Most needed Dutch drug trafficker, who as soon as faked his personal loss of life, killed in Mexico

A convicted drug trafficker from the Netherlands who was one in all Europe’s most needed criminals was murdered in Mexico, an official stated Friday.

Marco Ebben, 32, was shot and killed on Thursday in Atizapan de Zaragoza, a municipality about 15 miles from the capital Mexico Metropolis.

Specialists confirmed Ebben’s id, an official on the state prosecutor’s workplace advised AFP, asking to not be named as a result of they weren’t approved to speak in regards to the case.

Ebben, who as soon as faked his loss of life, is listed by Europe’s regulation enforcement company’s “most needed fugitives” checklist for smuggling medication from Brazil to the Netherlands.

Europol’s web site says he was sentenced in October 2020 to greater than seven years in jail. He had managed to evade arrest since that sentence was handed down.

Between 2014 and 2015, Ebben and his accomplices allegedly smuggled 400 kilograms, or greater than 880 kilos, of cocaine in containers full of pineapples, in line with Europol.

To evade arrest, Ebben reportedly faked his loss of life final October within the Mexican cartel stronghold of Culiacan amid a turf struggle between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Based on native media, Ebben was accused of hyperlinks to one of many factions however no proof of his loss of life was discovered on the time, aside from a press release from an alleged girlfriend who claimed to have acknowledged the physique.

The violence in Sinaloa adopted the shock arrest on U.S. soil of cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in late July, which is believed to have unleashed an inside energy battle.

Mexican authorities stated Friday they’d arrested a suspected Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker energetic within the northern state of Chihuahua who was needed by the US.

Native media recognized him as Humberto Rivera, alias “El Chato,” “El Don” or “El Viejon.”