded 3month rehabilitation programmes that we can fund from a legalised cannabis market.

Otherwise meth addiction will rise and the South American Cartels will get a foot in our door. Bribing Police and Judges will be next, we are already seeing this in Corrections and Border Controls.

Nothing National is suggesting by banning Gang Patches or Military Boot Camps is anything more than virtue signalling rhetoric for their frightened electorate.

It’s more important to bash Māori gangs and promise retribution against them than it is it actually deal to the financial structure of Chinese shadow banking that is enabling 501 syndicates to profit from the billion dollar meth trade.