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“Ansari told her, ‘Get rid of them,’ more than once,” Regis said in court, explaining Ansari told the tenant he didn’t want the fire department discovering the basement apartment wasn’t up to code.

Emergency crews found no signs that anyone had lived there, but instead discovered 33 guns — some loaded — as well as ammunition and a large amount of an unidentified, suspected illegal substance.

Ansari was released on consent on Sept. 26 with his wife, a real estate agent and his parents acting as sureties.

On Oct. 12, lab analysis determined the seized substance was 42 kilos of carfentanil, as well as 17 kilos of a cutting agent and caffeine — the largest such seizure of the synthetic opioid in Canadian history.

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Cops then re-arrested Ansari and prosecutors vigorously sought his detention over the massive drug seizure, which police estimated was worth $20 million.

Regis instead ruled that Ansari should be freed, in order to maintain the public’s confidence in the administration of justice.

Ansari was the surety at the time for Fahad Hussain, who was accused of being a low-level crack dealer in Saskatoon in July 2015 and was awaiting trial.

“Ansari, Fahad and Faisal were all friends growing up in the same neighbourhood,” a source toldthe Sun. “Fahad decided to go out west, was arrested and then his friend Ansari came to his aid as his surety.”

Fahad has been in a persistent vegetative state in hospital with little brain activity after overdosing on a mixture of cocaine and heroin last summer, sources told the Sun.