Police in the Philippines believe Vancouver gangster James Riach was working directly with a Mexican cartel when he set up a major drug operation in Manila last year.
Rommell Vallejo, chief of the Anti-Organized and Transnational Crime Division of the National Bureau of Investigation, said Riach and three other Canadians have been charged with importing and manufacturing $2.25 million worth of cocaine, ecstasy and methamphetamine.
“They were in direct communication with people from Mexico,” Vallejo ...
