CBSA removes 81 individuals linked to extortion from Canada since August 2025
Published 11:48 am Friday, June 26, 2026
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has removed 81 people from Canada since August 2025 who have been linked to “extortion-related activities.”
In the latest update, issued Thursday (June 25), the CBSA stated that the majority of those removed have been in the Pacific region, which includes B.C. and the Yukon. In total, 46 individuals were in the Pacific region, 17 in the Greater Toronto Area, and 18 in the Prairie region.
The CBSA is part of a B.C. extortion task force that was launched in September 2025. The task force is made up of 40 officers from the B.C. RCMP, Abbotsford Police Department, Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – B.C. (CFSEU-BC), Delta Police Department, Metro Vancouver Transit Police and Surrey Police Service. It also receives support from the federal RCMP National Co-ordination and Support Team.
A month before the task force was officially launched, the CBSA “implemented enhanced tracking of immigration enforcement cases” that had potential links to extortion in B.C., Alberta and later the Toronto area.
“When police identify individuals who may be in violation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), they refer these cases to the CBSA for investigation, which may result in enforcement actions, including removal from Canada,” reads the update. “In relation to this work, as of June 18, 2026, the CBSA has opened 484 immigration investigations, 139 removal orders have been issued on various inadmissibility grounds and are in the process of being enforced, with 81 individuals having already been removed from Canada,” reads the CBSA update.
In Surrey, there have been 128 reported extortions, 20 extortion-related shootings, two arsons and 70 victims, 34 of which are repeat victims, in 2026.
Erin O’Gorman, president of Canada Border Services Agency, said, “The CBSA is working side by side with other law enforcement partners to counter extortion, disrupt criminal networks, and prevent further harm to our communities. We are committed to ensuring that individuals involved in these activities cannot find safe haven in Canada.”
On Thursday (June 25), the Surrey Police stated in a press release that the CBSA had two men in its custody in connection with the June 11 extortion-related shooting in the City Centre neighbourhood.
Arman Singh, 21, and Simarjeet Singh, 22, have been charged with one count of reckless discharge of a firearm each. The other two men have not been charged with a criminal offence “at this time,” but as they are foreign nationals, they are in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), police said. As Arman and Simarjeet are also foreign nationals, the Surrey police have also been in contact with the CBSA about them as well.
In 2025, the CBSA removed 23,160 people from Canada for various reasons. Over 1,000 of those were deemed inadmissible for “serious criminality,” which included national security, war crimes or human rights violations, organized crime, and criminality.
Around 400 people are removed from Canada each week after being deemed inadmissible.
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China removes 6 generals from legislature as military anti-corruption drive continues
Apart from the senior commanders, the former Xinjiang party chief and a senior financial regulator were also stripped of their status
According to a late-night notice issued by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee on Friday, 13 members of the legislature had been removed and one had resigned.
There had already been indications that some of the dismissed People’s Liberation Army commanders were under investigation.
General Xu Xueqiang, from the Central Military Commission’s Equipment Development Department, missed a major party meeting in October.
Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Wang Kangping, from the Eastern Theatre Command, did attend the meeting but was passed over for promotion to full membership of the party’s Central Committee.
Another one of those dismissed, Lieutenant General Yin Hongxing, the political commissar of the Tibet Military Command, was missing when Xi carried out a surprise inspection in the western region last August.
The other three commanders removed on Friday were General Li Fengbiao, the political commissar of the Western Theatre Command; General Guo Puxiao, the political commissar of the air force; and Lieutenant General Zhang Minghua, from the cyberspace force.
Some have been placed under investigation for corruption while others have disappeared from public view without explanation.
Of the seven members of the Central Military Commission named at the party’s national congress in 2022, only two remain – Xi and the PLA’s anti-corruption chief, Zhang Shengmin.
Xi has stressed on multiple occasions that the anti-corruption fight in the military will not stop.
“The armed forces wield the gun. There must never be room in the military for those half-hearted towards the party, nor any sanctuary for the corrupt,” he told the annual meeting of the legislature and China’s top political advisory body in March.
The other legislators who were removed included Ma Xingrui, a former member of the Politburo and party boss of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, and his protege Guo Yonghang, the former Guangzhou party secretary.
Li Yunze, the former director of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, has also been removed from the legislature.
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