Overview
- A superseding indictment accuses Wedding of orchestrating the January 2025 murder of a U.S. federal witness in Medellín, using a Canadian website to help identify the target.
- New counts include murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and drug crime, witness tampering and retaliation, money laundering, and cocaine trafficking conspiracies.
- Seven suspects in Canada were arrested, including lawyer Deepak Paradkar and “Dirty News” operator Gursewak Singh Bal, with U.S. extradition requests pending under Operation Giant Slalom.
- Justice Canada confirmed the provisional arrest of Montreal-area resident Atna Onha on U.S. charges including conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to traffic drugs.
- Officials say Wedding remains at large in Mexico under Sinaloa cartel protection; more than 35 defendants have been charged, investigators seized about $3.2 million in cryptocurrency and over $13 million in assets, and a separate $2 million reward targets the witness’s killers.