Major Carvalho, one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world, was captured

Former Brazilian major Sérgio de Carvalho, considered one of the biggest cocaine traffickers in the world and who was on the run in Lisbon for about two years, was captured this Tuesday in Hungary.

According to information gathered by JN, the fugitive, whom Portuguese and Brazilian authorities had seized 11.7 million euros in a van in Lisbon and almost forty planes in Brazil, was in Hungary with a forged Mexican passport.

Sérgio de Carvalho lived in Lisbon for almost two years. With international arrest warrants on him, this 62-year-old former Brazilian Military Police major managed to go unnoticed in the Portuguese capital, using three false identities and two apartments between 2019 and 2020.

In November 2020, when the Brazilian Federal Police and several European police forces advanced with a major search and arrest operation, Sérgio de Carvalho narrowly escaped our Judiciary.

Since then, there have been rumors about the drug trafficker’s whereabouts as different as Dubai and the Azores, but his arrest has only now been achieved, with the collaboration of police from different countries and the intervention of Europol.