A Canadian drug kingpin, who once headed the notorious Sam Gor syndicate, has been sentenced to 16 years in an Australian prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic commercial quantities of methamphetamine from 2012 to 2013.

Tse Chi Lop, now 62, pleaded guilty Nov. 7 in Melbourne County Court and was handed the lengthy sentence Thursday. He will be eligible for parole after serving 10 years.

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Lop was charged after an Australian Federal Police investigation dubbed Operation Volante that began in 2012 to investigate his international syndicate and its drug trafficking network in Australia.

At its peak, the Sam Gor syndicate was the biggest trafficker of methamphetamine into Australia and Tse drew comparisons to notorious cartel leaders like Joaquin (El Chapo)

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