Overview
- The Justice Department unsealed a superseding case adding murder, witness tampering, money laundering, drug trafficking and intimidation allegations against Ryan Wedding, whom prosecutors call the head of a transnational enterprise.
- The State Department set a $15 million reward for information leading to Wedding’s capture and the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted list.
- Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Wedding and nine related individuals and entities, saying he remains a fugitive believed to be in Mexico directing criminal activity.
- Canadian arrests tied to the probe include Gursewak Singh Bal, co‑founder of The Dirty Newz, and the FBI seized that website after an indictment alleged it was used to expose a federal witness; the filing also alleges Allistair Chapman paid $10,000 to shift posts toward the target.
- Court documents identify the slain witness as Jonathan Acebedo‑Garcia, killed in Medellín in January 2025, and allege Wedding confirmed the hit via encrypted messages, while three suspects in the assassination remain at large.