ONE of Britain’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested by Spanish police – just hours after the launch of a new criminal hunting operation.

Simon Dutton, 49, was on the run facing a re-call to prison – having previously been convicted of drug offences and money laundering.

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The arrest is understood to have happened in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Local cops only went public with it later in the day after the National Crime Agency unveiled the latest Operation Captura wanted list in Alicante.

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