The Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was the leader of the violent Medellín cartel, and during the 1980s and 1990s he controlled a large part of the cocaine trade.
Today his brother owns Roberto Escobar a company called Escobar Inc, whose business consists of managing the drug kingpin’s brand. Since 2014 is Swedish Olof K Gustafsson from Ekerö, CEO of the company.
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Olof K Gustafsson detained in Spain
On December 4, Olof K Gustafsson was arrested in Spain, after a crackdown on the Swede’s home in Marbella, writes SvD. The Swedish Foreign Ministry has confirmed that a man in his 30s was detained in Spain at the beginning of December, to the newspaper.
For six hours, the police went through the house and seized money, watches, computers and telephones.
– They kicked in the door, took me and Olof and laid us on the floor. He was handcuffed. Our daughter was with us, says the wife Svetlana Gustafsson to the newspaper.
He is suspected of smuggling, serious money laundering, document forgery and fraud, and of being part of a criminal organization that conducts illegal art trade.
The court in French Bourg-en-Bresse is also part of the Spanish authorities’ investigation, since Olof K Gustafsson got caught in customs in France in 2020, when he was traveling in a car with three paintings by Picasso.
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The Escobar CEO may be extradited to the United States
During the crackdown, the US IRS was also involved, as the Escobar CEO is accused of defrauding hundreds of people on mobile phones.
Now the Escobar CEO has been in custody for over two weeks, and according to SvD, the US wants Olof K Gustafsson extradited.
– According to us, it is completely unreasonable that he should be extradited to the United States. He is a Swedish citizen and lives in Spain. Furthermore, this is a civil law issue, not a criminal one, says Olof K Gustafsson’s lawyer Federico Moglia to SvD.
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