Mexico Metropolis:
A Dutch drug trafficker who was one among Europe’s most wished criminals and as soon as reportedly faked his personal dying has been murdered in Mexico, an official mentioned Friday.
Marco Ebben, 32, was shot on Thursday in Atizapan de Zaragoza, a municipality about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the capital Mexico Metropolis.
Specialists confirmed Ebben’s id, an official on the state prosecutor’s workplace instructed AFP, asking to not be named as a result of they weren’t approved to speak concerning the case.
European regulation enforcement company Europol listed Ebben as one among Europe’s “most wished fugitives” for smuggling medicine from Brazil to the Netherlands.
Its web site says he was sentenced in October 2020 to greater than seven years in jail.
Between 2014 and 2015, Ebben and his accomplices allegedly smuggled 400 kilos of cocaine in containers stuffed with pineapples, in response to Europol.
To evade arrest, the Dutchman reportedly faked his dying final October within the Mexican cartel stronghold of Culiacan amid a turf warfare between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
In keeping with native media, Ebben was accused of hyperlinks to one of many factions however no proof of his dying was discovered on the time, aside from an announcement from an alleged girlfriend who claimed to have acknowledged the physique.
The violence in Sinaloa follows the shock arrest on US soil of cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in late July, which is believed to have unleashed an inside energy battle.
Mexican authorities mentioned Friday they’d arrested a suspected Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker energetic within the northern state of Chihuahua who was wished by the USA. Native media recognized him as Humberto Rivera, alias “El Chato,” “El Don” or “El Viejon.”
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