‘Hired and paid’ hit men killed B.C. ex-suspect in Air India bombing: court document [Video]

The day before Ripudaman Singh Malik was murdered in July 2022, a pair of hired hit men showed up at his B.C. business, “scoping out the scene” for several minutes before driving away.

The next morning, Tanner Fox and Jose Lopez appeared again at the business park in Surrey, B.C., and fired seven shots into Malik’s Tesla, killing him as he sat in the driver’s seat.

The sped off in a stolen car, which was later found on fire in a nearby laneway.

The details of Malik’s murder are outlined in an agreed statement of facts filed in B.C. Supreme Court as Fox and Lopez await sentencing after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

The statement, provided by the BC Prosecution Service, confirms the men were “hired and paid,” but does not say who ordered the assassination.

In 2005, Malik was acquitted in B.C. Supreme Court along with his co-accused, Ajaib …