Mexico City:
A Dutch drug trafficker who was one of Europe’s most desired criminals and once his death was allegedly killed in Mexico, an official said on Friday that an official said on Friday.
The 32 -year -old Marco Eben was shot at the municipality Daragoza, a municipality of about 25 km (15 mi) from the capital Mexico City on Thursday.
Experts confirmed Aben’s identity, an official of the state prosecutor’s office told AFP, not to be named as he was not authorized to talk about the case.
European Law Enforcement Agency Europeol listed Abben as one of Europe’s “Most Wanted Fugitives” for smuggling drugs from Brazil to Netherlands.
Its website says that he was sentenced to more than seven years in jail in October 2020.
Between 2014 and 2015, Abben and his associates allegedly smuggled 400 kg of cocaine in pineapple containers, according to Europeol.
To avoid arrest, Dutchman placed his death in the last October last October between a Turf War between two groups of Sinaloa Cartel in the Mexican Cartel Garh.
According to local media, Abben was accused of a link to one of the groups, but no evidence of his death at that time, leaving a statement of an alleged girlfriend, who claimed to recognize the body.
Violence in Sinaloa follows a surprising arrest on the American soil of Cartel’s co-founder Ismail “L. Mayo” Zamba, which is believed to have exposed an internal strength conflict.
Mexican officials said on Friday they arrested a suspected Sinaloa Cartel Drug Traffikar, who was wanted by the United States, who was wanted by the United States. Local media recognized him as Hamberto Riviera, aka “El Chaato,” “L Don” or “L Viazone”.
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