AS part of an effort to further their investigations into the ongoing extortion series targeting the South Asian community, Calgary Police Service (CPS) announced on Thursday it is releasing photos of select accused to elicit more tips from the public.
Since this series began in April 2025, there have been 49 extortion-related incidents in Calgary. Nineteen shootings are tied to this series, targeting both extortion victims and suspects. To date, 16 individuals have been charged with 56 offences in relation to the Calgary series.
Earlier this year, Calgary Police’s Organized Crime and Offender Management Section launched two dedicated operations to address this concerning trend, Operation Orion and Operation Outage, which are ongoing and strategically focus on both investigative and suppression efforts targeting extortion-related violence. These proactive efforts prevent violence and maintain public safety.
Since then, police say they have seen significant success in making arrests, laying charges and reducing the frequency of extortion attempts in Calgary. However, this success is not the end to their operations and investigations, they add.
“Despite laying charges in a number of cases, we want to emphasize that these investigations remain active and ongoing, and additional assistance from the public is critical. We will not stop until everyone involved in these crimes has been identified and held accountable,” says Superintendent Jeff Bell of the CPS Criminal Operations and Intelligence Division.
“Our success thus far is a direct result of the cooperation and support from community members. We hope that by releasing these photos, community members can provide additional information to help advance our investigations.”
It is possible that the individuals charged may be known to the community by different names and the public may have encountered them under different circumstances.
“What we see is they’re hiding in plain sight is what it comes down to. We see they have a name that they’re known by in the community. They have nick names. They have legal documents from different counties and Canada that are also all different names. So they could conceivably have multiple names that they’re never known from,” Bell said at a press conference.
Anyone with information about the extortion incidents or information related to these individuals, including known associates, is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers anonymously.
Photos of these individuals can be viewed here:
www.calgarypolice.ca/public-safety/crime-prevention/scams-and-fraud/extortion-series-charges.html
Photos are of Ravjot Toor, Germanjeet Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Karanbir Singh, Amandeep Singh, Anurag Sidhu, Anurag Singh, Amandeep Mallhi, Sandeep Singh, Daksh Gautam, Akashdeep Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Pardeep Singh, Taranveer Singh, and Gurkaran Dhaliwal.
Photos are being released with careful review and assessment under Section 13(1)(a) or Section 13(1)(cc) of the Protection of Privacy Act, police say.
In addition, investigators are continuing to seek public assistance to locate Germanjeet Singh, who is wanted on warrants in relation to an extortion incident, and to identify suspects in two different extortion events that occurred in Cityscape and Saddle Ridge.
