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Sun Yee On was allegedly taken over by his eldest son Heung Wah-yim, who ostensibly worked as a law clerk. [4] The triad is also noted as being founded by "Teochew and Hokkien immigrants" to Hong Kong. [6] Map of countries with branches or operations of the Sun Yee On Triad reported by law enforcement or in the news.
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. They are the main rival of the Sun Yee On, which is the largest triad. [7]
Georcge Cheung himself had been initiated into the Triad in the basement of the Princess Garden Restaurant on Greyhound Road, Fulham earlier that year. [12] Lam, who was allegedly attempting to take control of the Shui Fong in the UK, was left crippled after being shot four times in Chinatown , London on 7 September 1991.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that Sam Gor generated between $8 billion and $17.7 billion in revenue from meth in 2018 and that the triad had "expanded at least fourfold in the past five years". [10] In October 2020, Lee Ching Chak was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2022 he was extradited to Australia. [15] [16] [17]
There were four main groups of triads—the Chiu Chow Group (including Sun Yee On), 14K, the Wo Group (including Wo Shing Wo), and the Sze Tai (Luen Group, Tan Yee, Macau Chai, Tung Group), the Big Four in Chinese—operating in Hong Kong. [26] They divided land by ethnic group and geographic locations, with each triad in charge of a region.
The Sun Yee On, led by chairman ‘Uncle Po’, is an influential Triad organization which, like its Hong Kong affiliates, is a highly organized criminal syndicate involved in white-collar crime as well as owning legitimate businesses [citation needed], specifically in the entertainment industry [citation needed] a key red pole ‘Teflon’ Dyl ...
Truancy and juvenile crime were high, various narcotics were widespread, and the Sun Yee On triad had a powerful grip over the area. He was raised with his father, stepmother, and four siblings in a 450-square-foot apartment in the Tai Hing House. His biological mother had left when he was three to live with another man.
Charles and Jimmy Heung were often hailed as two of Hong Kong's most successful presenters/producers, and one of the most controversial due to his family's triad background. Heung is widely suspected of ties to one of Hong Kong's largest and most powerful organized crime groups, the Sun Yee On Triad.