A customer of "El Chapo" liquidated Montreal victim was an importer of cocaine linked to a dangerous Mexican cartel
The Montrealer coldly murdered in a restaurant in La Petite-Patrie on Tuesday night was a client of the dangerous Mexican cartel headed by "El Chapo", the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.
Originally from British Columbia, this importer of cocaine who resided in a luxury condo in downtown Montreal had "strong business ties with the Sinaloa cartel," according to our sources.
Led by the famous Mexican boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, this cartel is the most prolific drug supplier on the North American continent.
Coincidence or not, Kollaros was eliminated while Guzman's trial had just begun in Brooklyn for exporting more than $ 14 billion in narcotics to the United States and ordered 37 murders.
Privileged contacts
Thanks to his privileged contacts, Kollaros was able to "negotiate directly with the Sinaloa cartel" and have access to "huge" quantities of cocaine, according to our sources.
The police have already seen him several times in Montreal with people linked to this cartel, including the ex-spouse of a co-accused of "El Chapo", the Colombian Hildebrando "Alex" Cifuentes.
Detained in the United States, the latter is one of the leaders of the Cifuentes Villa clan which, according to the FBI, became the main cocaine supplier of the Sinaloa cartel in Colombia, after collaborating with the late boss Pablo Escobar. But the links between Kollaros and the Mexican cartel may have broken off since a series of expensive police raids and the seizure of 220 kg of coke destined for Canada aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean between 2013 and 2015. Two alleged accomplices of Kollaros, trapped by the RCMP and the Toronto police, were murdered during this period, in Ontario and British Columbia.
In April 2015, Kollaros was pinned with 12 suspects in Quebec and across the country, including former Olympic skateboarder Ryan James Wedding, for plotting to import several tons of cocaine into the country.
"Under the radar"
Last December, he left prison Rivière-des-Prairies after two and a half years of detention. He was still on probation for three years when a killer made him the 25th murder victim of the year in Montreal.
According to our sources, Mexican cartels are unobtrusive, but "very present" in Canada since 2010.
They would also benefit from the Trudeau government's cancellation of the mandatory visa for Mexicans wishing to enter Canada since 2009. The cartels are no longer bothered to send their emissaries to Montreal who "go under the radar" of the authorities more easily.
