The United Statesdesignated a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina who has beendetained last year in Dubai as the alleged leader of a drug cartel and one of the key players in the global cocaine trade.

Law enforcement agencies across Europe, in cooperation with their colleagues in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said Monday that they had dismantled a ‘super cartel’, which controlled around one third of the cocaine trade in Europe.

Dutch police arrested a native Bosnian and his Dutch wife last week for laundering money, which investigators suspect is coming from his gang’s massive cocaine transfers from Latin America to Europe.