MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's top anti-drug official said Monday his agency had helped a team of international law enforcement agencies catch a Mexican drug kingpin suspected of trafficking at least 30 tons of cocaine.
On October 28, a joint team of officers from Nicaragua, El Salvador, the United States and Russia tracked the movements of the internationally wanted trafficker from Costa Rica to El Salvador, Russia’s Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov told reporters Monday.
The suspect was later arrested at an airport in El Salvador’s capital and deported to Nicaragua, Ivanov said.
He said that the alleged drug lord is suspected of trafficking some 30 tons of cocaine from Costa Rica, mainly to Guatemala, profiting at least $200 million.
