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Fugitive drug lord has been arrested after his wife's constant posting on
social media helped authorities in Brazil capture him after a two-year manhunt.
Ronald
Roland, 50, was arrested last Tuesday at his condominium in the southeastern
city of Guarujá after his wife, Andrezza de Lima, had previously shared one of
their locations, TV Globo's news magazine show Fantastico revealed.
Fugitive
drug lord arrested after his wife.
Roland, de Lima, and their daughter were
sleeping when Federal Police raided their residence.
De
Lima, who owns a bikini shop, often posted their travels to Colombia, Dubai,
France, and Maldives.
The
kingpin was among eight people arrested as part of an operation across seven
states, with authorities seizing large amounts of cash, jewellery, weapons, a
boat, 34 cars, and an airplane.
Federal
Police investigators alleged that he had contacts with drug cartels in Mexico
and estimated he laundered $900 million over the last five years.
Fugitive
drug lord arrested after his wife
One of the 100 businesses that were used to
launder cash was his wife's bikini shop.
'Houses
were purchased in the name of companies whose partners were people without the
minimum economic capacity to acquire real estate, vehicles, aircraft,' Federal
Police agent Ricardo Ruiz told the network. 'We found partners of companies,
for example, who work in a restaurant, but who are partners in several
companies that moved tens of millions of reais.'
Ruiz
added that the agency had been looking into Roland's activities since 2012.
He was
working as an airline pilot at the time and was investigated for his
connections to drug traffickers who sent massive loads of drugs from Central
and South America to Mexico.
Fugitive
drug lord arrested after his wife
Roland raised eyebrows in 2019 when he moved
into a luxurious condominium in Uberlandia, a city in the nearby southeastern
state of Minas Gerais. He was spotted one week driving a $91,500 vehicle and
the following week one valued at $183,000 and a week later a luxury car worth $146,000.
'This
caught the attention of the neighbourhood. Who is this person who moved here,'
Ruiz said.
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