A Saskatchewan judge has sentenced a former international student from India to 11 years in prison after he pled guilty to drug trafficking and possessing proceeds of crime charges.
Jatinderpal Singh, 27, was an international student at an Ontario university where he finished his first year, but said he couldn’t afford to continue his second year and turned to drug trafficking to pay off his debts, Saskatoon provincial court Judge Lisa Watson’s Sept. 4 written decision says.
Since Singh was no longer attending university, his visa expired, and he had to take out loans and borrow money from friends and family to get by, according to the agreed statement of facts presented before the court. He was planning to return to India in 2024, but wanted to pay off his debts first and heard from a “friend of a friend” that he could make money by selling drugs….