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The 14K (十四K sap sei kei, [sap̚sɛjkɛj]) is a triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest triad group in the world with around 20,000 members split into thirty subgroups.
Sun Yee On was founded by Heung Chin [], originally from Teochew (Chaozhou), in 1919. [4] Yee On (Chinese: 義安; Jyutping: ji 6 on 1; Cantonese Yale: yih ōn) is a historical name for Chaozhou.
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]
By this stage, the Bamboo Union was fast developing into a transnational crime syndicate or "triad". For example, leader Chang An-lo, nicknamed "White Wolf," moved to Las Vegas in 1968 to study and keep order of the Bamboo Union's expanding empire, particularly in the Chinatowns of California and the gambling halls of Las Vegas. [7]
Wan Kuok-koi (Chinese: 尹國駒; born 1955), popularly known as Broken Tooth Koi (崩牙駒), [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]
British authorities finally began to crack down on Triad activity during the early 1990s and, although law enforcement had been battling the Triads for some time, their first insight on the Triad structure and influence in British society came during the 1993 trial of George Cheung Wai-hen, an assassin for the Wo On Lok turned government ...
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.