Accused Ryan Wedding lawyer Deepak Paradkar granted bail in extradition case

An Ontario Superior Court judge has granted bail to a Toronto-area criminal lawyer facing U.S. extradition on charges that he helped plot the murder of a government witness against an alleged Canadian cocaine-trafficking organization.

Deepak Paradkar, 62, who once used the social-media handle “Cocaine lawyer,” was among eight Canadians arrested last month as part of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s sprawling probe into former Olympic snowboarder turned fugitive Ryan Wedding.