A Palestinian Canadian family of gangsters based in Surrey, British Columbia. The family immigrated to Canada as refugees from Saudi Arabia in 1990. They have been involved in a long-standing feud with the Duhre brothers, resulting in multiple murders. Several family members have been killed or convicted of crimes.
CRIMENET has extracted 10 linkages for this organization, including 3 cooperative ties across 2 organizations, 5 conflicts across 5 organizations, 2 other connections and footprints in 3 countries.
In 2013, Nabil Alkhalil went to Mexico on a forged Canadian passport. He worked at an used car dealership in Ciudad López Mateos while continuing to be active in organised crime. Nabil Alkhalil is believed to have served as the Alkhalil family's liaison with the Sinaloa Cartel.
He was sent to Panama City and again vanished.
Edwards and Nájera wrote that Alkhalil and Amero were in charge of a smuggling operation to bring in cocaine from via secret compartments in trucks from the United States.