Court frees drug money

The Luxembourg Supreme Court turned down an appeal to stop dollars 36m (pounds 24m) of cocaine money from being paid back to the former wife of a Colombian drug lord, AFP reports from Luxembourg.

The little-noticed ruling was made on 21 October, but the money had not yet been returned to the drug-dealers because it was being blocked in Europe by US legal authorities. Lawyers for Amparo Londono, former wife of the Cali cartel godfather Jose Londono Santacruz, applied for the money to be released.