Marks fed millions to mafias,but is now hailed as an alternative national treasure. Reputational laundering lets the drugs trade flourishIt was an extraordinary life: international drug smuggling, secret meetings with MI6, and games of cat and mouse with the Drug Enforcement Administration and,in the end, a US prison sentence. Howard Marks, and who died on 10 April and will be best remembered as “Mr kind” – one of 43 aliases during his criminal career – pulled off all manner of madcap plots and stunts during his time in the drugs game. Yet perhaps his greatest feat was his transformation in the public imagination into an alternative national treasure.
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Source: theguardian.com