He was one of the most wanted in Europe, since he was on the list of one hundred dangerous fugitives published by Europol.

The National Police located him in a luxury urbanization in Barcelona and after a surveillance device in complex conditions managed to arrest him.

This is EK, alias DEC, and he is considered by the Slovenian police and judicial authorities as a "high-value target" for being involved in transporting more than 300 kilos of heroin from Iran to Slovenia, a crime that could lead to imprisonment for ten years.

At the end of 2019 they received an extradition order from Slovenia for drug trafficking for the arrest of EK, since he was part of Europol's European list of fugitives.

A few months earlier, the suspect, along with four other people, bought drugs and organized their transportation from Iran to Slovenia with the aim of selling them.

They carried 800 bags of ceramic adhesive, where they hid 25 specially marked bags and in which there was a total of 302.3 kilograms of heroin.

All of this was traveling inside a container that arrived at the port of Koper, in Slovenia, and from there to a warehouse.

That same day, the detainee, accompanied by another person, arrived at the scene with the intention of seizing the substances, loading the 25 bags of heroin in two vehicles.

Based on the exchange of information between the National Police and the Slovenian Police, which revealed data on the false entities he used, the properties he had lived in and the vehicles he had used, the agents located him near Barcelona where he lived with his family in a luxury development next to a golf course.

The characteristics of the area and the existence of a residents' chat to warn of any strange presence of which the investigated could be part, forced the agents to establish a distant surveillance of the house from the forest.

After locating him, the agents arrested him in an operation with two Slovenian police officers expressly displaced to the scene.

The dangerousness of the suspect, possibly armed and with an unpredictable attitude, made it necessary to act with surprise and forcefulness to obtain his arrest.

violent fugitive

In a different operation also in Barcelona, ​​the agents arrested a suspect wanted in Germany for various acts related to marijuana trafficking for which he faces more than 18 years in prison.

They located him in a hotel in the city with two other people and when he identified himself to arrest him, the fugitive reacted with great violence, causing injuries of various kinds to two of them.

Immediately, he fled on foot over several walls and fences.

He was pursued at all times by another agent and intercepted when he tried to jump another fence.

Due to the violent acts committed by the detainee, an agent was injured with multiple blows to the body, while another suffered a broken sternum, as well as various bruises.

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