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#22488440 at 2025-02-02 01:39:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27490: Saturday Night Special Edition
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305085005/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/12/nyregion/chinatown-gang-leader-to-be-returned-to-us.html
Chinatown Gang Leader to Be Returned to U.S.
April 12, 1994
Guo Liang Chi, who authorities say was the leader of the Chinatown gang most deeply involved in the smuggling of illegal immigrants from China, agreed in a Hong Kong court yesterday to a request by the United States for his extradition.
Federal investigators acknowledge that they are less interested in prosecuting Mr. Guo than in hearing what he has to say. Two law-enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that Mr. Guo had agreed to an arrangement under which he will provide information about Asian businessmen who run alien-smuggling rings and other organized crime operations. In exchange, prosecutors are expected to seek leniency for him in court, but the officials said they did not know the details of the agreement.
Among other things, American officials believe that Mr. Guo, who is expected to arrive in New York within days, may give them new information on links between the smugglers and government officials in Taiwan and in mainland China. Law-enforcement officials have long suspected that some corrupt officials in those countries are involved in the illegal-alien trade, though it is not clear whether American officials believe that such corruption involves any high-level officials.
Widely known by his street name, Ah Kay, the 28-year-old Mr. Guo faces Federal charges that he ordered or conspired in six murders, a series of kidnappings and a scheme to smuggle immigrants as head of the Fuk Ching, an unusually violent gang that he ran for several years before it was dismantled by a wave of arrests last August.
Smuggling operations, Federal investigators say, are run by loose networks of businessmen who rely on associates on both sides of the Pacific Ocean to help recruit, transport and collect a $30,000 fee from each of the immigrants, who often work at low-paying jobs for years to pay their debts. Among those associates, investigators say, are businessmen and government officials in Taiwan and local police in China's Fujian Province.
A spokesman for the Chinese Consulate in New York denied that his government tolerated the smuggling of illegal immigrants. He cited an official Chinese news release in February about the sentencing of 18 smugglers in Fujian Province, where the vast majority of illegal Chinese immigrants come from. Efforts to reach Taiwanese officials last night were unsuccessful.
Chauncey Parker, the Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting the Fuk Ching case, declined to discuss whether any plea bargain agreement was reached with Mr. Guo, whose name is sometimes spelled Kwok Ling-kay. But three other officials said Mr. Parker traveled to Hong Kong in February to work out the terms of an agreement with Mr. Guo. Robert S. Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics, was in Hong Kong at the same time.
#8087284 at 2020-02-10 03:03:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10352: Nightshift At The Oscars Edition
>>8087270
How a Betrayal Snagged a Chinese Gang Leader
Aug. 31, 1993
Guo Liang Chi thought he was talking to a friend when he described how he had ordered the murder of two of his trusted lieutenants in Chinatown last January. "Do it," he said, according to Federal transcripts of a secretly taped conversation. "Do a clean job."
Speaking by telephone in February from a hiding place in China, he recounted how he had given the command, and explained why they had to die – they had challenged him for a heftier cut of the huge profits their gang was earning from smuggling Chinese immigrants. But the friend, it turned out, was an informer, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation taped the call. Rare Look at Gang Life
The brutal simplicity of that execution order was just one of the elements about life within a violent Chinatown gang that emerged yesterday as Federal authorities, after more than two years of investigation, unveiled what they described as conclusive evidence that will finally put Mr. Guo, the leader of the Fuk Ching gang, away for life. The smoking gun, described in the Federal complaint against Mr. Guo, is a taped conversation in February between the gang leader and a confidential informer. Mr. Guo was already in Fujian Province in China, where he fled in January after the killing.
Mr. Guo was arrested in a restaurant in Hong Kong on Friday, and the charges, unsealed in Federal court yesterday, were for murder and conspiracy to murder. Although Mr. Guo had become the F.B.I.'s most wanted Asian gang leader for his role in smuggling human cargo, they wanted to nail him on a murder charge first. It is a charge that would be easier to prove and would carry a longer sentence.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/31/nyregion/how-a-betrayal-snagged-a-chinese-gang-leader.html