A network of seemingly legitimate professionals in Canada and abroad are accused of keeping a billion-dollar drug cartel afloat under the violent leadership of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.
While Wedding is named as the improbable mastermind behind a vast cocaine empire — compared by the FBI to history’s most notorious drug lords Pablo Escobar and El Chapo Guzman — nine other people were also alleged by the U.S. government to form a “network of enablers” who stop him choking on a mountain of hard-to-use dirty money.
From a lawyer to a sex-trade madame, bookkeeper to special forces soldier, a wife, a girlfriend, crypto currency traders and businessmen, all face sanctions from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as well as Wedding himself who remains a most-wanted fugi

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