July 16, 2025
RED FM News Desk
According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court, Surrey gangster Opinder Singh Sian was a key figure in a massive conspiracy to import precursor chemicals from China and export narcotics through the port of Los Angeles to Australia.
Sian was a well-known individual within Vancouver’s organized crime circles, associated with the Brothers Keepers gang. He notably survived two shooting attempts in 2008 and 2011.
In 2022, Sian became involved in a plot originating in Ankara, Turkey. Court documents reveal that a special agent with the DEA’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Group 48 (HIDTA 48), which investigates large-scale drug trafficking organizations, was brought in to investigate the operation.
Around June 2022, the DEA’s Turkey office received a lead about an opportunity to insert a confidential source to act as an international transportation coordinator within the drug trafficking organization. This role would involve transporting drugs from Southern California to Australia and other destinations. The confidential source subsequently had phone conversations with a member of the drug trafficking organization in Turkey, and then with Sian.
As part of the scheme, four shipments of methamphetamine were arranged for the confidential source in Southern California for onward shipment to Australia. These shipments included approximately 30 pounds of meth on June 22, 2023, 200 pounds on July 6, 2023, 100 pounds on August 21, 2023, and another 200 pounds on August 28, 2023.
After the pickups, the confidential source led Sian and his associates to believe that their drugs were safely stored until they could be shipped from Los Angeles to Australia.
However, upon the drugs’ arrival in Australia, authorities replaced the real narcotics with fake drugs and concealed tracking devices inside the packages. The fake drugs were then driven to a stash house, where DEA officers in Australia subsequently raided the location and arrested the receiving couriers.
According to the affidavit, Sian believed he was moving hundreds of kilograms of meth. However, the DEA intercepted all of it, sending the fake products to Sydney, where Australian law enforcement successfully tracked them to their destination and made arrests. Court documents further allege that Sian was involved in the purchase of precursor chemicals from China and their distribution to Mexican Cartels.
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