Mickey Green
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Mickey Green (born 1942) is an English criminal, who has also held Irish nationality.
Greene is formerly the leader of the "Wembley Mob" specializing in armed robbery and is wanted in over four countries and is a main suspect in the gangland slayings of Gilbert Wynter and Solly Nahome.
During the early 1980s, he become involved in drug trafficking shortly after his release from prison, whose London-based operations are worth an estimated £30 million [1]. He also had a number of detectives on his payroll and became associates with the Adams Brothers.
Although owning pubs and other property in Wembley, West Hampstead, Dublin and Marbella, he has been evading authorities for more then twenty years operating in countries including Morrocco, France and the United States where he cooperated with organized crime figures running cocaine in from Columbia until his arrest by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation while residing in a Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by musician Rod Stewart.
Green was accused of working with organized crime figures with running cocaine into the United States from Columbia, he was later released by the US government.
In 1998, following the arrest of rival British drug trafficker Michael Michael during Operation Draft, Green was one of sixty others implicated in a £150 million cocaine trafficking ring [2] and would later be arrested by police at the Ritz hotel in Barcelona, Spain. Althoough held in custody for several months, he was again released and returned to his villa on the southern coast of Spain.
As of 2002, he is wanted by authorities in Ireland who is charged with jury tampering at a prior inquest and, while his assets were seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, his drug running operations are said to be worth an estimated £60 million [3].
