Paradkar is charged with 'orchestrating the January 2025 murder of a witness who was shot five times in the head at a restaurant in Colombia'

A prominent Canadian defence lawyer was arrested Tuesday and accused in the United States of helping murder a witness who was set to testify against Ryan Wedding, 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 in Ontario who previously represented serial killer Dellen Millard.

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