Sergio Carvalho, a 64-year-old former military police major and international cocaine trafficker known as the “Brazilian Escobar”, has been transferred from Hungary to Belgium under tight security.
Sergio Carvalho has been in prison in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, since the summer of 2022. The court of this country wanted to try him for forging identity documents. However, the Belgian prosecutor managed to negotiate with his Hungarian colleague about the transfer of Sergio Carvalho to this country in the center of Europe. At stake, among other crimes, is a 1.6 ton cocaine shipment that the Brazilian Escobars network wanted to smuggle from Fortaleza, Brazil, to Belgian territory on a Turkish plane. Sergio Carvalho was transported from prison to Budapest airport on Thursday in an armored personnel carrier accompanied by an armed escort by land and air. The Brazilian drug dealer is already in Belgium.
Meanwhile, Judge Carlos Alexandre freed this Friday Gurvinder Singh, an Indian merchant considered Rubén Oliveira’s right-hand man, or Shuks, the ringleader of Sergio Carvalho’s network in Portugal. The immigrant and José Cabral were released due to excessive house arrest and preventive detention.
Author: Miguel Curado
Source: CM Jornal
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