On April 20, the Spanish Police confirmed that the largest drug trafficking network on the Mediterranean coast of this country, led by Brian Colin Charrington, better known as Wikipedia’s narcobecause he liked to show off the success of his drug shipping operations on Internet portals.
The British man was captured in an operation carried out at different points in which the arrest of 30 more members of the criminal structure was also recorded. Charrington was intercepted when he was inside a luxurious home in Levante, where he received the agents pointing a shotgun at them..
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The arrest of the ‘invisible’ drug trafficker was possible because hours before the process, a sailboat he owned had been intercepted with more than a ton of cocaine that had left Suriname and was destined for the Port of Valencia.
But this is not the first time that Charrington has been captured for crimes linked to drug trafficking, since in 2013 he was arrested when he was wanted by the governments of Spain, France, England and Germany, in an operation in which the Colombian authorities were part, because the investigators affirm that the British man had in the South American country one of his main points of purchase for the drugs that he then sent to Europe.
After serving the sentences for drug trafficking that were imposed on him in 2013, Charrington’s whereabouts were unknown, until in 2018 the Provincial of Alicante issued a sentence of fifteen years and six months, which was reduced by the National Court of Spain to ten years and nine months, for the entry of 192 kilos of cocaine into Spain, which made the authorities turn their eyes again to the Englishman.
Compared to the nickname it receives from the authorities, this is because There are several profiles about him on the Internet, in which the drug shipments that have successfully entered Spain are described in multiple details, so the authorities suspect that Charrington himself would be in charge of providing this information on portals such as Wikipediain which users can update registered content.
Before his permanence in the criminal world was discovered, Charrington remained on provisional release with the obligation to sign a weekly report in court and the impossibility of leaving Spain, which also included direct members of his family.
It is worth mentioning that his son, Ray Charrington, and his partner, Isabellew Lydie, have been convicted of drug trafficking and money laundering crimes.
According to the information provided by the authorities in Spain, the operation against the criminal structure began in 2022 after the leaders of the organization were identified; After this, they intercepted the communications of the accused and discovered the presence of a boat that had been purchased for one euro.
In the same way, details of drug shipments that were made on a sailboat in the Canary Islands were known, Charrington being designated as the main leader of the organization. This information reached the ears of the authorities after several people from his closest circle were intercepted as part of the planning of drug shipments and transfers..
In addition to the capture, multiple assets were also seized from Charrington, including three boats valued at more than four million euros, 44 vehicles, 40 luxury watches, 60 works of art, 54 telephones, a cryptocurrency wallet and three weapons.
Within the general report of the criminal organization it was announced that more than 40 properties were intervened and 74 bank accounts were blocked with which transactions for the purchase and sale of drugs would be carried out with lower-ranking sellers.
About his entry into the criminal world, It is stated that in 1991, together with one of his partners, ‘The drug trafficker from Wikipedia’ traveled to Venezuela to make some agreements with Colombian drug traffickers regarding the shipment of cocaine in steel boxes and lead ingots..
