Canada will seek to prevent three alleged members of fugitive Ryan Wedding’s drug-trafficking network from being released on bail, a court in Toronto has heard.

The men — Gursewak Singh Bal, Deepak Balwant Paradkar and Rolan Sokolovski — were each arrested in Ontario last week and face extradition to the U.S. to stand trial over their alleged roles in the drug ring.

"We're opposing release on all three," Marin Nati, a lawyer for the Department of Justice Canada told a brief Superior Court of Justice hearing on Wednesday, held by videoconference.

Bal — a crime blogger who U.S. prosecutors accuse of helping to set up the assassination of an FBI witness — appeared by video link from a Kawartha Lakes, Ont., jail. Months before his arrest, he told CBC News he had accepted “substantial” m

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