GURPREET Singh, 31, of Greater Toronto Area, one of 10 Canadians indicted in the FBI Operation Giant Slalom for a range of serious charges including drug trafficking, murder, conspiracy to murder and continuing a criminal enterprise, has been refused bail by Superior Court of Justice Michael Dineen because his risk of flight is “unacceptably high,” the Toronto Star reported on Friday.

Last October, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Central District of California said that the leaders of the drug trafficking operation “conspired to ship bulk quantities of cocaine – weighing hundreds of kilograms – from Southern California to Canada through a Canada-based drug transportation network run by Hardeep Ratte, 45, of Ontario, Canada, and Gurpreet Singh, 30, of Ontario, Canada, from approximately January 2024 to August 2024.”

RCMP Federal Policing worked closely with the FBI during the investigation and acted as a crucial link to Canadian law enforcement, including Niagara Regional Police, Ontario Provincial Police, Toronto Police Service and Peel Regional Police.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said: “The organization resorted to violence – including multiple murders – to achieve its aims. [Ryan James] Wedding and [Andrew] Clark allegedly directed the November 20, 2023, murders of two members of a family in Ontario, Canada, in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through Southern California. Another member of that family survived the shooting but was left with serious physical injuries. Wedding and Clark allegedly also ordered the murder of another victim on May 18, 2024, over a drug debt. Clark and Malik Damion Cunningham, 23, a resident of Canada, are charged with the April 1, 2024, murder of another victim in Ontario, Canada.”

The Globe and Mail reported that Ontario Provincial Police Deputy Commissioner Marty Kearns, speaking to reporters in Los Angeles last October , identified the mistaken-identity victims killed last November as a couple residing in Ontario’s Caledon municipality – Jagtar Singh, 57, and his wife Harbhajan Kaur Sidhu, 55. Their adult daughter, who was also shot, survived.

Kearns said: “I want to stress that the family was completely innocent,” adding that the family was “mistakenly targeted and were not involved in the alleged trafficking organization.”

EARLIER this month, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs announced a reward offer under the Narcotics Rewards Program (NRP) of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction, in any country, of Canadian narcotics trafficker Ryan James Wedding.

This reward is offered in coordination with the governments of Canada and Mexico in a unified effort to bring Wedding to justice.

The FBI also announced the addition of Wedding to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.

Wedding is a former Olympic snowboarder who participated in the giant slalom snowboarding event for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. After his snowboarding career, Wedding turned to a life of crime as a transnational narcotics trafficker.  He is last known to be residing in Mexico.