Deepak Balwant Paradkar, aged 62, is a defence lawyer from Thornhill, Ontario. He allegedly went beyond his role as a criminal barrister and advised Wedding and his aide Andrew Clark to murder an FBI witness. He said without the witness, the case would be dismissed and he can "avoid extradition from Mexico", according to the US indictment.

U.S. officials sanction the women accused of propping up fugitive drug lord Ryan Wedding’s sprawling narco operation.

While Wedding is named as the improbable mastermind behind a vast cocaine empire — compared by the FBI to history’s most notorious drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman — nine other people were also alleged by the U.S. government to form a “network of enablers” who stop him choking on a mountain of hard-to-use dirty money.

Ryan Wedding, whom the FBI calls the 21st-century Pablo Escobar, is on the run amid ongoing criminal investigations.Ryan Wedding was once a promising snowboarder who had played for Canada at

The US Department of the Treasury (DOJ) has issued charges against a former Olympic medalist accused of operating a global criminal organization using crypto. Ryan Wedding, dubbed a “Modern-Day Pablo Escobar,