An importer of coke, held responsible by the mafia for the closing of one of its drug entry doors at the Montreal airport, was shot dead in the street in Laval, in what looks like a settlement of accounts.
Just before midnight on Wednesday, 42-year-old Ray Kanho was hit by at least one bullet in the head when he was a few meters away from his vehicle, at the corner of Potier and Edinburgh streets in the city. Vimont district.
In all likelihood, he tried to flee his assailant before being hit and collapsing. His death was confirmed at the hospital a few hours later.
Kanho had trouble with the Rizzuto clan, especially with Giuseppe De Vito 14 years ago, because of a cocaine import that had gone wrong.
Historical entry
On January 22, 2005, the Canada Border Services Agency discovered 218 kg of drugs, valued at $ 27 million, hidden in two baggage containers on a flight from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
He reportedly threatened to liquidate him if he did not quickly pay up to $ 1 million in "taxes" to the criminal organization.
It's because, in the eyes of the boss, the importer and his acolytes, Giuseppe Torre and Frank Faustini, had "burned his front door" at the Montreal airport by trying to bring in more coke than what had been allowed.
Personal profit
Not to mention that the extra 98 kg were for their own profit, an affront to De Vito, died poisoned in prison in 2013. The leaders of the mafia had also discovered the pot with the roses on one of the Journal.
The trio had made at least three more illegal imports under the nose of the Sicilian clan, but which were known to De Vito, before being pinched.
The Laval resident would have "settled" his penalty for a few hundred thousand dollars, in order to continue working with them and calm tensions.
Another failure
Almost a year to the day, after this fiasco, another cocaine delivery plot with Kanho at his head was foiled by the agents, revealing court documents.
The 38 kg of drugs had been concealed in metal containers carrying the meal trays of an airplane bound for Montreal from Venezuela, this time. Arrested in November 2006, he was sentenced to 14 years of penitentiary after his trial in 2009. He was free as the air since December 2017.
According to our sources, Ray Kanho was still active in the underworld.
This attack comes just days after the murder of another narcotics trafficker linked to organized crime. Eliott Blanchard, 35, was shot in similar circumstances early Monday morning in a public parking lot on Havre-des-Iles Street, still in Laval.
He had been arrested in 2013 in another record seizure of narcotics; this time it was the equivalent of two million methamphetamine tablets.
