The Hells impose a 10% tax
Two bikers have been victims of attempted murder for having stopped paying the "HST"

Having regained control of the drug market in Quebec, the Hells Angels are ruthless to those who want to do business without paying the weekly 10% "sales tax" imposed by the bikers.
Revived by the Sharqc fishtail end in court and the release from prison of most of its members, the powerful criminal gang does not hear laughter with the application of what might be called his "HST" - for "Hells Sales Tax".
As proof, the police believe that the two main leaders of the deceased Ontario chapter Nomads des Hells, Martin Bernatchez and Philippe "Crazy" Boudreault, were shot at because they no longer paid royalties to their "brothers" in Quebec, learned The Journal.

Boudreault, a former Olympic boxer who was vice-president of the Ontario Nomads, is still confined to a wheelchair since a gun projectile burst lodged near his spine on April 16 last, in Lachute.
Bernatchez, the president of the same chapter, survived three bullets that hit him at the L'EstriVal campsite - formerly known as Tropicana - in the middle of the night of August 12 in Granby.

No competition
Founded 15 years ago by several former Rock Machine Quebecers after the biker war, the Ontario Nomads chapter was finally dissolved in September.
However, it was the same section that, on the ground, lent a helping hand to the Quebec Hells to keep the drug trade afloat while the majority of these were incarcerated after Operation SharQc in 2009.
"Currently, there is no criminal organization that has the capacity to confront the Hells in Quebec. They have taken their place, "said a police source.
The police do not rule out that "defaults" of this tax are the cause of some murders related to organized crime this year.
No tax, no sale
When traffickers' networks are not run by the Hells, they systematically receive 10% of the revenues of other groups operating on what they consider to be "their" territory.
"You're allowed to sell only if you pay the tax," investigator Roger Ferland of the Regional Joint Organized Crime Squad (ERM) told the trial of a trafficker at the courthouse of Quebec, in 2014.



According to our information, the narcotics market can currently generate monthly profits of $ 100,000 for the most successful Hells Angels.
"Today, the Hells manage the entire criminal market in the province. They make a lot of money. Even the Italian mafia, destabilized by police operations and internal conflicts, pays them their cut (royalty), "added another source familiar with the underworld.
Millions of cash
Although the Hells are trying to infiltrate the legal economy and diversify their activities, drug trafficking remains their main source of income, said Sgt. Alain Belleau of the Sûreté du Québec before the Charbonneau Commission.
The current quantity of white powder currently on the Quebec narcotics market is unknown.
But as an indication, the SQ estimated that at the time of the police operation Printemps 2001, it sold not less than 11.5 kg of cocaine and 3 kg of hashish per day, in the province, and that Mauritius " Mom "Boucher and the other Nomads pocketed $ 6 million each month.