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洛杉矶联邦检察官于周二宣布，对印度知名有组织犯罪集团“比什诺伊”的头目及其八名同伙提起刑事指控，指控他们与2023年加拿大一名锡克教分离主义领导人遇刺案有关。
起诉书中指控劳伦斯·比什诺伊及另一名被告下令杀害“H.S.N.”——显然是哈迪普·辛格·尼贾尔的姓名首字母。尼贾尔于2023年6月18日在不列颠哥伦比亚省萨里的一座锡克教寺庙附近被枪杀。
尼贾尔是知名政治异见人士，曾倡导在印度北部建立一个名为“卡利斯坦”的锡克教家园。印度此前以其相关倡导活动为由将他列为“恐怖分子”。
起诉书称，当天另有两名未具名的共犯扣动扳机，但比什诺伊为该袭击承担了责任。
“2023年11月25日，被告比什诺伊在脸书的一则旁遮普语帖文中以‘劳伦斯·比什诺伊集团’的名义声称对2023年11月24日发生在加拿大温哥华R.G.（印度知名演员兼歌手）住所的枪击事件负责，帖文警告称‘没人能从我们手中救你’，”起诉书中写道。
比什诺伊于2015年被印度当局逮捕。尽管如此，起诉书称他仍继续运营一个全球犯罪集团。
“被告比什诺伊利用走私进其牢房的违禁手机和其他互联网协议语音设备，亲自指挥比什诺伊有组织犯罪集团成员及同伙在全球范围内实施政治暗杀、谋杀、枪击、敲诈勒索、绑架、贩毒、人口走私及其他犯罪行为，”起诉书中写道。
他目前仍被关押在印度。
比什诺伊的童年好友萨廷德吉特·辛格·布拉尔据称负责该集团在北美的行动，也被起诉书中指控下令实施刺杀。
2023年尼贾尔遇刺后不久，另一名知名锡克教分离主义人士、尼贾尔的密友古帕特万特·辛格·潘努在纽约市遭遇刺杀图谋，但该阴谋被联邦调查局挫败。
加拿大和美国执法当局后来均指控，尼贾尔遇刺案及潘努遇刺图谋均受印度政府授意。
今年2月，一名名为尼基尔·古普塔的印度国民在曼哈顿联邦法院认罪，承认与前印度政府官员维卡什·亚达夫合谋杀害潘努。亚达夫目前仍在逃。
在周二公开的起诉书中，比什诺伊、辛格·布拉尔及另外七名与比什诺伊集团有关联的被告因涉嫌参与犯罪企业面临多项指控，包括敲诈勒索、敲诈勒索及共谋分发受控物质。
联邦检察官同时宣布了另外两起与印度有组织犯罪集团相关的起诉书中的刑事指控，涉及贾古·巴格万普里亚有组织犯罪集团和丹达贩毒组织。
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announce charges against Indian organized criminal group “Bishnoi”
2026-07-07 14:07:21 EDT / CBS News
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Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles on Tuesday announced criminal charges against the prominent leader and eight associates of the Indian organized criminal group known as “Bishnoi,” tying them to the 2023 assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.
The indictment accuses Lawrence Bishnoi and another defendant of ordering the killing of “H.S.N.” — the apparent initials for Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down on June 18, 2023, near a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia.
Nijjar was a well-known political dissident who advocated for the creation of a Sikh homeland in northern India that would be known as “Khalistan.” India previously designated him a “terrorist” in connection with those advocacy efforts.
The indictment alleges that two other unnamed co-conspirators pulled the trigger that day, but that Bishnoi took responsibility for the act.
“On November 25, 2023, defendant Bishnoi claimed responsibility on behalf of the ‘Lawrence Bishnoi Group’ for a shooting that occurred on November 24, 2023 in Vancouver, Canada at the residence of R.G., a prominent Indian actor and singer, in an online post to Facebook that warned, in Punjabi, ‘no one can save you from us,’” the indictment says.
Bishnoi was arrested by Indian authorities in 2015. Despite this, the indictment says he continued to run a global crime syndicate.
“Using contraband cellphones and other voice over internet protocol devices smuggled into his jail cell, defendant Bishnoi personally directed political assassinations, murders, shootings, extortions, kidnappings, drug trafficking, human smuggling, and other crimes committed by members and associates of the Bishnoi OCG worldwide,” the indictment says.
He remains in custody in India.
Bishnoi’s childhood friend, Satinderjit Singh Brar, allegedly directed the group’s North American operations and is also accused in the indictment of ordering the assassination.
Shortly after Nijjar was murdered in 2023, another prominent Sikh separatist and close friend of Nijjar named Gurpatwant Singh Pannun was targeted for assassination in New York City, but the plot was thwarted by the FBI.
Both Canadian and American law enforcement authorities later alleged that the assassination of Nijjar and attempted assassination of Pannun were ordered at the behest of the Indian government itself.
In February, an Indian national named Nikhil Gupta pleaded guilty in a federal court in Manhattan to conspiring with former Indian government official Vikash Yadav to kill Pannun. Yadav remains at large.
In the indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Bishnoi, Singh Brar and seven other defendants associated with Bishnoi’s group are facing a variety of charges in connection with their alleged criminal enterprise — including racketeering, extortion and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
Federal prosecutors also announced criminal charges in two other indictments related to organized crime by Indian groups, including the Jaggu Bhagwanpuria Organized Crime Group and the Dhanda Drug Trafficking Organization.
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