"He was still operating even though he was on release for the same charges," a retired police investigator said.
In June 2023, Rasiah was his home while he awaited sentencing with an ankle monitor. He pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in February 2023 after heling to smuggle a Sri Lankan national into Canada a couple years prior.
In order to be released from police custody in 2021, Rasiah had to surrender his passport to the RCMP and was under court orders not to apply for a new passport. Police charged Rasiah on Apr. 1, 2021, after he was apprehended in a Cornwall, ON parking lot while picking up a Sri Lankan national. Rasiah received a 15-month jail sentence in September 2023.
The RCMP arrested the man again in May 2024 and charged with leading an international smuggling ring that has allowed hundreds of people to illegally move across the Canada-US border, sometimes heading south and other times coming north. Rasiah is still in police custody.
Investigators connected Rasiah's activities to the deaths of nine people on the St. Lawrence River in late March 2023. The group drowned with a guide when stormy waters threw them into the water while they were trying to illegally enter the US.
Rasiah’s new passport was issued on Apr. 11, 2023, immediately after the drownings on the St. Lawrence, CBC noted. Matthew Eamer, who was formerly a with the OPP and investigated Rasiah’s movements for three years, said the admitted human smuggler continued his illegal work even while awaiting his sentence for the 2021 conviction. "He was still operating even though he was on release for the same charges," Eamer told the CBC.
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