Key Witness Murder in a Fugitive former Olympic case undermines the Prosecutor’s Office: Lawyer of Crucified
A defense lawyer for the alleged copy of Canadian fugitive Ryan wedding has led to suspicion of the sustainability of the case against his client after a reported assassination of a key witness.
Former trucker Gurpreet Singh-Obtained that on Friday in a court in the center of Toronto in a court in the center in Toronto, he coordinated the cocaine shipments from California in Canada in Canada-He was at the bail hearing. He faces extradition to the US, where prosecutors want to be tried for drug-related charges.
Wedding, who competed for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Olympics in Utah, either called last week One of the 10 FBI 10 most demanding fugitives. The authorities offer an American $ 10 million award for information leading to his arrest.
In court, on Friday, Defense lawyer Peter Thorning made a look that the case of US authorities against Singh could be “undermined” now that the Main Witness of the FBI will no longer testify. He said the Canadian authorities did not give a reason to change plans.
Witness, formerly full of drugs, was the first identified From a star in Toronto as Canadian Colombian Jonathan Acebebebo-Garcia. A longtime collaborator of the wedding, court records suggest that the two met for the first time when both were closed in Texas more than a decade ago.
According to the reports of the Colombian media, Acebebo-Garcia was killed in the Medellin restaurant in January, before being able to testify in the widespread case of the FBI against the wedding and his associates.
According to the summary of the American evidence submitted to the superior court in Ontario, the witness met with Singh and his uncle and co-accused, Hardeep Ratte, in Auto-Tergovina Auto Body Store in Toronto as part of the FBI investigation. At the meeting – for which prosecutors said it was recorded – Singh and Ratte allegedly agreed to transport group quantities of cocaine on behalf of the wedding network.
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“This is a case involving one eyewitness in the most important evidence in this case, which is a meeting,” said Thorning Justice Superior Court Michael Dineen.
US prosecutors warned that they did not approve of the Singh bail, one of four co -accused weddings in Ontario custody. In a recent letter, they were submitted to the Court in Ontario that Singh, 31, represents a “significant” risk of flight and that the recent abduction incident suggests that he and his girlfriend owe a long wedding.
“The wedding does not need to get access to the additional loyalist by publishing Singha on a guarantee,” recently wrote an assistant American lawyers based in Los Angeles Maria Jhai and Lynds Alesop.
According to prosecutors, the wedding was due to negotiating a statement by Singha last summer after a man born in Bracmpton, Ont.
Singh’s lawyer, Thorning said on Friday that he would not comment on all “wild statements” before the court. But he insisted that Singh did not pose a flight risk and should be released with bail.
“There is no evidence of any ability to escape,” Thorning said.
Earlier that day, Singh testified from a witness box, saying quietly – sometimes making it difficult to hear from a public gallery – in Gray Blejzer and Navy Turtle. He said he had not earned revenue since his job with trucks went bankrupt in 2021.
Asked by the federal advisor of Kiran Gill about several long -term stays abroad – including weeks or months spent in the United Arab Emirates, Colombia and Mexico – Singh described them as business trips for his girlfriend, with all the costs he covered.
“She asked for more locations” for the Toronto Brunch restaurant, which Singh testified.
According to court records, a key witness to the FBI also flew to meet Singh last year in Dubai. US prosecutors state that Singh has “extensive relationships of organized crime in Dubai, including relations with members of Ganda Kinahan, who is a well -known, violent group for an organized crime that operates around the world.”
Singh was also allegedly involved in the shipping scheme of stolen cars in Dubai through the port of Montreal.
Toronto police arrested Singha in October on the 34th floor of the St. Five -star regis. He told the court that he was living there with his girlfriend and that she had covered the payment of the rent. The woman was quietly sitting in the Singh Testimony Court.
His hearing for the guarantee continues on Friday afternoon.
