"Sebastian Marset, an alleged Uruguayan drug trafficker and one of South America's most wanted criminals, has been arrested in Bolivia. Marset, 34, is accused of trafficking tonnes of cocaine from South America to Europe, and also of having ordered the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor who was shot dead as he honeymooned on a Colombian beach in 2022."
"The arrest marks the end of Marset's criminal career as the self-anointed King of the South a moniker he had stamped on bricks of cocaine. It also signalled a return to law enforcement cooperation between Bolivia and the US under the centrist government of Rodrigo Paz, almost 20 years after his leftwing predecessor Evo Morales expelled both the US ambassador and the Drug Enforcement Administration."
"On his release in 2019 he moved to Paraguay on a fake Bolivian passport in the name of Gabriel de Souza Beuner, where he allegedly built the networks to traffic drugs from Bolivia, which is both a cocaine producer and key transit hub for Peruvian cocaine, and on to Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany."
Sebastian Marset, a 34-year-old Uruguayan drug trafficker known as the 'King of the South,' was arrested in Bolivia and extradited to the United States. Marset faced accusations of trafficking large quantities of cocaine from South America to Europe and ordering the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor in 2022. He was also wanted for money laundering through US banks. His arrest represents a significant shift in Bolivia's law enforcement cooperation with the US under President Rodrigo Paz, contrasting with the previous administration's expulsion of US drug enforcement officials. Marset had previously served prison time in Uruguay, where he allegedly established connections with major criminal organizations including Brazil's Primeiro Comando da Capital and Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia. He operated using multiple fake passports across various countries before his capture.
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