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The 14K has been among the most active triad societies in Canada, [21] maintaining a chapter in Toronto. [34] The 14K established its chapter in Toronto in 1976. [35] The 14K was reported in the 1970s to be recruiting actively within the Chinese-Canadian community as well bringing new members from Hong Kong. [36]
Wan Kuok-koi (Chinese: 尹國駒; pinyin: Yǐn Guójū; born 1955), popularly known as Broken Tooth Koi (崩牙駒; Cantonese: bung nga keui; Mandarin: bēng yá jū), [1] is a businessman and former leader of the Macau branch of the 14K triad. He was released after more than 14 years in prison in December 2012. [1]
A triad (traditional Chinese: 三合會; simplified Chinese: 三合会; Jyutping: saam1 hap6 wui6; Cantonese Yale: sāam hahp wúi; pinyin: sān hé huì) is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
14K may refer to: 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization; Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s; 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. 14K (Death Race), a fictional character in the Death Race film series.
On 15 January 2010, a 15-year-old boy was killed during a clash between 14K Triad and Shui Fong members at Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate. Fifteen people were arrested in connection with the boy's murder, aged 15 to 22. The victim died after being punched, kicked, and hit by glass bottles. [2] [3]
Tse was born in Hong Kong, where he was a member of the 14K Triad, [4] and became a naturalized American citizen in 1987 or 1988. [3] Tse moved from New York to Boston in the 1970s; his first criminal charge was in 1974 for a home invasion in Brookline. He served two years of a ten-year sentence.
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In the 1970s, the Triads entered Toronto with the two most important being the Big Circle Boys and the 14k Triad, both of Hong Kong, who smuggled in heroin from the "Golden Triangle" nations of Burma, Laos and Thailand. [107] Starting around about 1975, complaints about extortion by the Triads in Toronto's Chinatown became common. [108]