Bolivia’s former top anti-drug official to be extradited to US for drug trafficking

Maximiliano Davila Perez, arrested in Bolivia in 2022, was accused of using his position to help transport cocaine

Bolivia's highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition of the country's former top anti-narcotics official to the US to face charges of trafficking narcotics.

Maximiliano Davila Perez briefly served as Bolivia's top counter-narcotics official in 2019, before then president Evo Morales resigned. He later served as a police commander in Bolivia under the government of the current president, Luis Arce.