Bolivian interior ministry says Sebastián Marset is being extradited to US, where he’s wanted for money laundering
Sebastián Marset, an alleged Uruguayan drug trafficker and one of South America’s most wanted criminals, has been arrested in Bolivia.
Marset, 34, is accused of trafficking tonnes of cocaine from South America to Europe, and also of having ordered the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor who was shot dead as he honeymooned on a Colombian beach in 2022.
Marset was also wanted by Washington for allegedly laundering money through US banks, and Bolivia’s interior minister, Marco Antonio Oviedo, said on Friday that he was already being extradited to the US.
The arrest marks the end of Marset’s criminal career as the self-anointed “King of the South” – a moniker he had stamped on bricks of cocaine. It also signalled a return to law enforcement cooperation between Bolivia and the US under the centrist government of Rodrigo Paz, almost 20 years after his leftwing predecessor Evo Morales expelled both the US ambassador and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
