The India-based gang behind Canada’s extortion crisis sent a letter to a B.C. police station last year boasting that it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings, a police officer revealed on Thursday.
Testifying at a deportation hearing, the extortion investigator described the letter from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was delivered to a police station in Abbotsford, B.C., on Aug. 13, 2025.
“Police actually received a letter addressed from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was sent to a police station,” Const. Kevin St. Louis told the Immigration and Refugee Board.
“This specific letter outlined essentially their criminal organization, where they talked about having upwards of 1,000 individuals that are willing to carry out these shootings as a part of the group,” he said.
“It also alludes to how every business needs to pay their tax, which I think clearly demonstrates the monetary gain that this group is looking to obtain as a result of these extortions.”
The Abbotsford Police Department confirmed the letter.
“Details of this letter were shared with our law enforcement partners engaged in combating the extortion crisis across Canada,” Sgt. Paul Walker told Global News.
“Detectives working in our internal AbbyPD extortion task force (Operation Community Shield) began to investigate the origin of this letter and the contents spoken about within,” he added.
“I’m not in a position to comment further on any of the details contained within the letter or investigative steps taken since.”
The letter emerged at a deportation hearing for an alleged member of an Edmonton-based extortion gang linked to violence in three provinces.
Appearing as a witness, St. Louis gave a rare briefing on the Bishnoi crime group, which was placed on Canada’s list of designated terrorist groups last September.
The Edmonton Police Service detective is a member of Project Al-Extortion, which is investigating organized crime targeting members of Alberta’s South Asian community.
Headed by Lawrence Bishnoi, who operates out of the Indian prison where he has been held since 2015, the crime group has set off a crime wave targeting South Asian Canadians.
To extort money from its victims, the Bishnoi gang relies on Indian nationals in Canada who are paid “small” amounts to conduct shootings but are also seeking a sense of belonging, the detective testified.
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“I think a lot of them look at it as kind of being a part of an organization or a group,” he told the Immigration and Refugee Board, adding “a lot of them are being targeted at schools.”
“Every individual that we’ve identified during this investigation is a temporary foreign worker or on a student visa and relatively new to Canada.”
“It sounds kind of funny to say but what we often see with criminal organizations and gangs is that it kind of gives you that feeling of being involved and sense of community when you’re with this specific group,” St. Louis said.
The extortion gangs contact South Asian business owners and individuals to demand large sums of money. If the victims do not pay, their homes and businesses are sprayed with gunfire, the officer said.
The demands for money are always made over WhatsApp, often referencing Lawrence Bishnoi or his one-time right-hand man Goldy Brar, he said.
But most of the calls come from another Bishnoi member named Jora Sidhu.
“The one consistent name actually making the extortions was Mr. Jora Sidhu,” St. Louis said. “We believe that Mr. Jora Sidhu was actually not in Canada while making these demands via WhatsApp.”
“That being said, we believe he was the primary individual who would take care of communications for this extortions,” the officer testified, adding the RCMP had identified him through voice-matching.
The Bishnoi group fractured last fall due to a falling out between its India-based namesake and Brar, his Canadian lieutenant. After that, the group’s tactics changed, he added.
Following the rift, gang members began shooting at homes and businesses without first contacting the owners to demand money, which he said reflected a degree of “disorganization.”
“I think one of the biggest changes that we saw was a change in the general modus operandi of these groups, and how they carried out these acts,” he said.
Copycat groups have also emerged, capitalizing on the fear of extortion gangs, he said. But while they name-drop the Bishnoi gang and its leaders, they do not conduct shootings, St. Louis said.
The officer also described the challenges faced by investigators, which include the use of encrypted messaging applications with international phone numbers.
The gangs also move firearms between provinces, making them “practically impossible” to trace. In one case, a gun was used in extortion shootings in two provinces within a 24-hour period, he said.
“The pace at which these firearms are being moved between different provinces made it very difficult to locate and seize many of these firearms,” the police detective said.
The testimony came at the deportation hearing of Jashandeep Singh, an alleged member of an extortion gang that has been linked to shootings in Alberta, B.C. and Ontario.
A video seized by police showed Singh aiming a gun at the head of another man, St. Louis said. The same firearm was linked to an extortion shooting in Surrey, B.C.
Singh appeared at his virtual deportation hearing from what looked like a bedroom, with a collection of stuffed animals behind him.
The case is the Canada Border Services Agency’s latest attempt to tackle the extortion crisis in Canadian cities by expelling those involved.
Provinces with large Canadian-Sikh populations have been worst-hit, notably B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
On Monday, Peel police announced the arrests of 17 suspected members of a gang called For Brothers that was extorting South Asian business owners.
But deportations have become the main tool against the extortion groups, since most members are not Canadians.
As of May 7, the CSA had opened 446 investigations into extortion suspects and issued 118 removal orders, while 55 had already been deported.
The bulk of the cases, 188, were in the Toronto region, followed by B.C. with 132 and the Prairies, where 126 investigations had been launched.
“When police identify individuals who may be in violation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, they notify the CBSA, which conducts immigration investigations that can lead to enforcement actions, including removal from Canada,” the CBSA said.
An internal RCMP report said the Bishnoi group also engages in murder-for-hire in Canada, and has been “acting on behalf of the Indian government.”
The RCMP believes the Bishnoi gang was hired by India to assassinate B.C. Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023 in an alleged act of transnational repression.
The Indian government allegedly targeted Nijjar because he was a leading activist in the Khalistan movement that seeks independence for India’s Punjab.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government was implicated in a second attempted assassination of a Canadian Khalistan activist who resides in New York.
More than a dozen other Canadians, most of them Khalistan movement activists, have been warned by police that their lives are in danger.
India denies any involvement, and as recently as this week its top envoy in Ottawa told the Globe and Mail that Canada’s national security agencies had been “compromised.”
Asked if India’s High Commissioner would be expelled for his remarks, Foreign Minister Anita Anand’s staff did not respond.
The Canadian government needs to stop letting these people in Canadians r getting killed cause the border trump should be our president cause he gets this done these people r robbing raping killing Canadians but they still get in they don’t even really do full checks on people coming in
send them and their familys back home
They SAY there’s a letter. It sounds like this came from a RELIABLE but as yet UNNAMED source.
Every one has a right to there opinion
What humiliation for the country of Canada!!!
Oh really but we have the world on our side plus the army evil always loses
I am sure every single one of those gang members have their PAL/RPAL and are using registered legally obtained guns … for crime.
Aint nothing a fighter jet cant fix. Get rid of em all in one shot.
This is the results of the LIBERALS open borders, The catch and release and no actual punishment ….. Thank you liberals you say Canada’s heading in a good Direction NO ITS NOT Bravo 👏
Nothing to worry about as Canadian police & intelligence agencies are able to handle these people. Good thing about Canada is that there is “No interference” from political leaders, in Police actions.
Pretty much domestic terrorism. It would justify holding public executions
It was and still is Canadian government, who was and still patronizing such criminals. Now canada facing the music.
How do they get into the country in the 1st place?? Our laws are sooo weak no wonder all the filth from around the world is showing up to take advantage of us!
Dont trust them. Dont hire them. Dont rent to them. Dont befriend them. Dont talk to them. They are not in Canada to become better, smarter, or aim higher. Our “government” immigrated low lifes. India’s criminals for the sake of a buck to get rid of a headache. When is it our turn to sell them off & ship them somewhere else? Thieves, liars, cheaters & murderers. Yet their in every call centre/bank collecting our personal information? We need to wake up Canada.
This is what immigration brings
Why have we ruined north America by trying to help immigrants who now have some of the worst violent gang members smashing and grabbing. If we did the same in there country we would be executed without a trial. Forget trying to help them and help the canadian citizen instead.
We will never recover from the Blackface Years.
They will go down as the worst decade Canada has ever experienced and the lingering rotten stench of Trudeau will waft forever from Coast to Coast to Coast.
Once again, JV’s only two functioning brain cells fighting with each other for last place but in the end I think we will have to call it a draw.
Unfortunately peoples rights seem secondary to criminals rights. That should change.
this is one of the reasons why Alberta wants to separate you elbows up losers
“Diversity is our strength” hahah!!! liberals have no brains
But it’s racist to point out the obvious issues that come with mass migration
Our government is part of it because it can easily have been stopped. They knew this has been a long standing war and could have not allowed any immigration by anyone from India. So why didn’t they is the question. Only someone who’s corrupt or wanting violence would allow immigrants from this country.
So I guess we should just start eliminating all of that race before things get out of hand.
Just wait for chinesse gangs , they are next thanks to Carney and liberal agenda
This is Carney liberal Canada now , elbows up , you get what you voted for
Thankyou Trudeau
Poorly vetted mass immigration by a federal government that went to great lengths to make Canada the post nationalist state it claimed it was. Thank Trudeau and his #welcometocanada style immigration system for what we sre seeing today.
You liberal elbows up wanted them here .. now this is what you get
Another reason, of so many, that I advised my daughter to move to another country to live safely.
I am am “middle” aged Canadian woman who was raised Proud of this amazing country.
As a child, the scariest political situation was the Cold War. Some years later, almost all Political Situations are frightening!
We no longer have a voice, we are told what to do, when to do, how to do, what to put up with, who to put up with, when to speak, when not to, what to say, not to say, basically be a robot!!!
And….the best part, be unsafe in the country you loved and respected. The country you sang the National Anthem every morning in school as gratitude for being on this land.
Now, worried about gangs from who knows where? How do we know where they are? Where they hang out? What they do?
Just my thoughts….
Take this point very seriously – the government of another country is involved in this. They have done this before with their neighbouring countries, now they are spreading their branch. These 1000 poorly trained/armed clowns should be made an example out of, by sending in the military if needed, so that the said country gets a clear message. Otherwise it will grow to a point where it can no longer be controlled. If you are short of people, I and many other Canadians will happily volunteer to fight for our country.
The report says that the gang leader Ravi Bishnoi is an Indian jail. How is he able to operate this global operation from a jail cell without a free hand from the Indian Government?
Police have the biggest number, not even including our military. There are also a few million legal gun owners who would step up to back up our police and military if needed. So the gang bangers should be careful who they try to intimidate and threaten.
It makes me so angry that they are threatening our police, and everyone here, can you imagine what would happen to us if we tried to do that in their country? Oh man, the retaliation, and the torture I can’t even imagine. But because of Trudeau they have that opportunity, come on PM Carney, do something this is far more threatening than Trump!
Not to say I “hate” them – I’m sure plenty of them are decent enough, hard-working people. Just way too many all at once, for the sake of appeasing foreign-owned corporations that want pseudo-slave labor for whom they can hold the threat of deportation over their head if they should step out of line. And literally just before AI and robots will render virtually all low-skill jobs obsolete.
Every native-born Canadian who can leave has either left already or is trying to get out and I’ll join them at the earliest opportunity. No future here. Why work your whole life to prop up a sinking ship? >50% effective tax rate at minimum wage and it goes up from there, to pay for great benefits like 6-24 month waitlists for minor operations, no doctors, police who aren’t allowed to do their job, a legal system that puts people with dozens of convictions back on the street with only a slap on the wrist (if that!), no future for our children, an economy that’s been deliberately crippled only for the benefit of maximizing our adversaries’ fossil fuel profits while we pay $2/L for gas we have to infrastructure to refine ourselves even if we wanted to, absolute reliance on the whims of our southern neighbor to be permitted to continue existing, and now millions of foreigners coming here and bringing their habits, culture, conflicts, and problems with them.
I sure am glad we imported millions of these people… folks who only picked Canada as a destination of last resort after every other country rejected them.
Great to see every young person born here unable to find a job – how long until the government gives newly-graduated girls a webcam and hairbrush and the boys a gun and a ticket to die for Israel?
I’ve never before heard such a compelling argument for remigration before.
Come for the news, stay for JV’s terrible takes.
Ane we let more and more if them in everyday. This is the new foreign work program. Thanks maybe people should start wondering why this happens and the party they vote for.
This government is a disgrace.
Liberal Canada is better than Naz1 Canada.
Alberta belongs to Canada!
Yep, welcome to liberal Canada. Alberta out!
Citizens need to start cleaning up the country… Gang members or not. Jeet gangs, pro Hamas “protests” for years now. Enough is enough.
Funny how these white nationalists in Canada call these Indian gang members terrorists. Meanwhile these white nationalists are the real terrorists in Canada. Talking about how they’re stocking up on illegal automatic weapons to ‘take the country back’… If that doesn’t sound like a terrorist I don’t know what does. Then they’ll talk about how they’re ‘Real Canadians’. You’re not a real Canadian. You’re just a Naz1 disguised as a Canadian. If you don’t like Canada the way it is then leave. You’re not welcome here anyways
Thank you Liberal Party of Canada for destroying mine and my children’s future in this country but importing millions of rejects that arent wanted anywhere else.
This all needs to stop… deportate them ALL now, they came here in masses… deportate them is masses!! Easy come easy go!!
They have ruined Canada.. get them out of here, so we can love Canada again as it was 10-20 years ago. Carney do you see? Do you hear? We are screaming… Please fix this mess that Trudeau did to us..
if they are not born here, get rid.
And this I know because I used to live a lifestyle where I knew a lot of these major connections that I say legit has now made such a strong foothold in Canada with what they are doing that Canada is in a very very bad way and they have people that if you took 300 guys down at once whatever there position was in the group like head of a cash house or head of money laundering house or 3d gun manufacturing house the have guys like I can’t even give a number a lot that when one goes down there is another ready to take control of that spot and that have like 200 or more for each house if one falls they always have another to fill the spot they are so well established now that they say by mid May they will be impossible to completely dismantle what they have created it’s sick and this country is in trouble it’s sad to see but like I said I know these people I am not these people and I have never involved myself in there doings I just know a crazy amount of people of all sorts and have met people through people so yes unless people come forward who know a lot and help the cause this is only going to get way worse not better it’s to far along for much to be done without critical info to help stop this sickness being brought to the attention of the authorities so as someone who can help I will do what I can while being as safe as possible but I say this to encourage anyone out there who cares about this country these people are seriously not being a part of its not worth it your life is in jeopardy at all times weather you stand with them or against them that life is not a joke you you are absolutely expendable to them at all times even if they tell you your not but your family is in danger as well being a part of these people you will get caught at some point if you have information that can help stop this sickness spreading fast please thing about your life and your families that life is not worth it reach out and help stop this sickness so you can still live in a country that is great it can’t get better if people stand by and do nothing because while you are they are only getting bigger and bigger do the right thing please help your country get back on the right track
Are these the same guys who are coming to take me to “Canada jail”?
Yep, sounds about right. Let’s flood our country with more . Derka Derka
I love how the people in the comment section blame the government. When I see these same people hugging and kissing the very same people they are complaining about. When they first came here 10-15 years ago. You welcomed them with loving arms and told others to be quite. So… Now it’s you who needs to shut up live with what you have sowed while munching on your Samosas and butter chicken.
Time to call in military and eradicate them!
Ya and this is not a joke by any means they do and so much more and fire power that would make tactical agents drool these people and another group have so many people all across Canada that they say by mid 2027 that no matter what law enforcement does they will have enough fall back guys if there guys get busted that they will be unstoppable with international weapons trafficking and drugs being imported by cartel connection this country is in a very very bad way and there correctional facilities are infiltrated so bad they are breeding grounds to recruit more to there cause it’s crazy
Tell me we don’t have an INDIAN problem in Canada, when there are signs in Hindi in the hospital in Abbotsford.
Maybe those numbers should be thinned.
@SoonMinority: lock n loaded, brother.
How are these Indians getting into Canada, certainly some of those coming to Canada have criminal records. Why is our “vetting” so bad? Time to close the doors to Indian immigrants; only let those in that have degrees, and/or post secondary education. We have hard enough time policing Canadian criminals let alone Indian criminals coming to Canada.
A few more years of this and racial tensions are going to come to a boiling point. Every day more and more Canadians are exposed to this filth and eventually enough is going to be enough. I encourage all true Canadians to arm themselves for what’s coming.
Isn’t it awesome that Trudeau and Carney let these types immigrate to Canada. Way to go Liberal voters.
Equality!
Another solid reason to close the doors of immigration. We absolutely do not need other cultures bringing their penchant for violence and organized crime to our once peaceful country.
We’re living in a post Trudeau apocalypse everyone. Terrorists killing people left and right in broad daylight. Quick run for your life!
Hahahahaha oh man that is funny
More fallout from Trudeau’s immigration policy that basically allowed all these immigrant terrorists into this country to extort , kill whomever . Never saw this continued level of violence before Trudeau and his Liberal Hacks .
Maybe we should start with killing them
Round them all up and send them all packing. The fatigue is very real and we’ve had more than enough of this massively failed experiment called “diversity is our strength”…All this time I thought it was unity, not diversity, that was our strength…
I wonder how many of them are in and trained by our own military under the genius policy of Liberals giving PRs and noncitizens military fast track to citizenship…
…and they should all be deported.
and yet our government is spending billions to take guns away from lawful gun owners that on a percentage basis, are responsible for a fraction of a percent of the gun violence in this country. well done liberal government.
It seems about 98 % of problems in Canada are caused by south asians, why are we bringing more in ????
Gangsters do not show their cards. Gangsters do not threaten. This is a teenage wanna be. Probably not even in the gang. He will be arrested soon. Dumb ones always are.
So there is this book called Camp of the Saints….
White people panicking is a wonderful and deserved thing.
Man cant even itemize what the problem is with Canada. The picture says it all! How did this happen? Why, the Liberals of course! THEY OPENED THE DOOR TO THIS! Namely TRUDEAU!!
Wonder why Canada is such a ghetto now? A third world hole? That pic right there explains it all! Nevermind the deaths in ERS, the taxation, the crisis we have, starving people. NOOO censorship that truth! F*CK YOU GLOBAL:!
Immediate, within 8 hrs of being arrested? Deportation. This gang should be called a terrorist organization for quicker deportation rules. If you come to anyone’s country and commit a crime no jail here, deportation. Logic has escaped law and politics.
There is 100,000 bullets waiting for them
Wow, censorship is rank. Ok. I’ll be nice. The L——– have done this to Canada. C——– has done this alone, with T———. F——–has come to roost in Canada and its a hunch backed rotten tooth little ex banker demon.
If this is true, all I have to say, is that the people responsible for these groups as well as their families members get sent home to their original countries. If these groups families want to stay in Canada, which Canada welcomes most foreigner with open arms.
They need to give up the names of these terrorist responsible or be deported. This goes for any of these groups of foreigners that wish to prey on the same Canadians that welcomed them to our great country.
I do feel bad for the families but thus can’t continue.
What did you expect? Other countries have been sending their criminals to Canada and claim refugee status because a plane ticket it is a whole lot cheaper than keeping a criminal in their own country in a jail for years.
Every naturalized citizen who undermines Canadian society by engaging in such despicable criminal behavior should have their citizenship revoked and be quickly deported.
Jagmeet Singh is a wanted terroist sympathizer
He served as the leader of the NDP with the full blessing of the Canadian government
Now they actually expect to be taken seriously when they pretend to care about the safety of Canadians
Our new Canada thanks a lot lib voters
Thank you Justin Trudeau good job idiot
The only good Muslim is an unalived muslim
Those Cowards (may be deported)???!!
Wth! does that mean?? Get everyone of those dirty Azzes out of Canada Now!! No more slap on the wrist!! Why is Carney and the Liberals so devout on keeping those foreign Freaks in Canada!?
this is what happens when you turn Canada into a third world s**t hole with your mass immigration… thanks liberal’s
I would take these claims with a grain of salt, in other words they are full of poo. I hope the good indian people of Canada take notice, turn any baddies in or you will be painted with the same brush.
Sorry but Just crack down on the entire community. They are the perps and victims. This is community on community crime. Make them finally turn them in and rat them out. Visa’s, immigration etc. we only need the honest ones.
This is not a Canadian problem!
Canada has enough home grown criminals why are we importing more ?
The Trudeau legacy is “The Family That Destroyed Canada” welcome to Canindia.
Deportation is not effective , they simply return one way or another .Jail appears to be the only effective option .
Thanks Trudeau!
When you bring in the third-world, you become a third-world! Just round up all these filthy, inbred rats into a massive cage and dump them into the Atlantic ocean!!
Ice them.
In the original meaning,not I.C.E.
Time to hit the lever in Canada and swirl the turds
First,Great job Trudeau. Your B.S. gun grab has only affected law abiding citizens while criminal shootings have increased substantially.
You allowed this trash into the country in droves.
You Trudeau, are responsible for this disaster.Your idiotic ideas and absurdly ridiculous progressive stupidity have brought nothing but problems and grief to this country and every stooge that has voted or supported you and your ship of fools holds a potion of accountability for this dumpster fire.
Is Diversity still our strength?
Forgot to mention – on the other hand, the US just had its sharpest decline in violent crime in history, due to Trump having secured the southern border.
Biden’s admin was obviously in with the cartels. Who knows how many rapes and murders are they culpable for.
And despite all this (and I’m sure it’s worse than the media is willing to say) the feds still want to disarm law abiding Canadians. They must be in on the action.
i guess diversity is not Canadas greatest strength after all is it??? this is making Canada into a third world s**t hole
We need a new agency that focuses on deportation enforcement. I will sign up and even work for minimum wage if it means we get our country back.
This is the kind of garbage the Liberals led into this country
Enough of this. Time to start shooting the fckers.
Canada is lost
This level of violence was never in Canada until the progressive idealogy got into government, now this is just a Thursday.
I am so sick of our country being abused this way, there needs to be massive deportations to get everything back in line again and working as intended.
If you can’t prove you are a Canadian citizen before 2015, deported, simply because you broke the law to get here and now you are breaking our laws staying here and doing whatever you want.
2015 is when the progressive liberal government and trudeau at the head thought it was a great idea to throw the gates open
And let’s not forget about the khalistani terrorists that still reside within Canada and are now having rallies saying Canada isn’t for Canadians anymore