 Sami El-Helou | Lyudmila Shcherbakova is proxy owner of Brightway on behalf of El-Helou. She is President of Velpharm Group and listed as one of Russia's richest women. Here. Velpharm supplies drug making equipment through its partners in India, China, and Thailand. (info@brightway.ru)
 The Enderby precursor seizure came from the partner chemical companies of Velpharm in India and China. Lyudmila Shcherbakova fronts Velpharm, while Sami El-Helou pulls the strings behind the curtain. Gurtaj Singh Sandher met Lyudmila Shcherbakova while he was in Moscow. |
Sami El-Helou hasn't left his guilded Moscow bolthole since August. He sold his Gulfstream jet, and bought an Embraer Praetor 600, so not to be affected by Russian sanctions. A new Embraer Praetor 600 jet starts around $21m USD. El-Helou has 3 different passports, with 3 different names he can travel under. One of these is a Mexican passport.
 His jet waits for a destination at Moscow Vnukovo airport. | If his Gulfstream ever broke down in Russia, Sami would be screwed for parts. Those are only available on the Chinese black market at huge cost and long wait times. With a Brazilian jet, there are no such issues.
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| The US heat on El-Helou, once large, has tapered off. An expected FBI 'most wanted' notice for Sami El-Helou never materialized. It always may. Sami El-Helou has a luxurious office on the 91st floor (Suite 9124) in the east tower of Moscow's Federation tower. Brightway Capital Partners has a staff of 42. El-Helou's primary business involves working with the FSB to evade economic sanctions by disbursing money to Kremlin assets in the west to buy high demand goods and electronics which are then trans-shipped through Dubai to Moscow.
A three-floor, 10,000 sq ft penthouse served by 2 high speed elevators sits atop the Federation Tower on floors 95-97. Price is RUB2.6 billion or $35m USD. Here. |
|  | Russian women that work for El-Helou are expendable and very expendable by age 30. "Be Silent, or be Silenced' is the motto they live and die by. 3 women have disappeared over 5 years. They are silenced after learning too much. Sami El-Helou has been hiding in Moscow since August with Russian wife Natalia. The heat on El-Helou increased in Dubai. He was tipped off of an assassin plot so he left the UAE. Its said a competitor in the business wants him dead. That is a large list. El-Helou is safe in Moscow. |  |
 | In October 2024 Arsh Dalla aide Baljeet Singh was in the UAE and travelled on a private jet to meet El-Helou in Moscow, spent 5 days there, and returned to the UAE for meetings in Brightway offices, before going back to India where he was busted on arrival. |  |
 Kyiv offices were located on the top floor. | The US has its sights set on $15m of Sami El-Helou real estate in Ukraine. Brightway LLC was sanctioned by multiple countries for acting as a conduit bypassing sanctions on Iran. El-Helou simply operates Brightway in Moscow as a different identity. Ukraine was a country where Sami El-Helou operated with impunity. Storm clouds appeared in 2018. His Moscow residency and collusion with Russia meant that by 2019 he was under constant watch as a security threat. | El-Helou left Ukraine and was declared persona non grata. His fixer in Kyiv is Svitlana Bronska. She now holds Brightway Ukraine for him. |
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 | El-Helou had 15 apartments he was renting in Kyiv - only 2 of which have sold. His 'Brightway' is subject to multiple sanctions world-wide. He simply changed the name slightly and continued business in Russia. Sami El-Helou's luxury flat in Ukraine remains unsold. His opulent residence is for sale for $5m US. A case was reopened in America and involves Sami El-Helou. The information came about from the arrest of Ismael Zambada Garcia (El-Mayo) in July 2024. The 2 caged chapito got a deal from the U.S. government for turning in El-Mayo. Its business as usual for the 2 remaining Sinaloa Cartel chapitos. Sami El-Helou and his associates, including Gurtaj Singh Sandher could face extradition to the U.S. to face long prison sentences. |
 | Sami El-Helou is an Emirati citizen who immigrated to Canada with his parents Hamid and Fatima. He studied pharmacy at University of Waterloo and opened Brightway Pharmacy in Brampton under the Guardian Drugs banner. He lost his license to practice after getting busted for selling drugs. El-Helou left Canada in 2013. El-Helou's family were traders/smugglers in gold and other commodities, as well as being hawaladars. Sami El-Helou has taken it to the next level. He is a crypto trader using Brightway Financial LLP, based in the UAE. El-Helou washes crypto of rogue players. Dirty crypto is cashed out at a Moscow crypto exchange, Garantex being one, into a Russian Bank, wired into an account in a different Russian Bank under the name of a different entity, then used to buy clean assets. El-Helou uses accounts at Sberbank, Gazprombank, and VTB. He operates freely. |
The UAE is a well known destination for illicit cash, but it also serves as an intermediary for those laundering their money. UAE-based individuals provide professional money laundering services for criminals with impunity. Sami El-Helou is one.
 | He owns a luxury penthouse in Dubai Creek Harbour worth $15m, and owns a luxury home in Millennium Park Village (House 17) on the outskirts of Moscow. His family worked for Babbar Khalsa, and that's how El-Helou got involved with the Sandher family in the late 90's. He would later become friends with elder son Gurtaj Sandher, now 31. It is through Sami El-Helou that Gurtaj Sandher and Prabtaj Sandher got introduced to Sinaloa cartel connections in Vancouver. In order to do business with the Sinaloa Cartel the Sandher boys needed to be introduced, and then vetted. Sandher Family Trust owns a $5m suite in the Palm Jumeriah area. |
| Gurtaj Sandher was a guest at El-Helou's exclusive residence in the suburbs of Moscow.
 Tarnvir Sandher, Gurtaj Sandher, and Prabtaj Sandher have all travelled to Dubai to have sit downs with El-Helou. |
 Edgar Watson
 The other Sinaloa pilot was Roman Figueroa Ramirez. | Sandher helicopter pilots were Sinaloa Cartel operatives, brought to work for the Sandher crime family under the Agricultural Stream Program. Edgar Watson was imported into Canada by the Sandhers. When he sets foot in Canada he is the highest ranking Sinaloa in the country. Edgar Watson entered Canada July 22, 2024 and was in Kelowna with the Sandhers the week of August 14, 2024. He is seeking permanent resident status in Canada, sponsored by his mother, the Black Witch.
 The Sandhers have abused agricultural visa entry programs to bring gangsters into Canada for years. Here | The drug plot involved Amandeep Singh Kang of the Brothers Keepers and Sandher employee Carlos Raygozaparedes of the Sinaloa Cartel. Both are jailed now for wholesale drug trafficking. Kang was sentenced to 11 years. Raygozaparedes awaits a January trial in California without bail. |
 | Sandher greed is limitless. They acquired the former tower ranch on Black Mountain in 2020. The cover story for the massive drug lab bunker at 4502 Pyman Road is cherry orchards. Here Meanwhile its business as usual. A real estate rental company in Dubai is owned 50% by El-Helou and 50% by Sandher Family Trust. Elan Shoreline Holiday Home Rental was established in 2008. Sadaf 3, JBR, Elan Shoreline. https://elansuites.com contact@elansuites.com |