A Canadian crime blogger accused of helping fugitive Ryan Wedding set up the killing of an FBI informant told CBC News earlier this year he was given “a significant amount of money” to stay silent on the case.

Gursewak Singh Bal, of Mississauga, Ont., is now facing multiple charges in the United States, including conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise.

Bal, 31, was named in the sprawling federal grand jury indictment unsealed on Wednesday, as the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced further arrests in connection with Wedding’s alleged transnational drug-smuggling network.

According to the indictment, Bal ran the “Canadian urban news outlet” known as the Dirty News. Before the site was taken down at the request of U.S. authorities this wee

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