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Motorbike collection worth $40m seized from Olympian turned ‘drug kingpin’

Mexican police have seized a $40m (£30m) motorcycle collection believed to be owned by the former Olympian and alleged drug kingpin Ryan James Wedding.

Wedding, a snowboarder who represented his native Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is responsible for trafficking 60,000 kg of cocaine every year, according to the FBI.

The US department of justice has described the 44-year-old as the “largest distributor of cocaine in Canada” and on a par with the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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