Two Canadian men of Indian origin have been charged in what U.S. authorities are calling a sweeping transnational crackdown on an alleged multibillion-dollar cocaine trafficking network run by former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding. The charges were made public on Tuesday as part of Operation Giant Slalom, a coordinated U.S.–Canada–Colombia investigation that led to 10 arrests this week and a total of 29 people indicted.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the nine-count indictment accuses Wedding, a 2002 Olympian now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, of directing violent attacks to protect his alleged trafficking enterprise. The DOJ alleges he ordered the 31 January 2025 assassination of a cooperating witness in Medellín, Colombia, and previously sanctio

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