OFAC sanctions former Canadian Olympian and his criminal network, freezing their assets and blocking U.S. transactions to disrupt a transnational cocaine-trafficking operation

The action targets Ryan James Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder now listed among the FBI “Ten Most Wanted,” along with nine associates and nine affiliated entities, for running a violent, transnational cocaine-trafficking network that moves multi-ton shipments from Colombia and Mexico into North America, and allegedly orders murders abroad to protect the enterprise…