Marco Ebben was one in all Europe’s ‘most needed fugitives’ for smuggling medication from Brazil to the Netherlands.
A convicted drug kingpin from the Netherlands – thought-about one in all Europe’s most needed criminals – has been killed in a gun battle in Mexico.
Marco Ebben, 32, was shot useless in Atizapan de Zaragoza, a municipality 25km (15 miles) from Mexico Metropolis, authorities stated on Friday.
Ebben, who as soon as faked his personal demise, was killed in a shootout in a carpark outdoors the Mexican capital on Thursday.
Consultants confirmed Ebben’s id, an official on the state prosecutor’s workplace advised the AFP information company, asking to not be named as a result of they weren’t authorised to debate the case.
European legislation enforcement company Europol listed Ebben as one in all Europe’s “most needed fugitives” for smuggling medication from Brazil to the Netherlands.
Its web site says he was sentenced in absentia in October 2020 to greater than seven years in jail. He had managed to evade arrest since that sentence was handed down.
In Might 2024, Ebben spoke to the Dutch regional broadcaster Rijnmond to say he had nothing to do with a collection of explosions focusing on a plumber within the metropolis of Vlaardingen.
Between 2014 and 2015, Ebben and his accomplices allegedly smuggled 400kg (880 kilos) of cocaine in containers crammed with pineapples, in keeping with Europol.
To evade arrest, the Dutchman reportedly faked his demise final October within the Mexican cartel stronghold of Culiacan amid a turf struggle between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
In accordance with information experiences, Ebben was accused of hyperlinks to one of many factions however no proof of his demise was discovered on the time, aside from a press release from an alleged girlfriend who claimed to have recognised 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 wrestle.
Additionally on Friday, Mexican authorities stated they arrested a suspected Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker energetic within the northern state of Chihuahua who was needed by america.
Mexican media recognized him as Humberto Rivera, alias “El Chato,” “El Don” or “El Viejon”.
