An alleged arms trafficker who has been on the run for close to two decades for arms smuggling and fraud was arrested by authorities in Spain on May 4 on an Argentine warrant with Interpol. The French-born Jean-Bernard Lasnaud was wanted in Argentina, where he is accused of arms smuggling and fraud in operations between 1992 and 1995 to sell weapons to Croatia and Ecuador. He is regarded as one of the world’s most infamous arms dealers.
According to a May 7 indictment obtained by The Epoch Times, filed in Buenos Aires’ Economic Criminal Court 3, Lasnaud was arrested on a detention order that had been in force since July 17, 2003.
