A prominent Canadian defence lawyer was arrested Tuesday and accused in the United States of helping kill a witness who was set to testify against a former Canadian Olympic athlete wanted as a top-tier global narco boss.

The lawyer was publicly named by officials and in an indictment filed in U.S. court as Deepak Paradkar, who is known as a scrappy drug defence specialist who previously represented serial killer Dellen Millard.

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