Big Circle Gang
Tai Huen Chai (大圈仔), Big Circle Boys; For centuries, emperors and warring factions aligned themselves with the various triad groups. The British tried to expel, imprison or kill many triad members during their reign of Hong Kong. In the early 1970s, a new player, the Big Circle Boys. They were given the moniker (大圈仔). The Big Circle Boys originated in China’s paramilitary Red Guards, and after clashing with China’s army in the late 1960s, members were sent to prison in southern China. But some gang members escaped and infiltrated Hong Kong, where they “turned their military prowess to crime,” according to Canadian court records. The gang now thrives among the unregulated factories and underground banks of Guangdong, and especially in the city Guangzhou, also known as Canton, and nicknamed the “Big Circle.”
Founded | 1950s |
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Founding location | United States, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada |
Years active | 1950s-present |
Territory | Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Malaysia, United States, Canada, Australia |
Ethnicity | Chinese |
Membership | 5000-10000 |
Criminal activities | Racketeering, Murder, drug trafficking, intimidation, extortion, money laundering, contract killing |
Rivals | Bloods, Crips, Piru Street Boys, East Side Longos, 14K Triad |
They spread rapidly across Canadian cities in the 1990s, and confidential informants say Big Circle Boys are trusted bonding agents among many actors in fluid networks of Asian drug-trafficking.
They controlled much of the Heroin trade in central China and now control a vast percentage of the Heroin and Fentanyl distribution business in the United States and Canada.
The Big Circle Boys are a Transnational Organized Crime syndicate.
References
External links
- Chinese Organized Crime and Illegal Alien Trafficking: Humans as a Commodity (US Department of State)
- High-ranking Big Circle Boy killed in Vancouver (Global TV)
- Raid revealed extortion gang's strength (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Askmen
- 2 Men Charged in Chinatown Gang Death New York Times (December 30, 1995)