Hours after a Sikh community leader was assassinated by two masked men in the parking lot of his temple in Canada, a senior Indian security officer sent a drug trafficker he knew a video of the blood-covered victim slumped over in his truck.
An hour later, he followed that up with the New York address of another Sikh activist he wanted killed.
The trafficker got right on it, according to U.S. prosecutors.
He passed on the video and other messages to a purported hit man who had already accepted a $15,000 advance payment for the contract killing on U.S. soil, and suggested there could be more such work.
“We have so many targets,” he told the hired gun, who he didn’t know was really an undercover U.S. law-enforcement officer.
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Locations:
Canada, Indian, York, U.S