The RCMP has promised an update Monday on the investigation into a high-profile fugitive — an accused B.C. gangster who escaped from prison and has been on the run for more than three years.

Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil broke out of the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam in July 2022 with the help of two men posing as contractors. Investigators have been on his trail ever since.

For the past two years, Alkhalil has been on Canada’s Bolo 25 Most Wanted list with the reward for information leading to an arrest as high as $250,000.

As of Monday morning, $50,000 was being offered to potential tipsters.

“Rabih Alkhalil is an extremely dangerous individual,” said Bolo program director Max Langlois, when announcing the $25,000 reward in October 2022.

“He has a lengthy criminal record,

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