Overview
- Bolivian police detained the Uruguayan national in Santa Cruz de la Sierra during a pre-dawn operation that also led to four additional arrests.
- Authorities handed Marset to DEA personnel at the city’s airport and placed him on a U.S.-registered aircraft bound toward the United States.
- Marset had been listed by the DEA as a most-wanted fugitive, with a $2 million reward offered for information leading to his capture.
- A U.S. indictment accuses him of running a network that moved at least 16 tons of cocaine to Europe, including 11 tons through the port of Antwerp, generating tens of millions in proceeds.
- Investigators link the operation to activity in Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, and Bolivia’s president called the capture a historic event.