Marco Eben was one of the ‘Most Wanted Fugitives’ of Europe for smuggling drugs from Brazil to Netherlands.
A guilty drug kingpin in the Netherlands – is considered one of the most wanted criminals in Europe – a gun battle in Mexico.
Officials said on Friday that 32 -year -old Marco Eben was shot dead from Mexico City at 25 km (15 mi) at Municipal Etizapan de Jaragoza.
Abben, who once stopped his death, was shot dead on Thursday in a car park outside the Mexican capital.
Experts confirmed Aben’s identity, an official of the state prosecutor office told the AFP news agency, asked not to be named as they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
European Law Enforcement Agency Europeol listed Abben as one of Europe’s “Most Wanted Figures” for smuggling drugs from Brazil to Netherlands.
Its website says that he was sentenced in absence in October 2020, which was sentenced to more than seven years to jail. He had managed to avoid arrest since handing over the punishment.
In May 2024, Abben spoke to the Dutch Regional Broadcaster Regionmund to say that he had nothing with a series of explosions targeting a plumber in Vellaldingan city.
Between 2014 and 2015, Abben and his companions smuggled 400 kg (880 pounds) of cocaine (880 pounds) 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 news reports, Abben was accused of linking one of one of the groups, but no evidence of his death at that time, except for 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.
In addition, on Friday, Mexican officials stated that they arrested a suspected Sinaloa Cartel Drug Traffikar active in the northern state Chihuahua, desired by the United States.
Mexican media recognized him as Hamberto Riviera, aka “El Cho,” “L Don” or “L Viazone”.