Drugs baron Curtis Warren 'failed to disclose he had travelled to Spain'

23 November 2023 , 18:42

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Gangster Curtis Warren was once the most wanted man in Europe (Image: PA)

Drugs baron Curtis “Cocky” Warren is accused of breaching a serious crime prevention order by failing to reveal details of a trip to Spain.

Warren, 60, of Liverpool, is due to appear in court next month charged with breaking the terms of the restrictions on 11 separate occasions.

The first offence is said to have occurred within hours of him being freed from maximum security Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire last November when he allegedly applied for a passport without notifying the authorities. Warren has previously had links to Spain and has previously offended abroad. He was arrested in Jersey in 2009, just five weeks after being released from a 10-year jail sentence in the Netherlands for conspiring to import £100m of drugs, and the manslaughter of a fellow inmate.

Warren is accused of breaching a serious crime prevention order

Warren was given an extra 10 years after failing to abide by a £198 million confiscation order. Charges released this week reveal he is accused of travelling abroad during a four day period in May.

He was released on November 21 last year and is accused of applying for a passport between November 22 and the end of January this year. The full charges also reveal Warren is accused of failing to notify the National Crime Agency he had set up a company or reveal the “true nature of his business”.

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He is further accused of failing to reveal he had more than £1,000; had access to a number of vehicles; had moved out of his registered address; had used credit cards and had changed his phone.

Warren was arrested by the NCA in South Tyneside in July in the home of a prison officer jailed for having an affair with him while he was behind bars.

He was born in Toxteth in 1963 and went on to become an international drug trafficker worth tens of millions. Warren was believed to have drug contacts in countries including Iran, Morocco, South and Central America, Ghana, Thailand and Australia.

He moved to the Netherlands in the 1990s and was jailed there after police raided his villa and found a huge haul of drugs and weapons. Warren was convicted of manslaughter following a prison yard fight with a Turkish inmate. He is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates Court on 15 December.

Tom Pettifor