Who is Thomas Cherukara? Canadian executed in Xcaret would be linked to a Vietnamese drug trafficker and target of the DEA

The Quintana Roo State Prosecutor’s Office said that it was only a direct attack that went beyond the dispute between the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel in the tourist paradise of Mexico.

Robert James Dinh, one of the two Canadians executed at the Xcaret hotel in Quintana Roo, will be linked to the ringleader Cong Dinh, a criminal target of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for allegedly obtaining drugs, laundering millions of dollars in trafficking like vietnamese mafia. Leader.

According to local reports, the 34-year-old was the right-hand man of a police officer who offered $50,000 in December 2019, but is accused of leading a group to send large amounts of ecstasy and marijuana to the southern United States and cocaine to the north. Canada.

The Quintana Roo State Prosecutor’s Office only reported that Robert James Ding had a long criminal record in his country of origin, and that the first person killed after the January 20 shooting at the Thomas Cherukara tourist complex was linked to drug trafficking, robbery, related to weapons, crimes against property and use of false identity.

The crime boss, who has been laundering money since 2009, was connected through a money transfer system from Vancouver to California, where the money was dropped off at stores like Starbucks.

A woman identified as Ceara Jessica Sahadee Yari, 29, was also injured with a firearm in the incident in the Riviera Maya Unity Municipality. The authorities did not report her serious condition after the foreigners were attacked with five bullets by hotel guests and an argument broke out.

One of the victims’ links to Kangding is notable because Canadian police and the Drug Enforcement Agency are targeting the transnational criminal organization, whose links have been found in Mexico, California, Australia, Vietnam and on the streets. territory.

According to the investigation, the leader of the criminal faction has been persecuted since 2009, but charges were not filed against him in a California court until 2013, and his boss, Minh Nguyen, pleaded guilty. When the awards were announced just over two years ago, Canadian authorities said Cong Dinh was charged with five counts of money laundering and one count of possession of property obtained through ill-gotten gains.

The prosecutor of the state of Quintana Roo, Óscar Montes de Oca, said that the attack was a direct aggression and suggested that the case went beyond other shootings in hotels in which tourists from the Sinaloa Cartel and assailants from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel died. in that controversy called Tourist Paradise.

Therefore, international executions are assumed to take place on foreign soil due to clashes between groups and groups operating in another part of the world. But the official did not emphasize that the reach of the Vietnamese-Canadian group was already inside Mexico through drug trafficking, without taking into account the two largest cartels in the country that send drugs to the United States, Canada, Europe and South America.

A photo posted before the shooting showed the gunman walking with a victim.

The attacker was also allegedly staying at the Xcaret Hotel, but got into an argument and then opened fire. White cars entering the facility will take the guns.

After scaring other tourists, the man in tracksuits entered the jungle of the theme park near Federal Highway 307, which connects Playa del Carmen with Tulum. Although he was wanted by agents of the State, the Army and the National Guard, his detention was not recorded.

The CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel not only operate in the Riviera Maya, but have also harbored for years the Romanian mafia linked to ATM robberies and credit card fraud. Executions of people linked to criminals from Vietnam and Canada are now reported, but no emphasis has been placed on how they were established, how they entered Mexico with a criminal record, or how they entered from Quintana Roo with Mexican intentions.