RCMP are set to hold a news conference Monday afternoon to provide an update on escaped fugitive Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil, who escaped from a B.C. prison in 2022 and has been on the loose ever since.

Alkhalil, originally from Montreal, was being held in the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, B.C., on murder charges when he escaped on July 21, 2022.

The 38-year-old, who has an extensive criminal record and was convicted in a 2012 Toronto murder as well as a murder in Vancouver that same year, was a member of Canada's most wanted list after the escape.

Police say he has gang and drug trafficking links , and Alkhalil was the subject of an Interpol red notice.

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