Bindy Johal
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Bindy Johal (January 14, 1971 - December 20, 1998) was a notorious Vancouver
-based Indo-Canadian organized crime leader who was born in India, and came to Vancouver, B.C when he was young. Johal began to associate with those involved in a criminal lifestyle, which ultimately led to his demise. Johal was murdered on December 20, 1998 at the Palladium nightclub in downtown Vancouver. He sustained a single point-blank gunshot to the back of the head while in the midst of over 300 dancing club patrons. Johal died at about 4:30am on Dec 20 from the single gunshot. For reasons unknown, Johal had not brought his bodyguards with him to the club, despite being threatened several times.
Throughout the 1990s, Johal headed a violent criminal organization in British Columbia
. He co founded the group "Indo-Canadian Mafia", which apparently had several branches, each carrying out different types of activities. His criminal endeavours included the illicit narcotics trade, fraud, contract murder, money laundering, extortion and racketeering.
Johal's temper was legendary; in 1989, he received a sixty-day sentence and was kicked out of school for beating up his vice-principal at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary. Bindy's excuse for this behavior was that the majority was treating him with discrimination and racism, which he stood against. Bindy eventually failed to graduate at Matthew McNair Secondary after relocating to Richmond, BC. He was convicted of possession of a dangerous weapon after he smashed the passenger window of a car. Johal was suspected in the murders of several, including several of his own friends. In 1997, he was sentenced to 16 months for viciously attacking two men in a bar with a broken beer bottle.
In the mid-1990s, Johal would often be on primetime news exchanging threats with rival mobsters. He is seen briefly in two separate documentaries on-line, and makes threats towards rivals on camera. Before the murder of Bindy Johal, the Johal organization's annual earnings were between $3 million to $4 million.
Bindy Johals "Indo-Canadian Mafia" was bringing in money from not only the illegal drug trade, but also through the operation of a sophisticated stolen car chop shop. The gang would also have truck drivers who would pretend the cargo got stolen out of the trailers, only to have the gang take it and sell it on the streets. Johal's activities brought his organization into direct confrontation with the Chinese criminal organization, the Lotus Triads. Early speculation by the Vancouver Police Department
and local media placed blame on the Lotus Triads for Johal's murder, as the group had put a $250,000 bounty on his head for an earlier kidnapping and extortion operation conducted by Johal against the Triads..
Johal was suspected in the murders of several Indo-Canadians, including the case involving Vancouver's original Indo-Canadian gangsters - the Dosanjh brothers. Jimsher (Jimmy),26 and Ranjit (Ron) Dosanjh,29 were gunned down in February and April of 1994. After Jimmy's shooting death in February, Ron and Bindy would be challenging each other, often on prime-time news. Johal: "Basically, I jus' want these guys to know you got another thing coming b**ch". "Well, he wasn't around much longer" was the remark made by a CNN reporter. Ron Dosanjh was eventually killed in a brazen rush hour drive-by shooting on Kingsway Street in Vancouver in April 1994. His red pick up truck ended up against a tree after the shooting with a high powered rifle. Johal, and his co-accused went to trial in the Dosanjh murders on February 27, 1995. This trial was one of the most costly, complicated, and longest trials in B.C. Johal was tried, but later acquitted in this 1st degree murder x 2 trial. This trial was also one of the most infamous after one of the co-accused was suspected of being intimately involved with a juror.
It was later revealed that Johal was killed on the orders of his trusted lieutenant, Bal Buttar, who observed that Johal was losing personal control and was killing off his own associates. According to Buttar, Johal founded a shadowy five-member hit squad called "The Elite" which would be paid up to $25,000 per hit that Buttar said was responsible for 25 to 30 murders. After Johal's death Buttar then assumed full control of the criminal organization before becoming a blind quadriplegic as a result of a botched attempt on his life in 2001..
Vancouver
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-based Indo-Canadian organized crime leader who was born in India, and came to Vancouver, B.C when he was young. Johal began to associate with those involved in a criminal lifestyle, which ultimately led to his demise. Johal was murdered on December 20, 1998 at the Palladium nightclub in downtown Vancouver. He sustained a single point-blank gunshot to the back of the head while in the midst of over 300 dancing club patrons. Johal died at about 4:30am on Dec 20 from the single gunshot. For reasons unknown, Johal had not brought his bodyguards with him to the club, despite being threatened several times.
Throughout the 1990s, Johal headed a violent criminal organization in British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
. He co founded the group "Indo-Canadian Mafia", which apparently had several branches, each carrying out different types of activities. His criminal endeavours included the illicit narcotics trade, fraud, contract murder, money laundering, extortion and racketeering.
Johal's temper was legendary; in 1989, he received a sixty-day sentence and was kicked out of school for beating up his vice-principal at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary. Bindy's excuse for this behavior was that the majority was treating him with discrimination and racism, which he stood against. Bindy eventually failed to graduate at Matthew McNair Secondary after relocating to Richmond, BC. He was convicted of possession of a dangerous weapon after he smashed the passenger window of a car. Johal was suspected in the murders of several, including several of his own friends. In 1997, he was sentenced to 16 months for viciously attacking two men in a bar with a broken beer bottle.
In the mid-1990s, Johal would often be on primetime news exchanging threats with rival mobsters. He is seen briefly in two separate documentaries on-line, and makes threats towards rivals on camera. Before the murder of Bindy Johal, the Johal organization's annual earnings were between $3 million to $4 million.
Bindy Johals "Indo-Canadian Mafia" was bringing in money from not only the illegal drug trade, but also through the operation of a sophisticated stolen car chop shop. The gang would also have truck drivers who would pretend the cargo got stolen out of the trailers, only to have the gang take it and sell it on the streets. Johal's activities brought his organization into direct confrontation with the Chinese criminal organization, the Lotus Triads. Early speculation by the Vancouver Police Department
Vancouver Police Department
The Vancouver Police Department is the police force for the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second largest police force in the province after RCMP "E" Division.VPD was the first Canadian police force...
and local media placed blame on the Lotus Triads for Johal's murder, as the group had put a $250,000 bounty on his head for an earlier kidnapping and extortion operation conducted by Johal against the Triads..
Johal was suspected in the murders of several Indo-Canadians, including the case involving Vancouver's original Indo-Canadian gangsters - the Dosanjh brothers. Jimsher (Jimmy),26 and Ranjit (Ron) Dosanjh,29 were gunned down in February and April of 1994. After Jimmy's shooting death in February, Ron and Bindy would be challenging each other, often on prime-time news. Johal: "Basically, I jus' want these guys to know you got another thing coming b**ch". "Well, he wasn't around much longer" was the remark made by a CNN reporter. Ron Dosanjh was eventually killed in a brazen rush hour drive-by shooting on Kingsway Street in Vancouver in April 1994. His red pick up truck ended up against a tree after the shooting with a high powered rifle. Johal, and his co-accused went to trial in the Dosanjh murders on February 27, 1995. This trial was one of the most costly, complicated, and longest trials in B.C. Johal was tried, but later acquitted in this 1st degree murder x 2 trial. This trial was also one of the most infamous after one of the co-accused was suspected of being intimately involved with a juror.
It was later revealed that Johal was killed on the orders of his trusted lieutenant, Bal Buttar, who observed that Johal was losing personal control and was killing off his own associates. According to Buttar, Johal founded a shadowy five-member hit squad called "The Elite" which would be paid up to $25,000 per hit that Buttar said was responsible for 25 to 30 murders. After Johal's death Buttar then assumed full control of the criminal organization before becoming a blind quadriplegic as a result of a botched attempt on his life in 2001..