European cop named as gangland boss of "The African Route"

An argument in a hotel in West Africa brought a noise complaint — what police found set dominos falling around the world, unmasking the alleged boss of the lucrative underworld passage called the African Route. And he's an ex-cop from Spain.

The Mob Reporter here with news of arrests and raids in Africa exposing an important gangland network that linked South America to Europe. The alleged boss has been identified as Miguel Ángel Devesa Mera, a Spaniard from Vigo, in Galicia, a coastal region of Spain’s northwest. Devesa is a former cop, an officer with the Policia Nacional, one of Spain’s two federal police agencies. His past, or more properly his alleged past, sounds like a movie plot, an international action thriller of a renegade cop being bounced from the force and moving to Africa where he uses his skills to a new career as a crime lord. Some of the tales are wild, including a burnt-out Boeing 727 jetliner discovered in the Saharan desert.

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