(CNN) - Authorities are offering a $15 million reward for the capture of an accused international drug lord.

“Ryan Wedding is a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar,” FBI Director Kash Patel said.

Wedding is a former Olympic snowboarder who competed in the giant slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

More than two decades later, he’s a wanted man.

“Wedding abandoned an Olympic-level athletic path for depraved violence and cocaine trafficking,” said Chris Landberg with the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

Wedding is now at the center of a massive international investigation known as “Operation Giant Slalom.”

The goal is to capture Wedding and his alleged associates.

“He’s a modern-day iteration of El Chapo Guzman,” Patel said. “He is responsible for engineering a na

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