Fugitive UK Drug Dealer Found In South Africa

One of the UK's most wanted men has been captured in South Africa, Sky News has learned.

Drug trafficker Martin Evans, 52, a former Welsh businessman of the year, went on the run from prison in August 2011 after a home visit.

He had been serving 21 years for drug smuggling and fraud when he was released on a temporary licence to an address in Swansea.

Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt said detectives swooped on Evans in Johannesburg and described his capture as "a real scalp". 

"There's a lot waiting for him when he gets back," Brunt said.

Evans, from Pontardulais, was once an award winning businessman running a successful double glazing firm in Port Talbot.

But his business collapsed and Evans turned to fraud, cheating investors in a new ostrich farm business out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Much of the money was channelled into offshore accounts in Jersey and the Bahamas and Evans was known to have a £2m villa in Marbella.

He also had properties in Miami and Florida.

Shortly before his trial for fraud, Evans went on the run for the first time, first to Spain and then to Holland.

The National Crime Agency said it was there that he masterminded a multimillion-pound drugs and money laundering operation, supplying cocaine and MDMA between 1999 and 2001.

He was caught when he tried to use a false passport to enter the US in November 2001 and was jailed for 21 years back in the UK.

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