Spanish police have arrested in the city of Barcelona a man wanted by the Argentine authorities for suspected drug trafficking. Police sources said the man wanted in Argentina belonged to an organization dismantled at the end of last year when it tried to smuggle around a ton of cocaine into Spain. The Algerian-born French citizen who is under arrest was a kingpin of the organization that fronted as a company that imported protective coverings for the grass in stadiums. The case goes back to February 2007, when the Argentine judiciary began to investigate the international organization made up mainly of Bolivian and Argentine citizens living in Spain. Argentine police were able to take 13 of the suspected members of the organization into custody last December following a concert at Boca Juniors soccer stadium en Buenos Aires after finding narcotics in the base of the scaffolding and in the plastic sheeting, just as the material was about to be shipped to Spain.
Alerted by Interpol, the Spanish police learned that the fugitive was living in Barcelona, where he was finally arrested.