Two Indian-origin Canadians charged in US led cartel crackdown; alleged to have helped fugitive druglord in murder, bribery

A sweeping US led crackdown on an international drug trafficking network has resulted in the arrests of 10 people, including two Indian-origin Canadians, after investigators linked the group to a brutal witness killing in Colombia earlier this year. According to a press release by the Justice Department, The case centres on Ryan James Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder accused of running one of the most violent narcotics organisations connected to the Sinaloa Cartel. The arrests follow the unsealing of a nine-count federal indictment that involves a wide criminal network stretching across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Wedding has been living in Mexico and is accused of directing murders, laundering drug proceeds and even ordering the kill