Brazilian federal police arrested one of the "biggest international traffickers" in Hungary yesterday, Tuesday, nicknamed "Brazilian Pablo Escobar", who had been on the run since 2020 and is suspected of being the head of a huge cocaine trafficking ring bound for Europe.
The Brazilian police, working with Interpol, "confirms the arrest of Serbian Hobert de Carvalho, known as Policeman Carvalho, considered one of the biggest traffickers internationally today," it said in a press release.
According to Brazilian police, "Pablo Escobar of Brazil," a former police officer, was living in Europe and using fake documents to evade authorities.
After being arrested in Spain, where he was living under a false identity, for drug trafficking, he was released on bail and forged a death certificate to evade justice, according to a report carried by Brazilian TV network Globo last year.
A warrant had been issued for the arrest of "policeman Carvalho" in November 2020, as part of an operation that led to the seizure of nearly $100 million worth of assets "of the criminal organization he ran," according to Brazilian federal police.
The investigation extended to Colombia, Panama, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Belgium, the Netherlands, Romania and Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
Source: CNA
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