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| Fugitive ostrich farm fraudster Martin Evans held in South Africa | Fugitive ostrich farm fraudster Martin Evans held in South Africa |
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| Fugitive conman, drug dealer and money launderer Martin Evans has been arrested in South Africa after three years on the run. | Fugitive conman, drug dealer and money launderer Martin Evans has been arrested in South Africa after three years on the run. |
| The National Crime Agency has confirmed that Evans, 52, from Swansea, who was jailed for 21 years in 2006, was held on Saturday. | |
| His scams included swindling 87 investors of £900,000 in an ostrich farm fraud in south Wales. | His scams included swindling 87 investors of £900,000 in an ostrich farm fraud in south Wales. |
| Evans was one of the UK's most wanted fugitives. | Evans was one of the UK's most wanted fugitives. |
| Police named him as one of the UK's "most wanted" in 2012 and said they suspected he was living a life of luxury, probably on Cyprus. | |
| An NCA spokesman the work to find him, Operation Zygos, had led them to South Africa. | |
| He said: "We knew he had moved to South Africa. We were tracking him down." | |
| Evans disappeared in August 2011 after failing to return from a weekend release from prison in Wiltshire. |