Pazooki Farhad escaped a police operation to take down the gang which Spanish detectives went public with last month.
A powerful drug lord accused of masterminding a cocaine smuggling sailboat plot that saw two Scots arrested has been captured in Colombia.
Last month the National Crime Agency said ten British nationals had been arrested as part of a “multi-agency investigation” into drug trafficking from South America to Europe launched in 2020.On December 18, 2023, a Spanish-registered yacht was raided 1,200 miles east of Martinique in the Caribbean by a French navy frigate.
A second Norwegian named as Bernsten Bjarte was also held by police in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. “The man dubbed ‘The Professor’ is suspected of leading the largest ‘narco sailboat’ organisation in the world. It’s known he comes from a wealthy Norwegian family and that he’s been captured at least 40 times for different crimes.In a statement last month after Spanish police went public with the Operation Mentor arrests, Britain’s NCA said: “Ten British nationals have been arrested as part of multi-agency investigation into drug trafficking from South America to Europe.
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