Brazil's 'Pablo Escobar' arrested in Hungary
06- 22- 2022 12:03 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO: A suspected drug trafficker known as the “Pablo Escobar of Brazil,“ was arrested in Hungary on Tuesday after more than a year on the run, police in the South American country said.
Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, known simply as “Mayor Carvalho,“ was arrested in cooperation with Interpol and Hungarian police, Brazil’s Federal Police said in a statement, describing him as “one of the biggest international traffickers today.”
According to Brazilian media, Carvalho is a former policeman who has long lived in Europe under a false identity.
He was arrested in Spain but after posting bail, faked his death of Covid-19 in 2020 and disappeared from the radar, TV Globo reported last year.
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Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, center
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21 JUN 2022 BY CHRIS DALBY
One of the largest suspected drug traffickers in the world, Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, a former Brazilian army major, has been arrested in Hungary after a prolonged manhunt.
On June 21, Carvalho was arrested living under a fake identity in Hungary, after a joint operation by local and Portuguese investigators. Few details about the arrest have been released but it appears he had been living in the country using a fake Mexican passport.
After being arrested in Spain under another fake name in 2020, Carvalho had disappeared without a trace. According to media reports earlier this year, Carvalho was rumored to have spent time in Portugal, Ukraine and Dubai since fleeing from Spain.
A former Brazilian military police officer, he was the alleged leader of a colossal drug trafficking network which moved drugs from Brazil to Europe, Africa and Asia. An investigation, published last year by local Brazilian newspaper, Tribuna do Norte, detailed how Carvalho’s network is believed to have moved over 17 tons of cocaine between 2017 and 2021 from Brazil’s northeastern port of Natal to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. However, he may have moved up to 45 tons of drugs by also using Brazil’s other large ports, including Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza and Paranaguá.
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