Two members were involved in a very daring 2016 hit in Dubai. They were later both killed in Canada.

Turkish drug trafficker Cetin Koç was sitting in a car in one of Dubai’s most luxurious neighbourhoods, beside shiny towers that are among the tallest highrises in the world, when two hit men ran up and blasted away.

It was May 4, 2016. The Iranian-born Turkish national was hit seven times in the head and twice more in his chest and hand by Russian and Austrian-made guns equipped with silencers. Koç died instantly, his car engine still running.

The hit men — alleged to be Metro Vancouver residents Harpreet Singh Majhu and Orosman Jr. Garcia-Arevalo — raced to the airport in a rented vehicle, apparently getting into a fender bender en route. They were on a plane back to Canada before Dubai police had even identified them as suspects.

The Canadian assassins are alleged to have been hired on behalf of Naji Sharifi Zindashti, a very powerful Iranian-born drug lord based in Turkey.

Before he went to Dubai, Majhu had joined other young gangsters and traffickers to form the Brothers Keepers — a group aligned with the Red Scorpions that has split apart and turned on itself.