A drug trafficker who previously lived in a £2 million house in Woodford Green has been tracked down after almost a decade on the run. 

Hoosain Faweez Mungur, 62, was living in the luxury Woodford Green property when he was first arrested on May 10, 2013. 

The arrest came after Border Force officers found four kilos of cocaine concealed inside a spare tyre as he got off a ferry at Harwich. 

After he was questioned Mungur was bailed pending further enquiries but the following year he disappeared after initially telling officers he was returning to France for medical treatment. 

Two years later, in November 2016, a lorry bound for the UK which was searched at the Calais border was found to contain 45 kilos of cocaine and 25 kilos of heroin, hidden within a pallet containing boxes of hair extensions. 

The National Crime Agency (NCA) established that Mungur had been the organiser for the shipment and several others in previous months. 

The drugs were sent to contacts in the UK and Mungur received payments into bank accounts belonging to his front companies. 

Two of his co-conspirators were jailed for four-and-a-half years each in 2019 but Mungur remained on the run. 

Eventually he was tracked to Madrid Airport in Spain in June last year. 

He was arrested as he tried to board a flight to the Dominican Republic. 

Mungur was then extradited to the UK and on Thursday (June 20) he was found guilty of three counts of importing class A drugs and one count of money laundering. 

On Friday (June 21) he was jailed for 19 years. 

Hoosain Faweez MungurHoosain Faweez Mungur (Image: NCA) NCA branch commander Mark Howes said: "Mungur was a career drug trafficker with convictions in France and Germany before he came to the UK. 

"Following his initial arrest he fled the country, and continued his criminal activity from overseas. 

"After spending so long at large he may have thought he was safe living abroad, but the NCA worked with international partners to have him returned to the UK to face justice. 

"This case demonstrates the NCA's determination to do all we can to track down and put before the courts those involved in serious organised crime."