The Sikh population in India is around 22 million, (1.7% of the population) the majority of whom reside in Punjab. The 2021 census reports 940,000 in Canada say they are Sikh. That is about 2.6% of Canada's population. Canada contains the second largest Sikh population in the world following only India. The largest communities are in Ontario (397,865), British Columbia (315,000), and Alberta (126,385) The demand for an independent state for Sikhs — Khalistan — can be traced to the 1940s when the British partitioned India and created Pakistan.
In June 1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to storm the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 2 years previously Bir Sandher, then 18, and younger brother Sukhdev moved to the Okanagan Valley, sponsored by their sister. Their family had intimate ties to the Babbar Khalsa, also known as Babbar Khalsa International. It is a Sikh militant organization responsible for the June 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329, the worse mass murder in Canadian history.
Bir Singh Sandher had financial troubles by 1997 after pledging the Hartman orchard to buy another. Low apple prices meant orchardists weren't making money. Those troubles were gone for the Sandhers by the early 2000s.
The Khalistan Tiger Force was formed by Jagtar Singh Tara of Babbar Khalsa International. The KTF is a terrorist group, backed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. A wire transfer to Bir Sandher into the branch of ANZ bank in 2001 came from a close associate of Jagtar Singh Tara. A Pakistani bank sent $3m AUD, followed by a wire transfer to an account in Chase Bank for a property purchase. Tara is serving a life sentence in India for his role in the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995. Bir Singh Sandher may be considered the CFO of the KTF. He is a senior member of the terrorist organization, sits at the executive table, and is one of it's key and largest money launderers. In 2005 Bir Singh Sandher and Sukhwinder Sandher were denied entry at Sydney airport due to their ties to terrorism.
Billions in Sinaloa Cartel assets in the Okanagan are held through KTF proxies.
Current KTF boss in Surrey is Arshdeep Singh Gill 'Arsh Dalla', Bir Sandher's cousin. The Gill family are also KTF orchardists. Bir Sandher and his family work with gangsters from the Brothers Keepers and the Sinaloa Cartel.
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) is Canada's financial intelligence unit and anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing supervisor. Its mandate is to detect, prevent, and deter money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Bir Sandher purchased 3750 Anderson Rd. in Kelowna in 2013, for $1.3m in a private sale. In 2014 Bir Sandher bought 1,500 acres on several titles for $32m at 2222 Swainson Road in another private sale. Sandher's bank is Bank of Montreal. FINTRAC flagged the first after a wire transfer from an account at Gazprombank Private Banking, at 3-Goluvinskiy Street, Moscow. This held up the closing of the sale.
Bir Sandher enlisted K9 lawyer Robert Tonsoo of Benson & Company and funds were released. The wire transfer for 2222 Swainson Road came from the Sberbank VIP Center, now called Sberbank Private Banking at 3 soymonovskiy Lane, Moscow.
Bir Singh Sandher was pulled in and questioned by cops from the RCMP Economic and Financial Crimes unit. Sandher again ran to loyal fixer Robert Tonsoo and played his race card, claiming he was being persecuted by white trash RCMP. Mr. Robert Tonsoo is senior partner at Benson Law LLP in Kelowna. (rtonsoo@bensonlawllp.com)
Why is a Punjabi intimately connected to Khalistan terrorists using Russian banks to pay for his property purchases in Canada? The answer lies with Sami El-Helou, Bir Sandher's financial intermediary.
Naji Sharifi Zindashti
Sami El-Helou (contact@elansuites.com)
El-Helou resides in Dubai and is involved in the laundering of vast sums of money for the Sinaloa cartel, Khalistan Tiger Force, and others. El-Helou divides his time between Dubai and Moscow where he owns a home in the posh Moscow suburb of Millennium Village. He often travels to Iran and Pakistan. He is the right hand of heroin kingpin Naji Sharifi Zindashti.
"The phone records of Bir Singh Sandher revealed that he was frequently in contact with Inderjit Singh Reyat (A Sikh activist convicted in the Air India bombing). Harjjit Singh Nijjar (A Sikh activist living in Surrey, British Columbia), Gurpatawan Singh Pannum (A Sikh activist with Canada/US citizenship), Walia Forex, a Forex business in Surrey, British Columbia and SBI Bank, Surrey, British Columbia."
Reyat was convicted of perjury after he lied during the trial of two men accused in the airplane bombing that killed 329.
Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only man to serve time in prison in connection to the 1985 Air India bombing. He was freed in 2016 after serving 2/3 of 9 years. Reyat pleaded guilty to manslaughter for helping build the bomb. His two co-killers were acquitted.
Ripudaman Singh Malik was acquitted, he was killed in a hit in Surrey in 2022. Ajaib Singh Bagri, who called for the deaths of 50,000 Hindu, escaped all justice.
Chandrasekhar Sankurathri with children Sarada and Srikiran. His wife and the children died on the Air India Flight.
Harjjit Singh Nijjar (Hardeep) was head of the KTF until he was executed 18 June 2023 in Surrey. Bir Sandher's cousin Arsh Dalla is now KTF boss. Gurpatawan Singh Pannum is a famous Khalistani activist.
The State Bank of India Branch in Surrey is Unit #13, 13767 72nd Ave. (sbicsurrey@sbicanada.com)
Bir Sandher
The Sandher plant was inspected again in July. It remains out of compliance and the Sandhers will likely be fined again. Sandhers continued to discharge illegally until May 15th, 2024 according to plant manager Chris Stewart. Since the Sandhers are at the end of their 'matrix' (Level 2, Category C) their fines will increase. Sandhers pay a fortune in escalating fines for their determined failure to dig a $25k lined sewage field. HERE.
All eyes are on the night-time discharges of the Sandher Fruit Packers plant at 3231 Old Vernon Road. There has been no work done on a lined sewage field so illegal plant discharge will be going into the ditch out front again. Sandhers brought the first Unitec Optical cherry sorting line to North America in 2009. First complaints of their dumping surfaced in 2010 with Sukhdev Sandher's Royal Fruit. The Sandhers have never had wastewater discharge authorization.
30. The Ministry finds that Sandher is not currently authorized under EMA to discharge any waste to the environment.
These would be the documents outlining the reasons for the Sandher's 3rd fine of $78,368. There are many. Here. The last fine was $78,368 for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That brings the Sandher total to almost $111k since 2018. Sandher was given six months to apply for a permit in September 2023, but that has been rejected twice by the MoE for incomplete information. They had until May 10 to remedy deficiencies in the application. MoE fines are a cost of doing business for the Sandhers.
April 17, 2024
"We have read the determination from the province. We accept their determination and intend to fully comply." Here. Info shows up at the MoE. Here.
"While we accept the administrative penalty, we wish to once again reiterate, the limited water that was discharged in the past was used only to wash apples and cherries, has been tested, and poses no risk to public health or the environment." Gurtaj Sandher neglects to mention that fruit packing is a prescribed business under the EMA and a waste disposal authorization was required in 2017 as plant discharge is going to ground. 7 years and 2 abandoned applications later the Sandhers are still dumping illegally into a Kelowna ditch.
Gurtaj Sandher's first fine for illegal dumping was $575 in 2018. This fine resulted from a January 2024 MoE report, and wastewater dumping continued after that inspection because a citizen video recorded it in February. That video busted these reprobates dead cold. Sandher discharge of 99,000+ liters per day is a concoction of detergent, bleach, and 'ShieldBrite' coating. Gurtaj Sandher likely isn't losing any sleep over this fine from the MoE either. He is most concerned about what color the new paintjob on his Lambo is gonna be.
"Gurtaj Sandher Hahahaha nah mine yellow for now brah debating between Gold or Blue Tony Nguyen."
Gurtaj Sandher, President of Sandher Fruit Packers decided to splain things. HERE. "We understand that the complaints raised by some of our neighbours with local media come from a place of genuine concern, but these concerns are unfounded and are based on understandable misunderstandings or false information."
The B.C. cherry market is 19,000 tonnes from 5,100 acres with Global Fruit in Creston claiming half that. That is probably around $80m+ worth of cherries. Bir Sandher may provide half of Andre Bailey's supply. That is $20m last year selling cherries. We may assume he has around 1,300 acres in cherries from which he got around 5,000 tonnes. Bir Sandher controls over 1,000 acres of apples. The total there is 6,700 producing so Bir Sandher must have about 15% of that $130m market too. Bir Sandher probably does $35m in business each and every year. He has never had a wastewater disposal authorization in B.C.
The MoE report of February 2, 2024 contains photos of Sandher's sewage field. This is the same unlined sewage field used since 2017 to offload at least 99,000 liters of wastewater per day. MoE points to the pooling of sewage.
The sewage system is overloaded and leaching. Photos were taken weeks before the Sandher's next night time discharge was caught on video by a citizen around Feb 6, 2024. The Sandhers discharge their wastewater into a ditch along Old Vernon Road at night. HERE.
In March 2017 the MoE issued its 1st warning letter to Sandher at 3231 Old Vernon Road. The Sandhers applied for a discharge permit in March 2018. It was abandoned.
Prabtaj Sandher explained the economics to MPs. Tako VanPopta, Langley—Aldergrove and Tracy Gray, Kelowna—Lake Country got free apples.
Video of the Sandher's latest offense was posted February 6, 2024. Residents of the rural community of Ellison are complaining again about the overpowering stench of sewage. In 2022, the Ministry of the Environment levied a $32k fine against Sandher for violating waste discharge regulations and ignoring warnings. The $32k fine was paid Aug. 23, 2022. That didn't stop the discharge of waste.
An inspector was falsely told 57,120 liters per day of waste water is produced. The actual number exceeds 99,000 liters. 4 chemicals are used, including phosphoric acid. Sodium hypchlorite is liquid bleach, Acidx Dual is a cleaner used to remove natural wax so that a coating of Shield-Brite® can be applied. Shield-Brite® AP-450 is a shellac-based coating. Construction began without the company submitting engineered drawings and site plans.
Sandher Fruit Packers Ltd. was ordered to stop building it's huge plant in 2019 because it failed to obtain any permits. It took two stop work orders before compliance.
Sandher Fruit Packers faced 3 fines, a maximum $150 each, for failure to obtain building permits.
Prabtaj Sandher said the plant had to get built before cherry season.
Bir Sandher was 18 when he moved from Punjab in 1982.
In February 2018 the Sandhers received a $575 fine for an unauthorized discharge. Last inspection on February 2, 2024 recommended more fines.
The Sandhers applied for a discharge permit again in March 2023. That application was abandoned. Despite never having waste discharge authorization after 7 years operations the Sandhers are expanding. Sandher cherry operations are expanding into wine growing areas. The cherry orchard expansion, 343 acres, is on land owned by G.P. Sandher Holdings Ltd. It has applied to the Black Mountain Irrigation District to get water to 1,000 acres of its land. Once the cherry trees are planted, it takes four years to start getting a crop and six years for a full crop. The Sandhers, through Global Fruit in Creston, started selling into South Korea.
Latest for the Sandhers is an application (their 3rd) to offload wastewater directly into a ditch. No, we aren't making this up. Leading chemical is Shield-Brite® which is an antifungal agent and coating used instead of chlorine to stop surface rot.
"Do not discharge into sewers, lakes, streams, or other bodies of water."
Previously this waste was flushed into the sewage system. That inadequate system is breaking down completely again, something neighbors know too well.
Mill Creek
“During the fruit washing process, wastewater is discharged from the facility into (a) disposal field via a septic tank system.” The Sandhers have never had authorization to discharge their growing volumes of wastewater. Wastewater in Sandher ditches ultimately leads to Simpsons Pond and Mill Creek and will damage fish-bearing ecosystems.
In spring 2016 applicants Sukhwinderjit and Bir Sandher won a development permit that allowed trailers for 60 temporary agricultural workers at their residence/orchard at 1610 Swainson Rd. Those workers joined 80 others on various Sandher ALR properties. GP Sandher Holdings had tried to import an additional 250 Mexicans. That was frowned upon. Kelowna counsellor Luke Stack praised Bir Sandher for being a "serious farmer who seems willing to play by the rules." We have a massive large security fence around this $5m+ compound, probably to protect the asshole occupants from public citizen mobs.
MoE points to the pooling of sewage.
Sandher Fruit Packers faced 3 fines, a maximum $150 each, for failure to obtain building permits.
Prabtaj Sandher said the plant had to get built before cherry season.
Bir Sandher was 18 when he moved from Punjab in 1982.
Once the cherry trees are planted, it takes four years to start getting a crop and six years for a full crop. The Sandhers, through Global Fruit in Creston, started selling into South Korea.
Leading chemical is Shield-Brite® which is an antifungal agent and coating used instead of chlorine to stop surface rot.
Mill Creek
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