CULTURAL ENRICHMENT: Police heap pressure on Canadian crime family by seizing $1.4M in properties.

The 2014 arrest of Alkhalil and eight others in Project Anarchy was announced with great zeal; it is the largest criminal probe the Ottawa police have undertaken. Called “a pre-emptive strike” to avert a gang war, police seized 24.5 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $12.5 million and four guns.

Six of the nine arrested have since pleaded guilty and received sentences ranging from six to 10 years in prison. . . .

This asset probe — called Project Attar — picked up where the criminal probe left off, calling in forensic accountants to analyze business records and trace how money was made and where it went.

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The Alkhalil family moved to Ontario and Quebec from British Columbia after years of violence and bloodshed.

Their family arrived in Canada from Saudi Arabia as refugees in 1990 — although their roots are believed to be in Iran — and settled in Surrey, B.C.