More details have emerged about the wealth of suspected British drugs baron Brian Charrington, who has been arrested at his Spanish villa.
Charrington, from Middlesbrough, was one of 13 alleged drug traffickers detained in a joint operation - seven in Spain and six in Venezuela.
The suspects also included one of Charrington's sons and his girlfriend, who was among those held in South America.
Charrington, 57, was detained at his home in Alicante - one of 10 he is said to own in Spain.
Spanish police said he also has a string of expensive boats and cars.
They described Charrington as "a longtime British criminal who is one of the top 10 most investigated criminals by European police forces".
It added Andrew Moran, a Briton wanted on charges of aggravated robbery, was arrested in May while relaxing by the pool at one of Charrington's properties.
Andrew Moran was staying at one of Charrington's villas Police say they found 220kg (485lbs) of cocaine and seized assets worth around five million euros (£4.33m) in the operation, which involved Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).
It is claimed Charrington headed a gang that brought cocaine in luxury boats from South America to Spain for distribution in Europe.
The arrests follow a three-year investigation conducted by authorities in Spain, the UK and South America with the support of Ameripol, an international police agency that includes Caribbean states.
Venezuela's justice minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said the gang was thought to have smuggled "more or less" 25 tons of cocaine to Europe from South America over the last decade.
"We'll continue investigating and identifying the assets that these people have registered in different parts of the country," he told Venezuela's state television.
Charrington is the third suspected British drugs trafficker to be arrested in recent weeks.
On July 10 Kevin Hanley, who was wanted in connection with a multimillion-pound drug seizure, was caught in a sting operation in Athens.
Two days before convicted drug trafficker Mark Lilley was caught hiding in a panic room in his luxury villa in Malaga.
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