Frenchman Alain Castany (in white), leaves the prison in Santo Domingo, on June 8, 2017 © Erika Santelices / AFP 

A Frenchman serving 20 years in jail over the ‘Air Cocaine’ plot to smuggle a planeload of drugs out of the Dominican Republic has flown home to France to undergo surgery to save his leg from amputation after being hit by a motorcycle while on bail. 

Alain Castany was one of four co-conspirators arrested at an airport in the Dominican Republic city of Punta Cana on March 19, 2013, in a plot that implicated members of France’s upper political echelons.

Dubbed ‘Air Cocaine,’ Castany and his accessories loaded a small jet with 700kg (1,500lbs) of the drug, but were apprehended shortly before takeoff, reports the Local.

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