The 56-year old billionaire Tse Chi Lop, one of the world's most-wanted fugitives, was captured at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, on Saturday, according to the police.

Tse was often compared to drug lords like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman or Pablo Escoba. Investigators have accused Tse's syndicate of dominating the $70 billion (€57 billion) -a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.

Law enforcement believes it to be funneling tons of methamphetamine, heroin, and ketamine to at least a dozen countries from Japan to New Zealand. But methamphetamine is its main business, as per the reports from police.

He was arrested after a request from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) without incident during transit on a flight from Taiwan to Canada.

The cartel is suspected of often concealing its drugs in packets of tea. Police intelligence estimate that Tse's cartel is responsible for up to 70% of all narcotics entering Australia.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) approximately estimates the syndicate's methamphetamine revenue in 2018 at $8 billion a year but says it could be as high as $17.7 billion.

"The word kingpin often gets thrown around, but there is no doubt it applies here,” quoted Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2019.