Witness says Dhak contracted gang to kill his enemies
Crown witness identified only as ‘B’ testifies at murder trial of alleged UN hitman Cory Vallee
A former member of the United Nations gang says the late gangster Gurmit Dhak contracted the UN to kill some of Dhak’s enemies.
The man, who can only be identified as “B” due to a publication ban, testified at a murder trial this week that he attended a meeting several years ago with Dhak and then-UN leader Conor D’Monte to discuss the murder contracts.
B is a Crown witness at the B.C. Supreme Court trial of alleged UN hitman Cory Vallee, charged with the murder of Red Scorpion Kevin LeClair in February 2009 and conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers over several months in 2008 and 2009.
He testified earlier that Vallee was one of two shooters who fired at LeClair outside a Langley strip mall on Feb. 6, 2009, and that B was nearby at the time of the murder.
Under cross-examination this week, B agreed with defence lawyer Rebecca McConchie that he was a willing participant in the Dhak plot to kill a man he identified as Teddy Kim.
B said his job was to lure Kim to a location by posing as a UN associate who was a friend of Kim’s.
“And when Conor asked you to … lure Teddy Kim to a place where he could be shot and killed, you were ... happy to help?” McConchie asked. B agreed that he was. McConchie asked again: “To be clear, you knew full well that the purpose of setting up this meeting was so Teddy Kim could be murdered?” Replied B: “That’s right.” The former UN member said the shooting “was a pretty spur-of-the-moment thing as far as I can recall. It is possible it was planned a day ahead and I knew. I don’t have any memory of it.”
B told Justice Janice Dillon that he sent a message to Kim on a BlackBerry that had been cloned from one belonging to the UN associate.
Once at the location, Kim was shot, but survived.
McConchie noted that B’s “role in this hit was successful. You set it up and Teddy went there.” B agreed. But the hit was less successful, McConchie said, “because Teddy Kim was shot but not killed.” “Yes,” B replied. The former gangster testified last May that he, D’Monte and Dhak met at an Asian restaurant off Boundary near Canada Way.
B told the court that Dhak was affiliated with the UN through a gangster named Billy Tran.
B said this week that Dhak wanted three people killed — Kim, Independent Soldier boss Randy Naicker, and a third man, whose name B couldn’t recall.
He said that his close friend and fellow UN gangster Jesse Adkins described to him details of the failed plot to kill Naicker right after it happened in September 2009.
Adkins and two other men went to the Vancouver halfway house where Naicker was living and mistakenly killed another resident named Rajinder Soomel instead of Naicker.
B said he advised Adkins to flee the country or face possible arrest in the Soomel murder.
Both Adkins and Vallee left for Mexico shortly afterwards, he testified.
B agreed with McConchie that he later grew concerned about Adkins possibly going to police and turning on the gang because he was tired of his life on the run. So B contacted senior UN member Khamla Wong, who arranged to have Adkins killed in Mexico.
Dhak was murdered outside Metrotown Mall in October 2010. Naicker, meanwhile, was shot to death in Port Moody in 2012.
B is expected to finish his testimony Thursday before the trial adjourns until November.