British Fugitive Arrested in Dubai on Drug-trafficking Charges
Voice of America
10 May 2021, 06:35 GMT+10
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - One of Britain s most wanted fugitives, a 35-year-old suspected of involvement in a plot to traffic huge quantities of cocaine, has been arrested in Dubai, authorities said Sunday.
Michael Paul Moogan, from Liverpool, had been on the run for eight years since a raid on a Rotterdam cafe that is suspected of being a front for meetings between drug traffickers and cartels.
The cafe was central to a plot to bring hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the U.K. every week, Dubai police said in a statement.
A MAN who is thought to be an international drug dealer has been arrested after years of investigation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and police in Dubai. One of Britain s most wanted men Michael Moogan, from Liverpool, had been on the run for eight years, accused of involvement in a large-scale trafficking plot. The 35-year-old was held on April 21 but the details were only made public for the first time today due to operational reasons, the NCA said. Moogan had been on the run since a raid at a Rotterdam cafe suspected of being used as a front for meetings between drug traffickers and cartels, and central to an alleged plot to bring hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the UK every week.
One of Liverpool s most wanted men held in Dubai sting
Moogan was named a wanted man after a police raid on the Cafe De Ketel in Rotterdam
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Michael Paul Moogan, 35, from Croxteth, who has been arrested in Dubai for his alleged role in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot
A fugitive linked by police to a cafe in Rotterdam used by international drug traffickers has been arrested in Dubai.
Croxteth man Michael Paul Moogan, 35, was named as wanted by police after a raid on the Cafe De Ketel in Rotterdam in 2013. Officers seized two
handguns, a radio scanner, hundreds of thousands of Euros, a cash-counting machine and dozens of mobile phones inside the coffee shop.