Deepak Paradkar, a famous defence lawyer in Canada, was arrested and will now be extradited to the US as the US accused him of helping murder a witness who was set to testify against Deepak's client Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic athlete who turned into a drug lord. Deepak Paradkar is known for his high-profile clients, mostly drug lords, which also makes him popularly known as 'cocaine lawyer'. It was the profile name that he used on social media as he posted photos of clients getting cleared of drug charges. This is the advice that Paradkar gave to Wedding months before an FBI witness was gunned down at a restaurant in Colombia. He was shot five times in the head in January 2025. The former Olympic snowboarder ended up on the FBI's most wanted list for allegedly running a m
Indian-origin 'cocaine lawyer' Deepak Paradkar arrested in Canada for helping ex
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