Snowboarder-turned-drug kingpin allegedly threatened to kill Montreal man’s mom over debt

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A Montreal entrepreneur was allegedly told to repay a drug debt or see a hit ordered on his mom by Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, according to a recent indictment filed by the U.S. prosecutors.

Both Nahim Jorge Bonilla and Wedding were named as defendants in October when the FBI announced it had charged 16 people in connection with a cocaine ring that had imported 60 tonnes of cocaine per year into the U.S. and Canada.

The indictment alleges that Wedding was the top dog in the organization, and that he and another Canadian named Andrew Clark had struck a deal with Bonilla for 12 kg of cocaine.

The pair were said to have struck a deal with Bonilla, which saw them provide him with 12 kg of cocaine, in which he paid for seven while Wedding “fronted” him the rest.

On June 14, the former Canadian snowboarder sent Bonilla a message that he had three days to settle up for the remaining five kilos of cocaine or else his mom’s life was on the line.

Wedding communicated his message through an app called Threema where the group would often use coded messages, according to the indictment.

Bonilla would soon pay for two of the kilos by sending more than US$17,300 in cryptocurrency to Wedding.

For the remainder of the money owed, he would allegedly be sending 20 kilos of meth to the Montreal area.

On June 19, Bonilla sent a photograph of the shipment to Clark through Threema.

A day later, the indictment says that “a photograph of a 10-dollar Canadian bill as a verification ‘token’ so that CC-3 would know that s/he was meeting with the correct person.”

The following day, the shipment was received and on June 25 Wedding sent a message on Threema, which said that Bonilla’s debt had been settled.

None of the allegations made