Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is accused of running a multi-national drug cartel and orchestrating the murder of a federal witness by posting the victim’s image on a fake news website.

The FBI, calling him a modern-day Pablo Escobar, has raised the reward for his capture to $15 million and says he is hiding in Mexico under the Sinaloa cartel’s protection.

Wedding faces charges including witness tampering, murder, money laundering, drug trafficking, and intimidation, and U.S. authorities have also arrested 10 alleged accomplices, including Canadians and a Colombian national.

The cartel, allegedly the largest supplier of cocaine to Canada, is said to generate over $1 billion annually, with operatives involved in murder-for-hire and other criminal enterprises, the BBC has reported.

Wedding, who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, reportedly began his criminal empire after his release from U.S. prison in 2011 and is believed to have ordered dozens of killings worldwide.