Gilles Tepie, wanted by Interpol, was arrested by the Venezuelan army, in collaboration with the French authorities. Already sentenced to 18 and 16 years in prison by France and Venezuela, the reasons for his freedom are not yet clear.
He was one of the central figures in drug trafficking dismantled in 2010 during the seizure in Neuilly-sur-Seine of 111 kg of cocaine, imported from Venezuela. The investigation into Yannick Dacheville was at the origin of the scandal surrounding the former Lyon anti-gang commissioner Michel Neyret.