A Canadian man accused of heading a multi-billion-dollar global drug syndicate has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Australia after three years of secret, closed court hearings.

Tse Chi Lop, formerly of Toronto, was accused of being one of world’s biggest drug kingpins and called “Asia’s El Chapo” when a deluge of meth was flowing across the Asia-Pacific region.

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A global manhunt for the Chinese-born Canadian citizen ended when he was arrested at an airport in Amsterdam in 2021 as he tried to fly back to Canada. His extradition to face trial in Australia required a guarantee that he not face more than 25 years in prison. He arrived in Australia in December 2022.

On Thursday in court in Melbourne, when the doors were finally opened to the public and media, it se

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