Thesingarasan Rasiah was issued this passport in April 2023 days after two families and a boatman drowned in the St. Lawrence River in a failed human smuggling run allegedly linked to Rasiah's organization.
The federal government issued a new passport to an admitted human smuggler after he was ordered to surrender the travel document as part of court-imposed release conditions, CBC News has learned.Thesingarasan Rasiah was issued this passport in April 2023 shortly after two families and a boatman drowned in the St. Lawrence River in a failed human smuggling run allegedly linked to Rasiah's organization.
Investigators with the Cornwall Regional Task Force — which includes officers from the RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police and Canada Border Services Agency — also linked Rasiah's organization to the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in late March 2023. Two families — one from India, the other from Romania — drowned with a boatman in rough river waters trying to get into the U.S.
"He was still operating even though he was on release for the same charges," said Eamer, who retired in May and investigated Rasiah's activities over three years.Trial begins Monday for 2 men accused of human smuggling after family's deaths at Manitoba-U.S. border "How bad is our national security infrastructure when we can't catch the most basic things in our system?"
In 2017, CBSA investigators in Quebec charged Rasiah in connection with a human smuggling event at the port of entry in Dundee, Que., about 125 km southwest of Montreal. He pleaded guilty to "counselling misrepresentation" under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and received an 18 month conditional sentence.
Eamer was in the lead marked police cruiser that boxed in two vehicles at the motel. One was driven by Rasiah, the other by a woman who pulled into the parking lot to hand over a Sri Lankan national she had just smuggled across the border.
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