EXCLUSIVE: Calgary Singh BUSTED With 170 lb of Cocaine at US-Canada Border Freed on $0 Bail Next Day
- Mocha Bezirgan
- 4 hours ago
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Surj Singh Salaria, a Calgary-based commercial truck driver, is facing three serious criminal charges for attempting to traffic 170 pounds of cocaine into Canada from the United States through the Montana–Alberta Coutts border crossing on September 25, 2025.
While Canada’s multi-billion-dollar state media complex reported on Singh’s charges, it failed to dig deeper to determine whether he had been granted bail.
According to court documents obtained by independent researcher Bob Rai, Singh was granted bail the very next day after his arrest by a provincial Justice of the Peace — for $0 bail and under extremely lax conditions, including permission to travel freely within the province and no curfew requirements.The swiftness of his release, despite being caught with $7 million worth of narcotics, raises serious questions about Canada’s ability to deter international drug trafficking.
“The level of corruption and criminality in Canada, driven by a political-criminal nexus, is unmatched in the world,” stressed Rai, adding that the justice system’s inadequacy in handling ethno-religious organized crime is, in his view, one of the reasons for U.S. concern over Canada.
We’ve seen Singh after Singh busted with huge amounts of narcotics and fentanyl — but how do they launder the cash? Mr. Rai explains that Punjabi gangs in Canada often use a money-transfer method that’s legal here but illegal in the U.S.: hawala.
“I can speak for the Sikh-Punjabi ethnic gangs that have many members of parliament like Jasraj Singh Hallan, Tim Singh Uppal, and other Singhs in Ottawa, as well as all the provincial Singhs aligned under the dirty World Sikh Organization,” Rai stated, pointing out Hallan's gangster past and Uppal's alleged proximity to international drug traffickers, according to Canadian and Indian court documents.
He also raises concerns about Alberta's premier Danielle Smith allowing Satpal Singh Parhar to appoint himself as the chief of Alberta's new police force despite his proximity to organized crime, as per various court filings. “Sat Singh Parhar will now be in charge of a 300 km international border, and I couldn't imagine what he will be doing with all of that intelligence received from federal and international agencies, and he will be profiliating and assisting high-level drug traffickers crossing the international border,” Rai expressed.