Barzan Tilli-Choli (born 1982) is an Iraqi Gangster who served as the leader of the United Nations gang in 2008–2009, Originally from Zakho, Kurdistan, Iraq.
[1] He was never granted Canadian citizenship and only held permanent resident status, placing him in a legal category that made it easy for the government to deport him back to Iraq.
"[2] Among the "blunt instruments" were the "Iraqi group" that consisted of Tilli-Choli, Duane Meyer, Ion Croitoru, and Trevor "Fingers" Gilbert.
[4] A member of the UN gang who later turned Crown's evidence known only as C. due to a court order testified in 2017 that Tilli-Choli used his AK-47 assault rifle to shoot up the cars driven by King and Barber.
[5] Leaving King wounded in her car, Tilli-Choli then started shooting at the Porsche driven by Barber, pumping between 6-10 shots into his vehicle and killing him.
[6] Tilli-Choli was known for the "human safaris" as he would spend hours cruising the Lower Mainland in his automobile looking for the Bacon brothers and other members of the Red Scorpions gang.
[7] Ly was overheard on videotape telling Tilli-Choli to "unload the whole thing" (i.e fire the entire round of his AK-47) if he saw the Bacon brothers.
[10] In March 2009, the police arrested and charged in connection with the Willock-Sunderland shooting Tilli-Choli, Aram Ali, Nicola Cotrell and Sarah Trebble who was the girlfriend of the Hells Angel Larry Amero.
[11] Shortly afterwards, Tilli-Choli was arrested alongside Daniel Russell, Karwan Saed, Soroush Ansari, Dilun Heng, Yong Sung, Aram Ali and Ion Croitoru on charges of plotting the murder of the Bacon brothers.
[8] In December 2015, Ali, described by the judge at his trial as "a mercenary for hire who was prepared to shoot a person for money and put other people at very serious risk", was convicted of aggravated assault.
[15] On 19 January 2017, Tilli-Choli was deported back to his native Iraq after finishing his prison sentence for his conspiracy to commit murder conviction.