Potential sureties for Ryan Wedding’s alleged money launderer questioned on his lavish lifestyle

Two proposed sureties for a jeweller accused in the United States of laundering money for an allegedly violent, international cocaine smuggling ring told a Toronto court on Wednesday that they were unaware of how he paid for what prosecutors described as his affluent lifestyle.

Rolan Sokolovski, 37, has been in jail since November, facing extradition to the United States on charges he helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars for a drug-trafficking network allegedly run by former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. He’s among eight people in Canada charged in connection to their alleged ties to Mr. Wedding, including Toronto-area lawyer Deepak Paradkar, who is accused of advising the organization on the killing of a police informant.