A B.C. gangster convicted of multiple crimes — including a downtown Vancouver murder — is Canada’s third-most-wanted man.
Rabih Alkhalil has been on the national be-on-the-look out-for (BOLO) list since his July 21, 2022 escape from a B.C. prison while he was on trial for murder.
He is number three on the 25-person list and the only one from B.C.
Alkhalil, 37, is on the list after Dave ‘Pik’ Turmel, 28, who is wanted by the Quebec City Police Service for substance trafficking, and All Boivin, 35, sought by the Sûreté du Québec for drug trafficking.
Most of the men on the list are wanted for murder with some allegedly involved in manslaughter, drug or firearm offences.
The reward for information about Turmel and Boivin is up to $250,000 each, and information about Alkhalil is up to $50,000.
Alkhalil escaped from Port Coquitlam’s North Fraser Pretrial Centre with the assistance of two accomplices posing as contractors.
“Rabih Alkhalil is wanted on Canada-wide warrants for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and being unlawfully at large,” the BOLO notice said. “He is a very dangerous criminal with a lengthy criminal record and extensive ties to organized crime.”
In 2017, an Ontario judge sentenced him to life in prison for the first-degree murder of a man in a Toronto coffee shop. He was also given a concurrent sentence of 20 years for conspiracy to commit murder.
In 2020, in Quebec, Alkhalil received eight years in prison for drug trafficking.
On Aug. 30, 2022, after his escape from the North Fraser Pretrial Centre, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Alkhalil guilty of first-degree murder, the crime for which he had been standing trial in British Columbia.
The case involved the January 2012 death of Surrey crime boss Sandip Duhre. As he was dining at Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre his dinner guest pulled out a pistol and shot him multiple times in the face.
Alkhalil is known to use the aliases of Rabi, Robby, Robbi, Rabih Al Khalil, Philip Betencourt Furtado, Philip Bettenecourt Furtado.
The Wolfpack gang member was extradited back to Canada from Greece after his arrest there in 2012.
He is described as five feet, 10 inches tall, and weighing 165 pounds with a small to medium build. He has black hair and two birthmarks on his left cheek with a faint scar above his nose near his left eyebrow.
Anyone who spots him is asked not to approach but to call the police instead.
Rewards
The announcement of the updated BOLO list included statements from BOLO program director Maxime Langlois, Quebec City Police Service Chief Denis Turcotte and Sûreté du Québec Chief Johanne Beausoleil.
“All BOLO rewards are offered for any information leading to the arrests of the suspects, period,” Langlois said. “The eventual conviction of these accused has nothing to do with our rewards. If your tip is successful, our priority will be to get you the money you deserve as soon as possible, like we’ve done several times over the past seven years.”
He said 30 of the 70 fugitive cases in which BOLO has featured in past years resulted in arrests.
The bulk of the national news conference on Wednesday was held in French from the Sureté de Québec offices in Montreal.
