U.S. prosecutors charged alleged Indian gang members with directing the 2023 assassination of a prominent Sikh activist in Vancouver, a killing that prompted a diplomatic crisis between India and Canada.
The finding is the result of a multiyear investigation by U.S. and international law enforcement agencies into India-linked organized crime groups, which resulted Tuesday in three indictments and charges against 37 people, U.S. and Canadian law-enforcement officials said.
One of the groups allegedly was led by Lawrence Bishnoi, who U.S. law enforcement officials said was able to oversee a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking and extortion business in North America from a prison cell in India. Bishnoi is accused one of the indictments of directing the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a British Columbia-based activist who campaigned for an independent Sikh state in India.
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