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He was sentenced to seven years behind bars in 2020 but never served a single day
- Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
- Published: 9:33, 16 Feb 2025
- Updated: 9:38, 16 Feb 2025
ONE of Europe's most wanted drug kingpins has been gunned down in Mexico after years of evading arrest.
Marco Ebben, who once even faked his own death to avoid cops, was shot and killed just outside Mexico City this week.
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The 32-year-old convicted drug trafficker was on the top of Europol's "most wanted fugitives" list after years of being linked to international drug trades.
Officials managed to hit him with a seven-year prison sentence in 2020 for allegedly smuggling 400 kilograms of cocaine in containers filled with pineapples.
The offences took place between 2014 and 2015 in a suspected drug trafficking route from Brazil to the Netherlands.
The details around his death are yet to be confirmed but he is suspected to have been targeted by rival gangsters.
An image allegedly shows the kingpin's body laying on the ground of a parking lot in an upscale residential complex in Atizapán de Zaragoza.
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