The wife of an Ontario lawyer allegedly involved in a transnational drug smuggling ring told his bail hearing today she never saw her husband receive luxurious gifts or suspicious amounts of cash from clients in their decades together.

Federal prosecutors are asking Mandy Paradkar about the couple’s finances, assets and work as she continues her testimony in a Toronto courtroom.

Her husband, Deepak Paradkar, is one of eight Canadians arrested on extradition warrants last month in connection with an FBI operation targeting Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder allegedly turned drug kingpin.

U.S. officials allege Deepak Paradkar, 62, advised Wedding on the murder of a federal witness and introduced the former athlete to drug traffickers who moved product through North America.

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