Brian Brendan Wright

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Brian Brendan Wright (born c. 1947) is an Irish criminal, who was raised in Kilburn, London, involved in race-fixing by doping more than 20 race horses in 1990, and trafficking tonnes of cocaine from the Medellín Cartel into Great Britain over a period of two years, amassing up to a £600 million fortune. Originally based in Britain, Wright had been out of the country when authorities began arresting members of his organisation (including his own son, Brian Jr, and former son-in-law, Paul Shannon) as the result of a six-year investigation following the capture of a converted fishing trawler, the Sea Mist, after Irish customs officials discovered 599 kg of cocaine while docked at Cork, Ireland in September 1996. After relocating to northern Cyprus, he purchased a £300,000 villa near Lapithos in the name of a Turkish Cypriot friend and, by 1998, his organization operated freely as the northern Cyprus government is recognized only by Turkey and thus has no extradition treaties with any other...

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