FBI adds Goldy Brar to Ten Most Wanted list, raises bounty to $1 million

Fugitive gangster Goldy Brar has been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the agency announced on Monday, and the reward for information leading to his arrest has been raised from $50,000 to $1 million, or roughly Rs 9.58 crore.

Announcing the move, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, Patrick Grandy, identified Brar by his legal name, Satinderjeet Singh, and said he was being placed on the list on September 28.

Brar is wanted for alleged involvement in the Lawrence Bishnoi organised crime group, which authorities say has carried out violent acts across Southern California and elsewhere in the United States and Canada. According to the FBI, Brar is based in the US and is believed to lead the group's operations in North America. He had previously featured on the agency's most wanted list.

The charges against him include murder, extortion and drug distribution, as well as a role in the 2023 killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada.

Nijjar's death had strained India-Canada relations after then Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau spoke of a "potential link" between Indian government agents and the killing. In July this year, US authorities charged Bishnoi and Brar with ordering the assassination. Canadian police later said there was no evidence of official Indian involvement.

The US charges followed a US-led operation targeting three criminal gangs engaged in transnational crime, one of them led by Bishnoi, who is lodged in a Gujarat jail. On July 7, 2026, the US attorney's office announced the results of Operation Hardball and unsealed three indictments charging 37 people linked to three India-based transnational organised crime groups.

Lisa Moreland, deputy commissioner of federal policing for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which is investigating the Nijjar case, said Brar and his network had caused devastation through high-profile murders, shootings, death threats, extortion, arson and drug trafficking.

Bishnoi, a 33-year-old from Punjab, was a self-styled university student leader before turning to crime, investigators say. The Canadian government designated the Bishnoi enterprise as a terrorist entity in September 2025.