TAMMY
BRUCE, DEPARTMENT
SPOKESPERSON
MAY 21,
2025
Today, the U.S. Department of State’s
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Affairs is announcing a reward offer under the Transnational
Organized Crime Rewards Program (TOCRP) of up to $2 million
for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction, in
any country, of Uruguayan narcotics trafficker and money
launderer Sebastian Marset.
Concurrently, the
Department of Justice announced today the unsealing of an
indictment charging Marset with money laundering charges,
stemming from the movement of drug proceeds through U.S.
financial institutions. Marset is also a wanted fugitive
throughout the Southern Cone of South America, charged with
organized crime violations in Paraguay and Bolivia. In
August 2023, Bolivian authorities announced a separate
$100,000 reward offer for Marset’s arrest.
The TOCRP
reward offer follows the largest and most consequential
organized crime investigation (Operation A Ultranza Py)
against cocaine trafficking in Paraguayan history. This
investigation linked a criminal network led by Marset to
more than 16 tons of cocaine seized in Europe, including an
11-ton seizure at the port of Antwerp in April 2021 and
another 4.7-ton seizure of cocaine in Paraguay. The
investigation was conducted in coordination with
Paraguay’s Special Investigative Unit and Anti-Drug
Secretariat (SIU-SENAD), the Uruguayan Interior Ministry,
Europol, and the DEA Asuncion Country Office.
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If you
have information, please contact the DEA by email at MarsetTips@dea.gov.
If you are in the United States, you may also contact the
local DEA office in your city. The United States is also
soliciting anyone with direct knowledge of Marset’s drug
trafficking, money laundering, and acts of violence (actual
or threatened) to contact the tipline.
Today’s
reward offer is authorized by the Secretary under the TOCRP,
which supports law enforcement efforts to disrupt
transnational crime globally and bring fugitives to
justice.
ALL IDENTITIES ARE KEPT STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL. Government officials and employees are not
eligible for
rewards.
