FBI seizes $40m series, including MotoGP bikes, from drug lord
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Los Angeles division reports that drug baron Ryan James Wedding’s impressive series of racing bikes has been seized.
One in all the FBI’s ‘top 10 fugitives’, Wedding is a bike fanatic, alongside with his $40m series featuring Ducatis that were ridden by Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovisioso, Loris Capirossi and Andrea Iannone, in addition to Marc Marquez’s 2012 title-winning Moto2 bike and Rossi’s championship-clinching 125cc Aprilia.
The series used to be appropriate chanced on after being saved in a storage in Mexico, where these 50 racing bikes were reputedly left neglected.
“This month, Mexican authorities carried out a pair of search warrants and seized a trim selection of bikes with an estimated trace of approximately $40 million USD believed to be owned by FBI’s High Ten Fugitive Ryan James Wedding,” FBI Los Angeles posted on social media. “This successful seizure is a outcomes of collaborative efforts amongst Mexican authorities, the FBI, RCMP [Canadian police] and LAPD [Los Angeles police].
Photo from FBI Los Angeles
“There could be a reward up to $15 million USD for recordsdata resulting in his arrest and/or conviction. While it’s possible you’ll seemingly well moreover maintain any recordsdata relating Wedding, please contact the FBI.”
Ryan James Wedding is a dilapidated Olympic athlete from Canada who’s accused of operating a drug cartel and orchestrating the extinguish of a federal relish, in step with the United States’ Division of Justice.
There could be a market for procuring for and promoting bikes and, in same old, any form of MotoGP-linked memorabilia equivalent to helmets and suits, that are extremely coveted by collectors. Ducati has its possess channel to sell memorabilia, as does MotoGP itself.
Now that every these bikes were seized, whether or no longer the authorities will maintain them saved, auctioned or destroyed stays to be considered.
