Dubai Police arrests one of UK’s most wanted fugitives
DUBAI, 9th May 2021 (WAM) - Dubai Police have recently arrested a man wanted by the National Crime Agency (NCA)- UK, for eight years for his alleged role in a large-scale international drug trafficking plot in the Kingdom. The arrest was made shortly after receiving a Red notice from the Interpol.
Michael Paul Moogan, 35, from Croxteth, Liverpool, who featured as part of the Operation Captura most wanted fugitives campaign, was apprehended in Dubai as a result of joint working between Dubai Police and the NCA.
Moogan had been on the run since a raid that took place at a café in Rotterdam suspected of being used as a front for meetings between drug traffickers and cartels, and central to a 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.
Michael Paul Moogan, 35, was linked to an international drug smuggling probe
Moogan featured in National Crime Agency s most wanted fugitives campaign
Police believe he was linked to cartel which imported drugs from Latin America and bring them to Europe after they raided a café in Rotterdam back in 2013
Moogan, from Liverpool, was apprehended in Dubai after eight years on the run
Dubai Police arrest French drug lord ‘The Ghost’ involved in operations worth $82.6m
01 Apr 2021 A videograb shows the suspect under surveillance in Dubai. Gulf Today, Staff Reporter
The Dubai Police arrested Moufide ‘Mouf’ Bouchibi, a French drug lord involved in drug trafficking and smuggling operations across Europe with an estimated annual street value of 70 million euros ($82.6m).
Bouchibi, 39, who became an international kingpin known as ‘The Ghost’, had been travelling under false identity. He had been on the run for 10 years using forged documents when Dubai Police arrested him.
International Cooperation
Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, said the arrest is another achievement to the fruitful cooperation between Dubai Police and international law enforcement agencies towards ensuring the world’s security and safety.