""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 money to stay quiet about Wedding."
"U.S. prosecutors say Paradkar, a prominent Toronto-area lawyer, counselled Wedding to have the witness killed. Local jeweller and professional poker player Sokolovski is accused of laundering Wedding's proceeds of crime. Neither Paradkar or Sokolovski appeared for the hearing. Wedding, a former Team Canada Olympic snowboarder accused of running a Mexico-based drug-smuggling empire, is listed as one of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives. The U.S. State Department is offering a $15-million reward for information leading to his arrest."
""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.""
Canada will oppose bail for three men arrested in Ontario who face extradition to the United States on charges related to Ryan Wedding's drug-trafficking network. The suspects are Gursewak Singh Bal, Deepak Balwant Paradkar and Rolan Sokolovski. Bal is described as a crime blogger accused by U.S. prosecutors of helping to set up the assassination of an FBI witness and admitted accepting money to remain silent about Wedding. U.S. prosecutors allege Paradkar, a Toronto-area lawyer, counselled Wedding to have the witness killed. Sokolovski, a jeweller and poker player, is accused of laundering proceeds of crime. Wedding remains a fugitive with a $15-million U.S. reward.
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