High-profile Brampton defence lawyer Deepak Paradkar has been arrested after being charged with helping a massive illegal drug organization murder witnesses, enlist corrupt lawyers and streamline drug routes.

Paradkar, who’s nicknamed “Napoleon” by GTA colleagues for his tough courtroom tactics, was charged Tuesday with plotting murders with fugitive drug kingpin Ryan Wedding, who’s accused of running a billion-dollar-a-year drug enterprise.

Among other things, Paradkar is accused of advising Wedding to murder a cooperating witness, saying that his assassination would result in the collapse of the FBI case. That witness — Jonathan Acabedo-Garcia — was killed in Medellin, Colombia, in January 2025; the case against Wedding’s drug organization did not collapse.

The announcement was made

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