A Toronto-area lawyer — who allegedly counselled fugitive Ryan Wedding to murder an FBI witness — is “not safe out there” and risks being assassinated if he’s released on bail, an Ontario court has been told.

Deepak Paradkar appeared from the prisoner box in a downtown Toronto court Friday for the third straight day of a bail hearing. Paradkar, 62, was arrested last month and faces extradition to the U.S. amid allegations he played a key role in Wedding’s purported murderous drug-trafficking empire.

Heather Graham, a lawyer for the Department of Justice Canada told the court that as long as Paradkar faces legal proceedings, he remains “a huge liability” to Wedding’s organization, which has been linked to dozens of murders.

Wedding’s network “is highly motivated” to prevent Paradkar from

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