Bir Singh Sandher has five brothers: Gurjinder (AM Sandher Farms – (gurjinder@hotmail.com) , Sukhdev (davesandher@live.ca
S Sundher Orchards, Royal Fruit Packers), Rajinder (RK Sandher Orchards), Parminder, and Jaspal (jmsandher@hotmail.com J+M Sandher Orchards), and one sister, now deceased.
 Jaspal Sandher 2013 |
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 Sukhdev ‘Dave’ Singh Sandher |
Bir Singh Sandher has an arrest record in India. On October 16, 1981 Sandher was charged under section 144 of the Indian Penal Code – Joining unlawful assembly with a deadly weapon. Sandher’s arrest was related to violent clashes between police and Babbar Khalsa that took place September 20, 1981. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale offered himself to the police for arrest on 20 September 1981. Agitated Khalistani, including Bir Singh Sandher, rioted and clashed with police and paramilitary forces with weapons, resulting in the deaths of 18. Sandher was released by Punjab police on January 10, 1982.
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Bir Singh Sandher was and is a top level figure in Babbar Khalsa. |
In retaliation for Bhindranwale’s arrest, three armed men identified as members of Babbar Khalsa opened fire with machine guns in a market in Jalandhar on September 20, 1981, killing four people and injuring twelve.
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 (deceased). Their family had intimate ties to the Babbar Khalsa, also known as Babbar Khalsa International.
Babbar Khalsa was co-founded by Sukhdev Singh Babbar and Talwinder Singh Parmar. Talwinder Singh Parmar was the mastermind of the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing, which killed 329 people.
Bir Singh Sandher has deep ties with the banned Babbar Khalsa and both Hezbollah and Pakistani intelligence. 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).
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“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.” |
Inderjit Singh Reyat was convicted of perjury after he lied during the trial of two men accused in the airplane bombing that killed 329. Reyat was the only man to serve time in prison in connection to the 1985 Air India bombing.
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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. |
Bir Singh Sandher had serious 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.
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The Khalistan Tiger Force was formed by Jagtar Singh Tara of Babbar Khalsa around 1997. 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. 18 died in a bomb blast. |
Jagtar Singh Tara
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. Harjeet Singh Nijjar was head of the KTF until he was executed 18 June 2023 in Surrey by Lawrence Bishnoi gangsters.
His brothers own Canco Petroleum, a major Sinaloa Cartel money launderer.
Former KTF boss replacing Nijjar was Arshdeep Singh Gill ‘Arsh Dalla’, Bir Sandher’s cousin. The current leader of the KTF is Inderjeet Singh Gosal. He is close to Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatawan Singh Pannum.
The Gill family in Kelowna are also KTF orchardists and cousins to Bir Singh Sandher. The Sandher Crime Family work with gangsters from the Brothers Keepers gang.
Bir Singh 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.
Robert Tonsoo
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. Sami El-Helou is the Sinaloa Cartel’s largest money launderer.
Sami El-Helou (contact@elansuites.com)
El-Helou resided in Dubai until fleeing to Moscow a year ago. He is involved in the laundering of vast sums of money for the Sinaloa cartel, Khalistan Tiger Force, and others. El-Helou owns a home in the posh Moscow suburb of Millennium Village. He often traveled to Iran and Pakistan. He is the right hand of heroin kingpin Naji Sharifi Zindashti.
Sandher Family Trust is a straw company in Australia, used to move assets. The Sandhers own property through Sandher Family Trust in Miami, New York, San Diego, Yuma, (Yuma is a key cartel transshipment point) and the sold restaurant in Orange County. The Sandher Family Trust owns a $5m suite in the Palm Jumeriah area, Dubai. They own an $8.9m mansion in Upper Lonsdale, North Vancouver, and a $12.5m mansion off Marine Drive. Bir and Sukhwinder Sandher travel to the lower mainland several times a month for KTF events in Surrey.
Sandher helicopters N-214AU and N-214EB were registered by proxy through the bank of Utah in Las Vegas. True registrant was Tenru Aviation, which is a division of Sandher Family Trust. The Sandhers set up an aircraft ownership trust to hide their non-US resident ownership. This is not legal. Each beneficiary under an aircraft registration trust must either be a U.S. Citizen or a resident alien. The Sandhers are neither. Non-citizens with a share of control of a trust greater than 25% cannot register aircraft in the U.S. legally. The Sandhers sold their Bell 214-ST helicopters after the near bust in 2018.
The Sandher Family Trust property is in Lyrup, South Australia. Lyrup is a village of 350 souls, 267 km north-east of Adelaide. Nearest town is Berri, with a population of 5,000. The property is a vineyard, which is rented out to a local winery. The area is near the Murray River, in the Riverland wine growing region. The property was purchased by the Sandher Family Trust in 2001. A wire transfer into the ANZ bank in Berri from an associate of KTF founder Jagtar Singh Tara from Habib Bank in Lahore Pakistan in the amount of $3m AUD was flagged. The wire transfer into an account in Chase Bank put Australian authorities on alert. Oz authorities forced a sale of 200 acres of agricultural land in Donnybrook, purchased by Sandher Family Trust in 2004. In 2005, Bir Singh Sander and Sukhwinder Sandher were denied entry at Sydney airport due to their adverse security assessment by Australian Security Intelligence. They are subject to an entry ban. While Babbar Khalsa and the KTF are not listed as terrorist entities in Australia, some of their members are designated as such.
The Australian Taxation Office conducted a tax audit on Sandher Family Trust. The ATO has cracked down on family trusts owned by non-residents. It was found many were being used to launder money. Close Bir Sandher associate Sami El-Helou is on a terror watch list in Australia for financing terrorism. He has been on that watch list since 2018 due to his association with Iranian Naji Sharifi Zindashti. Zindashti tasked HA Damion Ryan for a regime sponsored hit. The Sandhers sold a $5.2m (USD) restaurant in Jan 2022. 4241 Macarthur Blvd in Newport Beach, California, is a 7,000 sq ft restaurant on a 0.69 acre lot. Sinaloa operative Carlos Raygozaparedes was entitled a janitor there. Raygozaparedes and Edgar Alfonso Lamas were busted in Southern California in 2021 with 821 pounds of meth, 190 pounds of cocaine and 20.5 pounds of fentanyl.
In October 2024 Arsh Dalla aide Baljeet Singh was in the UAE and travelled on a private jet to meet El-Helou in Moscow, spent 5 days there, and returned to the UAE for meetings in Brightway offices, before going back to India where he was busted on arrival.
The Sikh population in India is estimated to be 22 million, (1.7% of the population) the majority of whom reside in Punjab. The 2021 census reports about 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.
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