Real Madrid stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho were on Sunday night stunned when a neighbour was held by police on suspicion of being one of the world’s biggest drug barons.
Mexican Nicolas Rivera Gamez, 49, was arrested at his mansion in a prestigious part of Madrid for allegedly trafficking £175million of cocaine.
Rivera, who has a fleet of 20 supercars including Bentleys, Rolls Royces, Maseratis and Ferraris, lives just a stone's throw from Ronaldo and Mourinho in the Spanish capital.
Investigators say he was the boss of a gang trafficking millions of pounds worth of cocaine into Europe from South America.
Investigators believe big-spending Rivera, whose house is on the exclusive La Finca estate, blew an average of £10,000 a day in cash.
They reportedly found more than a million pounds in cash in a suitcase in the boot of one of his cars.
Former Manchester United star Ronaldo, 25, owns a £4.3million, seven-bedroom villa in La Finca, while ex-Chelsea boss Mourinho, 47, rents a £17,000-a-month three-story villa down the road.
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