Alleged Ecstasy Dealer Extradited From Spain
An Israeli citizen said to have been the world’s most active Ecstasy dealer was extradited from Spain and charged in a U.S. court with recruiting female nightclub strippers as couriers and laundering millions of dollars in cash.
Oded Tuito was designated a drug kingpin by the U.S. government a year ago. He pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court to charges of supervising the trafficking of millions of Ecstasy pills to New York from Europe.
Prosecutors accused Tuito, 41, who lived in California before his arrest in 2001, of operating a trafficking scheme since 1997.
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