He dealt in drugs – and was on the Europol list of the most wanted criminals in Europe. Now the Spanish police have arrested the criminal. He faces a long prison sentence.
Madrid – The Spanish police have arrested one of the most wanted criminals in Europe in Catalonia.
The police said on Twitter on Saturday that it was a man who was wanted for smuggling more than 300 kilograms of heroin from Iran to Slovenia. The arrested person was on Europol’s list of the most wanted criminals in Europe.
🚩 One of the most wanted fugitives in #Europe arrested in #Barcelona.
He was part of EUROPOL’s EU MOST WANTED with more than a hundred dangerous fugitivesWanted in #Slovenia for trafficking more than 300Kg of heroin, he lived in a luxury urbanization with his family pic.twitter.com/QMl5A0z6L6
– National Police (@policia) February 12, 2022
Video released by police showed plainclothes officers stopping a car, punching down the driver and taking him away in handcuffs. The man lived with his family in a luxury estate in Sant Vicenç de Montalt, northeast of Barcelona. He faces ten years in prison. dpa
