Police in South Africa have arrested a British fugitive drugs dealer and convicted fraudster who has been on the run for three years, police announced Sunday. Martin Evans, 52, from Swansea in Wales, was captured Saturday in Johannesburg. He will appear in a Pretoria court on Monday for a procedural extradition hearing, police spokesman Solomon Makgale said in a statement.
South African police's National Crime Intelligence Unit and Interpol officers on Saturday night "arrested one of the United Kingdom's most wanted fugitives," said Makgale.
A once-successful businessman, Evans was serving a 21-year jail term for drugs smuggling when in 2011 he failed to return to prison after release on a five-day leave.
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