January 13, 1972 - Roger Khan
Operating during a period of intense ethnic and criminal violence in Guyana, Khan built an organization that combined large-scale cocaine trafficking with what amounted to a private paramilitary force. The alleged ties between his "Phantom Squad" and elements of the Guyanese state gave his operations a particular impunity, blurring the line between organized crime and extrajudicial enforcement. Over two hundred deaths have been attributed to his network in just four years.
From Wikipedia
Shaheed "Roger" Khan (born 13 January 1972) is a Guyanese criminal who was active in drugs trafficking, money laundering and arms smuggling. He trafficked cocaine from Colombia into the United States and used construction and forestry businesses to launder money. Khan was considered to be Guyana's most powerful drug lord. In leaked US embassy cables Khan's control over Guyana is compared with Pablo Escobar's erstwhile control over Colombia.
Khan is allegedly the head of the notorious and lethal "Phantom Squad" which Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy has described as a murderous killing machine and which the US Federal Courts have said has already killed over 200 people during the 2002–2006 crimewave in Guyana.
There have been repeated claims that Khan had close ties with the Guyanese government. In 2006, after police issued an arrest warrant for him, Khan had publicly said in an advertisement that he was fighting criminals on behalf of the government.
Khan used to surround himself with a coterie of former police tactical squad members for security.
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