{"id":122103,"date":"2021-05-10T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122103"},"modified":"2021-05-10T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:59:52","slug":"british-fugitive-on-run-for-8-years-arrested-in-dubai-for-drug-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122103","title":{"rendered":"British fugitive on run for 8 years arrested in Dubai for drug plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/asset\/external-media\/afp\/AFP9665138053015491525274422642107722197400-police-crime-drugs-uae-crime-britain-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Michael Paul Moogan had been on the run for eight years-<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LONDON, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; One of Britain&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Paul Moogan, from Liverpool, had been on the run for eight years since a raid on a Rotterdam cafe suspected of being a front for meetings between drug traffickers and cartels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cafe was &#8220;central to a plot to bring hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the UK every week,&#8221; Dubai police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moogan used different identities to elude capture and entered the emirate under a false name and nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After he was tracked down, he was put under surveillance before being taken into custody on April 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This arrest is the result of years of investigation involving a range of law enforcement partners in the UK, Europe and Middle East,&#8221; Nikki Holland, Director of Investigations at the UK&#8217;s National Crime Agency, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCA said it had targeted Moogan and his associates over suspicions they were involved in plans to import drugs from Latin America to the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its investigators linked Moogan and two other British men to Rotterdam&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 de Ketel, which was not open to the public and could only be entered via a security system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of the raid, only one of the men, Robert Hamilton, a 71-year-old from Manchester, could be found, it said. He was jailed for eight years in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The other man, Robert Gerard, 57, from Liverpool, handed himself in to the NCA after three years on the run, claiming the pressure was too much,&#8221; the NCA said, adding he was sentenced to 14 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely grateful to those partners for their assistance in ensuring Moogan now faces justice,&#8221; Holland said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He will be returned to the United Kingdom to face trial.&#8221; &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; One of Britain&#8217;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. Michael Paul Moogan, from Liverpool, had been on the run for eight years since a raid on a Rotterdam cafe suspected of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":122105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}