Dutch detectives unravel 3.6 million encrypted emails sent by criminals CrimeTech & Media March 9, 2017
Dutch detectives have gained access to 3.6 million encrypted emails sent by criminal gangs which will be used in dozens of prosecutions, the public prosecution department said on Thursday. The information in the mails will provide evidence for criminal cases, including murder, armed robbery, drugs, money laundering and other forms of organised crime, the department said in a statement.
The messages were found on servers in Canada belonging to a Dutch company called Ennetcom. Last year, the public prosecution department won the right to have the Ennetcom servers copied and the seven terabytes of information sent to the Netherlands for investigation. Ennetcom was the ‘biggest provider of encrypted communications in the Netherlands’, the department said. The company also has sales points in South America and other countries in western Europe. The owner of Ennetcom was arrested last April when the network was shut down as part of the investigation.
He has since been released from jail but is facing prosecution. The major police investigation into Ennetcom stems from other investigations into the recent spate of gangland killings in the Netherlands. Detectives found that many of those involved had encrypted Ennetcom telephones in their possession.
Have you read the book 'De achterkant van Nederland' yet H.?
That was the book I told you about a couple of weeks ago. I finished it recently and thought it was pretty spot on. The mayors from the big cities in the south, are referring to the book and asking The Hague for 50 million euro to combat the power of the emerging drug syndicates.
Have you read the book 'De achterkant van Nederland' yet H.?
That was the book I told you about a couple of weeks ago. I finished it recently and thought it was pretty spot on. The mayors from the big cities in the south, are referring to the book and asking The Hague for 50 million euro to combat the power of the emerging drug syndicates.
Not yet, probably after I finished Haagse Penoze. Gangs go way back in your backyard! Remember Koos Reuvers? He was mentioned in this article. http://www.bndestem.nl/brabant/brabantse-bandieten-spelen-al-decennia-champions-league~ae619b5e/
Have you read the book 'De achterkant van Nederland' yet H.?
That was the book I told you about a couple of weeks ago. I finished it recently and thought it was pretty spot on. The mayors from the big cities in the south, are referring to the book and asking The Hague for 50 million euro to combat the power of the emerging drug syndicates.
Not yet, probably after I finished Haagse Penoze. Gangs go way back in your backyard! Remember Koos Reuvers? He was mentioned in this article. http://www.bndestem.nl/brabant/brabantse-bandieten-spelen-al-decennia-champions-league~ae619b5e/
Of course, my new neighbor is by chance from Oss and told me some stories about the Reveurs brothers, they are pretty feared over there. They killed that guy on the highway with machineguns. The poor guy's emergency phone call to 112 is on the site of Omroep Brabant. And if you look at these guys you wouldn't say they're heavy criminals. Just look at Toon in this interview:
WOMAN TARGETED IN TWO SHOOTINGS HELD FOR KIDNAPPING, EXTORTION By Janene Pieters on March 10, 2017 - 16:35
A 36-year-old woman targeted in two shootings in 2015 and 2016 is now in police custody herself. She was arrested late last month along with six other suspects on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping of a 53-year-old man in Nunspeet in December last year, Brabants Dagblad reports
According to the newspaper, the woman in question is Bianca van der H. from Oss. She was the girlfriend of weed dealer Hans van Geenen, who was killed in a shootout on the A73 between Venlo and Nijmegen in 2008. Van der H. was also involved in the cannabis trade.
Van der H. was targeted in two attempted assassinations in Oss and Berghem in 2015 and 2016. The police also believe that she was the actual target of a shooting in Berghem, in which 28-year-old Mandy van der Sluys from Oss was shot in the head in the De Merx parking lot. She somehow survived without any lasting injury.
The woman is now in custody on suspicion of involvement in the kidnapping of Ronald Maurits from Doornspijk, not far from Nunspeet. His kidnapping in December was filmed by a local resident. The video shows how Maurits is forced out of his car and forced into a BMW with his hands tied behind his back before the BMW and a van drive off.
The van was later found empty at a carpool area in Nunspeet and teh BMW was found burnt out in Overlangel near Oss. The man himself was released in a secluded spot in Drunen. He made his way back home, arriving some 12 hours after being abducted. The motive for his kidnapping hasn't been revealed.
According to the newspaper, Maurits is a financial broker who has contact with people fro the underworld. For example, he did business with businessman Jan Jaap de B., who ws in the speedboats trade with Willem Endstra. The newspaper's sources claim that Maurits was targeted by a gang of extortionists from Brabant and Zuid-Holland.
Van der H. was remanded into custody until the first hearing in the kidnapping case, expected to take place in the summer. She is currently in restricted custody, only allowed contact with her lawyer.
Spanish police have broken up a large network that dealt with the cultivation and transport of marijuana. In total 27 people were arrested, of whom most have the Dutch nationality. They are suspected of crimes against public health, illegal possession of weapons and belonging to a criminal organization.
Have you read this article yet paisan? Talks about the 'Cerca Trova' investigation by the Justice Departement in collaboration with the FIOD about the Italian Mafia in The Netherlands. Especially the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra, who apparently have a significant presence in our country.
Have you read this article yet paisan? Talks about the 'Cerca Trova' investigation by the Justice Departement in collaboration with the FIOD about the Italian Mafia in The Netherlands. Especially the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra, who apparently have a significant presence in our country.
Notorious crime boss Henk Ebben (who was an associate of England's Adams crime family) was sentenced by the court in Rotterdam to 14 years in prison for bribery of customs officer Gerrit G. and involvement in several cocaine shipments of 400 and 220 kilos in the spring of 2015 in containers from Brazil. His son Marco was acquitted of bribery, but received six years. The other six defendants were given sentences between two and six years.
Notorious crime boss Henk Ebben (who was an associate of England's Adams crime family) was sentenced by the court in Rotterdam to 14 years in prison for bribery of customs officer Gerrit G. and involvement in several cocaine shipments of 400 and 220 kilos in the spring of 2015 in containers from Brazil. His son Marco was acquitted of bribery, but received six years. The other six defendants were given sentences between two and six years.
Probably related to those guys.
A fire believed caused by an explosion in the night from Saturday to Sunday destroyed the villa of drug criminal Johan V. of Etten-Leur. The police assumes that the fire was caused deliberately.
They got some tough guys in Holland why are they letting the shit with the terrorists go unpunished. Even there football players were tough Japp stam was an animal liked him from the first moment I saw him play an intimidating guy.
They got some tough guys in Holland why are they letting the shit with the terrorists go unpunished. Even there football players were tough Japp stam was an animal liked him from the first moment I saw him play an intimidating guy.
Haha..I'm aware you are into soccer. Stam and Davids were fighters.
They got some tough guys in Holland why are they letting the shit with the terrorists go unpunished. Even there football players were tough Japp stam was an animal liked him from the first moment I saw him play an intimidating guy.
Haha..I'm aware you are into soccer. Stam and Davids were fighters.
Davids was aggressive, but if he really was a good fighter I don't know.
There is the story of his time at Spurs in England when he challenged Robbie Keane to 'go outside' with him. Usually guys didn't dare to do that, like Mark van Bommel for instance, but Keane was an Irish amateur boxing champion as a youngster apparently, so Davids got KO'd out when they went 'outside' LOL
I saw Stam in a game against the US men's team. The US team was intimated by him it was funny. Davids was not a big guy height wise.
You know who was either a tough guy or just nuts. Jeff Agoss he would stand in the defensive wall without covering any part of his body.
I covered the jewels like all male adult players not Agoss.
Now when we coach kids in the wall they cover the jewels, but we also teach them to take the other arm and to touch their far shoulder with their hand. So they have their forearm and elbow to protect their nose and face. It looks like bela Lagos i when he played Dracula
I knew a guy that had a 1000 fights in the course of his real life. Why did he fight so much because he was really good at it. I heard once he had a fight with a guy who knew judo this was when no one knew that stuff. So he kept getting thrown around by the judo player. He finally got tired of being thrown around so he shot him in the chest and walked away.
Before criminal/blogger Martin Kok was shot dead last year there was another attempt the same evening, but the gun jammed. At 6:40 you can see it.
There must've been a lot of background noise, considering Martin and his 'friend' didn't hear those footsteps or the gun jamming.
Also the people on the bicycles didn't notice anything. Sign of the times I think, everybody is in his/her own bubble with their phones/I-pod/headphones.
FATHER, SON GUNNED DOWN IN BUSINESS PARK AMBUSH; SUSPECTS ESCAPE IN BLACK BMW By Janene Pieters on April 25, 2017 - 13:03 Crime scene (Photo: Politie)
Two men were killed in a shooting in the Zoeterhage industrial complex in Zoetermeer on Tuesday morning. The shooting happened around 11:00 a.m. in the parking lot of a gym located on Edisonstraat, AD reports.
Witnesses told the newspaper that they believe the victims to be father and son, a detail the police had not confirmed after the incident. The victims were found sitting in a black Mercedes parked at the gym. A witness reports a black BMW driving away after shots were heard. The BMW was spotted in the parking lot several times on Tuesday morning, according to the newspaper.
A burnt out BMW was found in nearby neighborhood Oosterheem. The police are investigating whether it is connected to the shooting.
Initial reports stated that the victims were seriously injured. Emergency services, including an air ambulance, rushed to the scene to give medical assistance. Around noon the police reported that both victims were dead.
Notorious crime boss Henk Ebben (who was an associate of England's Adams crime family) was sentenced by the court in Rotterdam to 14 years in prison for bribery of customs officer Gerrit G. and involvement in several cocaine shipments of 400 and 220 kilos in the spring of 2015 in containers from Brazil. His son Marco was acquitted of bribery, but received six years. The other six defendants were given sentences between two and six years.
The Criminal Investigation Team of the Rotterdam police received information that Ebben plans to murder a prosecutor in his case.
The police and judiciary are looking for Rotterdam druglord Cetin Gören. The Prosecutor believes he cut through his ankle monitor and went into hiding. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in December last year. Gören was the leader of a gang that smuggled a total of 16 thousand kilograms of cocaine from South America to Europe. Before his arrest he was on Interpol's most wanted list.
Have you read this article yet paisan? Talks about the 'Cerca Trova' investigation by the Justice Departement in collaboration with the FIOD about the Italian Mafia in The Netherlands. Especially the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra, who apparently have a significant presence in our country.
Last Saturday police in Aalsmeer arrested an Italian who was apparently hiding in the Netherlands. The Sicilian Calogero Nicosia (48) was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in Ravenna for international cocaine trade. He was arrested by chance. Agents checked an older vehicle in the systems. This proved to be the name of the internationally identified Nicosia.
Johan van Boxtel was found shot dead Sunday morning next to a car in the Memlincstraat in Eindhoven. In December, he was sentenced by the court in Den Bosch for an attempted arson at a tanning salon in Oss. The tanning salon chain was several times the target of attacks. Because the convicted man had no motive, it is suspected that he was acting on behalf of a notorious crime family in Oss.
Against the 46-year-old Zekeriya Kocaman the prosecution demanded 20 years in prison. Kocaman, who is in a wheelchair after an attempt on his life, is suspected of organizing three - although unsuccessful - assassinations, illegal possession of weapons and drugs. The 'tough' mobster is also the leader of the Turkish mafia in the Netherlands.
I was very often in Southern Netherlands and Amsterdam around 2010-2012. Got to know lots of turks over there. They were ALL in the drug game and most had tons of money and drugs. Us germans being very consiprative, cause we have strict laws were so surprised how openly these guys disscused buying +20 Kilos of weed on their cellphones. Ofc they were more cautious with harder stuff. Lots of business going on there and they have soft laws. I personally know a few guys who became Millionaires with just growing weed. Well I'd go all in too if I get busted with 10Kilos and can go home after an hour and just have to pay a fine.
I was very often in Southern Netherlands and Amsterdam around 2010-2012. Got to know lots of turks over there. They were ALL in the drug game and most had tons of money and drugs. Us germans being very consiprative, cause we have strict laws were so surprised how openly these guys disscused buying +20 Kilos of weed on their cellphones. Ofc they were more cautious with harder stuff. Lots of business going on there and they have soft laws. I personally know a few guys who became Millionaires with just growing weed. Well I'd go all in too if I get busted with 10Kilos and can go home after an hour and just have to pay a fine.
Well said, Holland is a narco state. Most of the younger generation criminals are also influenced by the gangstarap from the US.
I was very often in Southern Netherlands and Amsterdam around 2010-2012. Got to know lots of turks over there. They were ALL in the drug game and most had tons of money and drugs. Us germans being very consiprative, cause we have strict laws were so surprised how openly these guys disscused buying +20 Kilos of weed on their cellphones. Ofc they were more cautious with harder stuff. Lots of business going on there and they have soft laws. I personally know a few guys who became Millionaires with just growing weed. Well I'd go all in too if I get busted with 10Kilos and can go home after an hour and just have to pay a fine.
Well said, Holland is a narco state. Most of the younger generation criminals are also influenced by the gangstarap from the US.
The rewards outweigh the risks greatly for drug dealers in Holland that's for sure, but calling it a narco state goes a bit far imo. They haven't infiltrated high levels of politics or business YET. The big guys are trying their hardest to accomplish it though, but the government is very wary of such a thing happening even at the local level. It will be very difficult for them to stop it completely because the amount of money that is involved is ridiculous.
The rewards outweigh the risks greatly for drug dealers in Holland that's for sure, but calling it a narco state goes a bit far imo. They haven't infiltrated high levels of politics or business YET. The big guys are trying their hardest to accomplish it though, but the government is very wary of such a thing happening even at the local level. It will be very difficult for them to stop it completely because the amount of money that is involved is ridiculous.
Maybe they haven't infiltrated national politics on a large scale like the narco-state Surinam for example, but you also have to look where they invest their money and how they use major banks here.
I hear ya H. and it's definitely getting out of hand.
The authors of that book 'De Achterkant van Nederland' give warnings about this great danger, the infiltration of the underworld in legitimate and political sectors of society. They say we're gonna have southern Italian situations in 10 years if the government doesn't fight this properly. They call it 'ondermijning' in their lingo.
Narco State is far overexagerated. But as said before soft laws,mostly very liberal people and politics in general, coffeeshop polticis which are semi legal, biggest harbour in europe and then tons of immigrants who are for various reasons not so close with our believe system and into the western way of life of going to school and work for the rest of your life in a slave like job, are reasons for the special situation in holland. I personally dont see an issue there. People are not more violent then in other countries and I know that even rich businessmen had problems with influencing local politics casue people are not really corrupt over there. By the way are the Netherland a very attractive country for businessmen from all over eurpoe cause of their tax system which makes it possible to evade taxes in other countries...big time, but legally.
I think the biggest reason for this strong drug game in holland are the offeeshops and weed growing. Everyone can do it and earn quite good money. I know a guy who had his whole house turned into a grow op. One day police raided it and seized everything. He wasnt there, so they just pinned a note to his door that hes supposed to come to the station to talk to them. He did go and just signed some papers and drank a coffee. In the end he had to pay a few thousand euros. But he made hundreds of thousands with growing and selling and this guy was not even big or kinda clever. If i, d done that 100 miles east across the border of germamy I,d have gone to jail immediately for +4 years.
Since i wasnt there the last years i have some questions? Are the the police and courts still so soft on them? And do they raid grow ops still regularly or do they leave them alone?
They are very tough these days on cases where underworld figures want to infiltrate legitimate industry and politics. They don't really care if they stay on the fringes of society and make money by selling/importing drugs, but what they absolutely want to prevent is that organized crime evolves to the levels as the LCN in the US pre-1990's or certain regions in Sicily/Naples/Calabria, where they control certain economic/political sectors of society.
When it comes to weed and ecstasy Holland is a major producer, we are lucky we don't see high levels of violence, because narco groups can do whatever they want here no reason to fuck that up. But if there is a major bust or seizure they will def kill weak links.
When it comes to weed and ecstasy Holland is a major producer, we are lucky we don't see high levels of violence, because narco groups can do whatever they want here no reason to fuck that up. But if there is a major bust or seizure they will def kill weak links.
I hear ya H. and it's definitely getting out of hand.
The authors of that book 'De Achterkant van Nederland' give warnings about this great danger, the infiltration of the underworld in legitimate and political sectors of society. They say we're gonna have southern Italian situations in 10 years if the government doesn't fight this properly. They call it 'ondermijning' in their lingo.
I agree with them, this and the fact the world has changed. The drug market in Europe is worth 24 billion euros per year most of these drugs are produced in Holland or pass through it.
I think the biggest reason for this strong drug game in holland are the offeeshops and weed growing.
The coffeeshops play a big role in the image of Holland just like legalized prostitution, but I'm proud of that. It's not perfect, but if you regulate this stuff the circumstances for the people involved are better. Dutch have always been farmers and traders, so it makes sense some of them turn to weed and ecstasy production.
Christy Kinahan had a relationship with a Dutch woman.
I'm not sure if his links to Holland go any further than that.
Yes, Christy Sr was an associate of 'The Thinker' Mink Kok since the early nineties. Mink's Lebanese brothers-in-law Koleilat Dalbi also did business with the Kinahan cartel. They are in prison in the US for trafficking cocaine. But they had a fall-out when Daniel tried to take over their drug connections in South America. Mink's bagman Frank Scharrenberg was murdered in Marbella in 2013.
Robert Vreeswijk was arrested in Medellin in February. The authorities see Robert as a member of a drug trafficking organization allegedly linked to the notorious Gulf Clan. There is evidence against him through wiretapped telephone conversations with the head of the Colombian cartel. The requirement is 8 years imprisonment. That means effectively at least two and a half years.
Two dutchmen have been shot dead in the Dominican Republic. According to authorities a liquidation in the underworld.Their identities are not yet known
Which Dutch OC groups are considered to be at the top right now ? I do know that the so called Mocro Mafia is pretty big at the moment , but are there any other ones as well ?
Which Dutch OC groups are considered to be at the top right now ? I do know that the so called Mocro Mafia is pretty big at the moment , but are there any other ones as well ?
I would say the 1%-ers. Satudarah, No Surrender and Hells Angels.
Photos of the excavated bodies of the two men, wearing only underwear, already appeared on the Internet.
Rachid is the brother of Mohamed Benbouker, whose body was found in December 2011 in the North Holland Canal. He was killed with two other drug offenders, Arjan Kools and Maurice Bouhuijs. During the trial it emerged that Benbouker had extorted and threatened two of the perpetrators. Growing up in Amsterdam-Osdorp Mohammed Benbouker had a remarkable motto: "I stand with one foot in prison, and one in the grave."
Which Dutch OC groups are considered to be at the top right now ? I do know that the so called Mocro Mafia is pretty big at the moment , but are there any other ones as well ?
I would say the 1%-ers. Satudarah, No Surrender and Hells Angels.
How dare you H.?!? These guys are just motorcycle enthusiasts, who all have honest 9-to-5 jobs and only come together in the weekends to ride and maybe drink a couple of beers..
Dino Soerel: Life for the murders of Kees Houtman + Thomas van der Bijl
Jesse Remmers: Life for the murders of Thomas van der Bijl (2006) en Kees Houtman (2005), Henie Shamel en Anne de Witte (1993), Djordje Ilic en Samir Hadziselimovic (1993), the murder attempt on Tony Vaz (2000).
Mohamed “Moppie” R.: Life. Accessary for the murder of Henie Shamel (1993), Tonnie van Mourik (1993), Djordje Ilic en Samir Hadziselimovic (1993), murder attempt on Tony Vaz (2000).
Siegfried S.: Life. Murder of Henie Shamel and murder in the second degree of Anne de Witte.
Sjaak B.: 6 years for possession of firearms.
Fred Ros: 14 years (Deal with government). Murder of Thomas van der Bijl + other charges.
Peter la Serpe: 8 years (Deal with the government). Murder of Kees Houtman + other charges. Remains free.
Freek S.: Acquittal.
Nan Paul de B.: 13,5 years. Murder of Tonnie van Mourik.
Dino Soerel: Life for the murders of Kees Houtman + Thomas van der Bijl
Jesse Remmers: Life for the murders of Thomas van der Bijl (2006) en Kees Houtman (2005), Henie Shamel en Anne de Witte (1993), Djordje Ilic en Samir Hadziselimovic (1993), the murder attempt on Tony Vaz (2000).
Mohamed “Moppie” R.: Life. Accessary for the murder of Henie Shamel (1993), Tonnie van Mourik (1993), Djordje Ilic en Samir Hadziselimovic (1993), murder attempt on Tony Vaz (2000).
Siegfried S.: Life. Murder of Henie Shamel and murder in the second degree of Anne de Witte.
Sjaak B.: 6 years for possession of firearms.
Fred Ros: 14 years (Deal with government). Murder of Thomas van der Bijl + other charges.
Peter la Serpe: 8 years (Deal with the government). Murder of Kees Houtman + other charges. Remains free.
Freek S.: Acquittal.
Nan Paul de B.: 13,5 years. Murder of Tonnie van Mourik.
Maybe "the commissaris" will now give up "the nose".
Dino Soerel: Life for the murders of Kees Houtman + Thomas van der Bijl
Jesse Remmers: Life for the murders of Thomas van der Bijl (2006) en Kees Houtman (2005), Henie Shamel en Anne de Witte (1993), Djordje Ilic en Samir Hadziselimovic (1993), the murder attempt on Tony Vaz (2000).
Mohamed “Moppie” R.: Life. Accessary for the murder of Henie Shamel (1993), Tonnie van Mourik (1993), Djordje Ilic en Samir Hadziselimovic (1993), murder attempt on Tony Vaz (2000).
Siegfried S.: Life. Murder of Henie Shamel and murder in the second degree of Anne de Witte.
Sjaak B.: 6 years for possession of firearms.
Fred Ros: 14 years (Deal with government). Murder of Thomas van der Bijl + other charges.
Peter la Serpe: 8 years (Deal with the government). Murder of Kees Houtman + other charges. Remains free.
Freek S.: Acquittal.
Nan Paul de B.: 13,5 years. Murder of Tonnie van Mourik.
Maybe "the commissaris" will now give up "the nose".
Do you think the government would be willing to make a deal with him to get Holleeder? Isn't the case they have now strong enough on its own?
Do you think the government would be willing to make a deal with him to get Holleeder? Isn't the case they have now strong enough on its own?
With this conviction of Dino and the Holleeder sisters it looks like a strong case at least for the murders of Thomas and Kees. But probably they also want to proof Endstra and the others than maybe Dino could be helpful.
Do you think the government would be willing to make a deal with him to get Holleeder? Isn't the case they have now strong enough on its own?
With this conviction of Dino and the Holleeder sisters it looks like a strong case at least for the murders of Thomas and Kees. But probably they also want to proof Endstra and the others than maybe Dino could be helpful.
Kinda reminds me of last Gotti case. That case was also very strong as it was but the government still wanted Gravano to really make it a Slam-Dunk case.
The most unique phenomenon to happen over there in the Dutch underworld: Crippin.
There are also Bloods in Rotterdam. Holland in general is very Americanized (a little too much if you ask me), probably the most out of all the European countries, except maybe the UK.
BTW Billy, Fred Ros was released the same day he's now probably heading to a sunny beach.
Yeah, I heard that today. Apparently he already served 2/3 of his sentence. Those verdicts yesterday are a definite game changer in the government's fight against organized crime.
BTW Billy, Fred Ros was released the same day he's now probably heading to a sunny beach.
Yeah, I heard that today. Apparently he already served 2/3 of his sentence. Those verdicts yesterday are a definite game changer in the government's fight against organized crime.
That's right we will see more and more people go into the WPP now.
Cocaine smuggling in various of the Netherlands' coastal areas is increasing considerably, according to the mayors of these areas. The problem is a "big and growing concern" and doesn't get enough priority. In the coastal areas fake companies are rapidly set up to facilitate drug trafficking. Once nested, it's hard to get rid of them. But also professional fishermen are being pressured by criminals. Traffickers increasingly opt for smaller ports, because they assume that security - and the chance of being caught - is less than in Rotterdam. In the last week of June, the Dutch and Belgian police seized two shipments, totaling in nearly 1,700 kilos of cocaine. Dutch persons were involved in both shipments.
The Amsterdam criminal Jaïr 'Jay' Wessels was shot dead on Friday in the parking at train station Breukelen. He was previously accused of an attempt to liquidate the criminal leader Etou's Belserang of motorcycleclub Satudarah.
On a banana plantation in Ecuador police found more than 2,600 kilos of cocaine. According to authorities, the drugs were en route to Europe, the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam as a destination.
Pieter Hoovers and his Thai wife were found murdered in an apartment on Ceintuurbaan in Amsterdam. Hoovers has been living in Thailand for years. He had underworld contacts and was a well known face in the music world and in martial arts.
SUSPECTS GET UP TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN DIEMEN By Janene Pieters on July 20, 2017 - 13:30
On Thursday the court in Amsterdam sentenced five men to up to 20 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Peter R. in Diemen in November 2015. Despite 34 shots being fired, R. managed to escape with his life, NU.nl reports.
Gunmen Qoi C. and Atif M. were both sentenced to 20 years in prison. Getaway driver Karim S. got 16 years. Genaro L. was sentenced to 12.5 years and Alejandro P. to 14 years in prison for following the victim and preparing the assassination. P. is still at large. The suspects also have to pay their victim almost 43 thousand euros in compensation.
The assassination attempt happen on November 5th, 2015 while R. was sitting in his car in a parking lot on Fregat in Diemen. The two gunmen opened fire on him with semi-automatic weapons. A total of 34 shots were fired. The court considered it a "miracle" that R. survived.
The police managed to track down the perpetrators quickly, because the getaway car they used was already being watched as part of another investigation. Four suspects were arrested on the same evening as the shooting. A fifth suspect was arrested in January 2016.
Investigators managed to break into phones found on the suspects. Based on messages, emailed and tapped conversations, a clear picture of how the assassination attempt was planned and executed was formed.
The Public Prosecutor believes that Naoufal F. is the one who ordered this assassination. He is being tried separately. The 35-year-old man was extradited to the Netherlands from Ireland in February.
The police in Amsterdam are currently investigating a shooting that took place just after midnight in Amsterdam North in front of the house of Jan Otten, owner of the famous sex theater Casa Rosso. According to the police, a man was hit in his leg.
Liquidation wave does not seem to stop: count now at 11. With the settlement last night in Rotterdam that cost a 41-year-old man from Barendrecht his life, the number of victims of liquidations is already at eleven this year. Despite many successes from the police. Since the beginning of 2014, it has really hit the underworld. Where previously, on average, six to eight liquidations were committed in the criminal circuit, the average at around 20 per year. As many as 65 victims have fallen over the last 3.5 years. A large part of the liquidations had a link with the so-called 'Mocro War' in Amsterdam. But that war has become so diffuse in networks and backgrounds of suspects that the term "mocro war" is completely out of date.
NO SURRENDER FOUNDER SUSPECTED OF ORDERING ATTACK ON PUBLIC PROSECUTOR By Janene Pieters on August 29, 2017 - 12:10
No Surrender founder Klaas Otto is suspected of ordering an attack on the Public Prosecutor working on his case from his cell in the Middelburg prison, Otto's lawyer Louis de Leon confirmed to NU.nl. According to the lawyer, his client finds these accusations completely ridiculous.
On Monday the police arrested a 44-year-old man in Sliedrecht. He is believed to be the one Otto ordered to commit the attack. The attack was directed at Greetje Bos, prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor's Office Zeeland-West-Brabant and the prosecutor on the case against Otto.
The police searched Otto's cell as well as two houses in Sliedrecht and Rotterdam. Computers, mobile phones and digital data carriers were seized. The investigation into the possible attack has been in progress for several weeks, according to the newspaper.
Otto is currently in custody awaiting his trial. He is accused of extortion, assault and arson, amongst other things. The former No Surrender boss also made the news last week, when it was revealed that he was in the possession of tapped conversations of other inmates. He requested the recordings of calls he made from prison to prepare for his trial. By mistake, the police also gave him the recordings of phone calls other prisoners made.
Several recent liquidations in the Turkish milieu in and around Rotterdam are the result of a robbery of hundreds of kilos of heroin and a large amount of cash. Among other things, the murders of the 50-year-old Mustafa Ates and Zeki Yumusak (41) would be related to the theft.
The biggest money maker for the dutch groups is still ecstasy.
Based on numbers from an exhaustive 10 year, 27,000 subject study between 2006-2014, it seems that The Netherlands holds rank as possessing the highest rates of MDMA found in its ecstasy pills, coming in at some 70.5%, topping the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain.
One person (48) was injured in a shooting in Amsterdam Nieuw-West late on Monday night, the victim was rushed to the hospital. He died this morning. Witnesses told local broadcaster AT5 that eight shots were fired.
One person (48) was injured in a shooting in Amsterdam Nieuw-West late on Monday night, the victim was rushed to the hospital. He died this morning. Witnesses told local broadcaster AT5 that eight shots were fired.
After the interception of 3,800 kilograms of cocaine in the port of Antwerp, the container was delivered on Monday at an address in Breda, Holland. Two men were arrested. Both suspects are being led to a judge on Friday. According to the police, the street value of the cocaine is one hundred million euros.
Armed men in a helicopter tried to free from the prison in Roermond Benaouf Adaoui, a top guy of the Mocro maffia. The plan failed and a shootout with police followed one guy was killed and three arrested, others are on the run.
Speaking of them, there is a trial underway in A'dam against a group Colombians. On Thursday morning, the Public Prosecutor called for 8 year prison against Aura C. (41). She is an Amsterdam real estate agent of Colombian origin who is suspected of leading the criminal organization acting in cocaine trafficking.
Three major witnesses in the trial against top criminal Willem Holleeder do not want to make any statements for the time being until their security has been improved. That is what the Telegraaf reports. The women, the two sisters of Holleeder and an ex-girlfriend have been protected for a long time, but are left to their fate. According to the newspaper, "protection measures and their financing" are negotiated. Until the outcome of those negotiations is clear, the women no longer want to testify. According to some people Holleeder was involved in 25 murders.
Heard the albanians where pretty big deal over there.
It has been known for a while that in Amsterdam Albanians are active in the wholesale of cocaine. More than one hundred Albanian criminals have been exposed in police research in collaboration with Italian authorities. The police arrested seven suspects on Tuesday.
Yeah thats what i heard, But every albanian ive met who's into this life tells me the italians are the nr1 of crime. And thats very uncommon for albanians admitting someones "better".
The Public Prosecution claimed this morning in appeal in the extra security court at Schiphol 18 million euros from Willem Holleeder. The amount is as high as the court in Haarlem sentenced Holleeder last year. It is mainly money that Holleeder would have squeezed out of the liquidated real estate tycoon Willem Endstra.
The young man who was killed on a Thursday night at a shooting in Marrakech, Morocco was buried in the red city on Friday afternoon. Hamza Chaib, student in the 7th year of Medicine, was not the target of the perpetrators. He was the son of the President of the Court of Appeal in Beni Mellal and an outstanding student. The 26-year-old Hamza was shot in the head on Thursday night while his girlfriend was seriously injured. The real goal was the owner of the cafe where they were going to drink something. The couple was by chance sitting at the table where the real goal was a few minutes earlier. In Moroccan media, the identity of the two Dutch suspects has been leaked. It would be Shardyone GS (29) born in Curaçao and Edwin RM (24) born in Amsterdam.
The actual target in Marrakech was Mustapha F. the owner of cafe la crème or his brother Mohammed. They belonged to the group around drug lord Samir 'Scarface' Bouyakhrichan, who was killed in Spain in 2014. Mustapha F., who lives a very luxury life, would have disputes with different groups.
Yeah thats what i heard, But every albanian ive met who's into this life tells me the italians are the nr1 of crime. And thats very uncommon for albanians admitting someones "better".
According to Dutch investigations the Albanians here worked for the Italians doing their dirty work, but in just three years time they moved up the ladder they are now at middle management level, police fear they will reach the top soon. The Dutch visited Albania and it looks like the authorities there are now serious about fighting crime, because they want to join the EU.
[/b]The Dutch visited Albania and it looks like the authorities there are now serious about fighting crime, because they want to join the EU.[b]
I can assure you that is pure bullshit. The authorities in Albania/Kosovo are gangsters themselves. They only tell the foreign countries they are making a effort to stop it but they are a part of it. In Albania the gangsters/drug lords controls the politicians and in Kosovo the politicians are the gangsters, the ones who extort all the companies and is behind heroin trafficking etc etc.
Have you seen this video H? Your friend Henk K. is throwing someone out of the MC with 'Bad Standing'. The camera crew were supposedly allowed to film everything in Henk's life but when the disgraced member got smacked around they were told to stop filming.. I like Henk, he's a no-nonsense, old school kind of guy..
The police in Amsterdam last Wednesday arrested an Irish-Dutch gang in a large-scale drug investigation. It concerns four Dutch, three Irish and a Belgian. They were detained by arrest teams at various locations in Amsterdam. In addition, one and a half tonnes of cash and 175 kg of soft drugs were seized. Furthermore, the police confiscated a bitcoinfarm, with which the suspects would deal with their transactions with digital currency. The police tracked the suspects after receiving a tip from Irish detectives that three Irish had traveled to Amsterdam with a large amount of money to buy drugs. The three (a man from Dublin and two from Limerick) were already followed from Schiphol Airport by the police. According to Irish media, the three Irish detainees in Amsterdam would be part of the infamous Kinahan clan, one of the largest drug organizations in Europe. The Kinahans would be active worldwide and also acted in cocaine with the El Chapo Sinaloa cartel.
'Neighbor' of murdered crime boss John Mieremet was murdered in Belgium. Marcel van Hout was found in his large villa in Neerpelt in a large pool of blood. Witnesses in Belgian media say that his throat would have been cut. Many Dutch people live in Neerpelt. Likewise, the liquidated criminal John Mieremet also had a home there.
Jos van Z. (71) from Sint Willebrord, a (former) leader from the criminal environment in the region, died of the injuries of a car crash in September. He tried to escape the police in his Audi RS. Sint Willebrord is one of those Brabant villages where gangs have a long history, over a hundred years. Van Z. was repeatedly in the news in high-profile international drug cases in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1982 he was one of the first gang leaders who was convicted in the Netherlands for the large-scale production of amphetamine. Later, other controversial and sometimes very expensive criminal investigations followed in which he figured alongside well-known leaders from the drug world.
The court in Amsterdam sentenced two men to import 454 kilos of cocaine. The drugs were found last April in the port of Rotterdam in a container that came from Colombia. The coke, with a value of about 22 million euros, was stamped with a Star of David.
Colombian A 49-year-old Colombian from the port city of Santa Marta was sentenced to six years in prison. The Colombian was in contact with fellow suspects in both the Netherlands and Colombia. In veiled language he spoke about 'girls', with which he meant the drugs.
Rhoon Another suspect, a 39-year-old man from Rhoon, has been without trace since the interception of the drugs last year. His company stood on the cargo papers as an addressee. He was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison by the court.
Why did you remove your post Billy? I agree with you about St Willebrord it's the Corleone of Brabant. But Oss is a close second.
I wanted to add some stuff, but somehow I deleted it and was too much in a hurry to start over. I'm an incorrigible perfectionist.. I agree with you on Oss, their reputation goes back decades.. 'Osse Messestekers' they are called
Hollander, you remember the guy that got beheaded in Amsterdam i think they put his head infront of a café.. Was it local groups behind that or was it Cartels ?
Dutch police set up an undercover operation within Satudarah to get evidence against Tony D. He was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of being the second gunman in the mistaken identity murder of Amsterdam DJ Djordy Latumahina. The undercover officers posed as members of motorcycle gang Satudarah to pressure the suspect's girlfriend.
Hollander, you remember the guy that got beheaded in Amsterdam i think they put his head infront of a café.. Was it local groups behind that or was it Cartels ?
Local groups, mainly of Moroccan origin. There have been some brutal cases around these guys kidnaps often involving torture.
Speaking of the beheading the latest info said the victim Nabil Amzieb was actively involved in the liquidation of Eaneas Lomp in 2015. Eaneas belonged to the gang of Gwenette Martha. The idea is that the assignment came from Omar Lkhorf, as revenge for the liquidation of his brother Youssef, with the 'December murders' (2012) in the Staatsliedenbuurt. Nabil would have carried out the assassination of Eneas together with Hicham M., with a judas role for Dani M.; Mitchell Janssen, liquidated in Medellín, Colombia in December 2016, would have driven the murder command.
The role of Suriname as an export country for cocaine is increasing enormously. In Rotterdam, a large batch of coke was discovered Thursday, coming from this country. Other European countries are also seeing a boom in cocaine from Suriname, such as Belgium, Spain and France. The US Drug Enforcement Administration earlier this year already sounded the alarm about the exploding cocaine exports from South America and via Suriname. One of the reasons for the increase is the increased production of coca leaves.
It is exactly a year ago that crime blogger Martin Kok (RIP) was shot dead in Laren. A lot has happened since then, one after the other journalist is threatened by the criminal milieu.
200 police officers arrested this week the leadership of Satudarah in Limburg. Four of the five suspects have a Moluccan background, they are good people but take no shit.
The idea I always had of Moluccans is that they're certainly tough people that stand their ground, but that they're seldom involved in organized crime themselves. At least not on a scale the native Dutch, Moroccans, Curaçaoans, Turks, Kurds, Serbs, Albanians or Chinese have been involved in "mafia"-type activities in the Netherlands. Even in the Satudarah, the large majority of the members that are highly involved in organized crime seem to be indigenous Dutch dudes. Moluccans always seem to be generally hardworking people who prefer mutual respect.
The police North Netherlands arrested the boss of the motor club No Surrender, Henk Kuipers (53), on Tuesday morning. He was arrested in his home in Emmen on suspicion of heavy abuse, extortion, threats, forgery and theft by force.
The police confirm this to De Telegraaf. Kuipers has grown into a national and international leader of the club in a few years. He is suspected of having mistreated and extorted at least eight members of the club because they would not have kept to the club rules. That's why they were put out of the club in 'bad standing'.
The men had to pay thousands of euros to the club. The police suspect that the club management makes a kind of revenue model of these 'bad standings'.
The idea I always had of Moluccans is that they're certainly tough people that stand their ground, but that they're seldom involved in organized crime themselves. At least not on a scale the native Dutch, Moroccans, Curaçaoans, Turks, Kurds, Serbs, Albanians or Chinese have been involved in "mafia"-type activities in the Netherlands. Even in the Satudarah, the large majority of the members that are highly involved in organized crime seem to be indigenous Dutch dudes. Moluccans always seem to be generally hardworking people who prefer mutual respect.
From the four leaders of Satudarah one is 'indigenous' Dutch; Michel Boer. The other 3 are Moluccans, and 2 of them, the Manahutu brothers are definitely involved in the highest levels of OC. Without a doubt..
The idea I always had of Moluccans is that they're certainly tough people that stand their ground, but that they're seldom involved in organized crime themselves. At least not on a scale the native Dutch, Moroccans, Curaçaoans, Turks, Kurds, Serbs, Albanians or Chinese have been involved in "mafia"-type activities in the Netherlands. Even in the Satudarah, the large majority of the members that are highly involved in organized crime seem to be indigenous Dutch dudes. Moluccans always seem to be generally hardworking people who prefer mutual respect.
From the four leaders of Satudarah one is 'indigenous' Dutch; Michel Boer. The other 3 are Moluccans, and 2 of them, the Manahutu brothers are definitely involved in the highest levels of OC. Without a doubt..
Angelo, one of the brothers, is back in the cell. I live very near a Moluccan neighbourhood and those people are very humble and they keep the area save.
The idea I always had of Moluccans is that they're certainly tough people that stand their ground, but that they're seldom involved in organized crime themselves. At least not on a scale the native Dutch, Moroccans, Curaçaoans, Turks, Kurds, Serbs, Albanians or Chinese have been involved in "mafia"-type activities in the Netherlands. Even in the Satudarah, the large majority of the members that are highly involved in organized crime seem to be indigenous Dutch dudes. Moluccans always seem to be generally hardworking people who prefer mutual respect.
From the four leaders of Satudarah one is 'indigenous' Dutch; Michel Boer. The other 3 are Moluccans, and 2 of them, the Manahutu brothers are definitely involved in the highest levels of OC. Without a doubt..
Angelo, one of the brothers, is back in the cell. I live very near a Moluccan neighbourhood and those people are very humble and they keep the area save.
I also have very good experiences with Moluccan people. If you respect them, they in general respect you back.
The same goes for Angelo and Xanterra Manuhutu btw, they are involved in crime but aren't scumbags at all imo. They were bouncers in Tilburg, back in the day when I went clubbing every weekend, and they were always very straight and respectful.. But if you fucked with them they would definitely teach you a lesson. I saw it happen a couple of times and they didn't give a shit how big the guys were or where they came from..
Billy did you also go to Kadance? I was into Hardcore in the 90s lol, still listening to the old stuff. An old friend of mine of those years joined Satudarah he's half Moluccan. Satudarah is intertwined with the RMS.
Billy did you also go to Kadance? I was into Hardcore in the 90s lol, still listening to the old stuff. An old friend of mine of those years joined Satudarah he's half Moluccan. Satudarah is intertwined with the RMS.
Of course!! I was 15 years old when I went there the first time, those were the days.. They made it in to an R&B club later unfortunately. Is that friend of yours by any chance named after an old Native-American chief?
No he has a dutch name only his mother is Moluccan.
Brotherhoods of No Surrender MC:
Sempre Omerta Brotherhood [geliëerd aan West Coast] Silent Death Brotherhood [geliëerd aan West Coast] Jokers Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Amsterdam] Los Soldados [geliëerd aan Amsterdam] Wolverinnes Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Emmen] The Metrauners MC [geliëerd aan Barcelona] Strong hearts Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Costa Dorada] Guardianes Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Costa Dorada] Muners Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Barcelona] Hijos de Odin Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Mala Raca] Atlas Riders Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Marrakech] Tres Craneos Brotherhood [geliëerd aan East Side] Frya Fresena Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Dark Side] Dominators Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Los Hermanos] Guerreros Brotherhood [geliëerd aan East Side] KHK Brotherhood [geliëerd aan Garuda] Frislan Guardians [geliëerd aan Sneek]
Gremium MC from Germany is also allied with No Surrender I think. Henk Kuiper threw that one guy out with Bad Standing when he didn't help a Gremium member when he got into a fight with multiple Hells Angels. It was in that video I posted a while ago from POWNED.
Speaking of POWNED, Henk Kuiper was reportedly paid by the network and it's somewhat of a scandal over here right now. Taxpayers' money going to organized crime and all, blah blah blah...
After a series of pro-forma hearings, the trial of Holleeder, accused of six murders, finally starts in February. I bet this will be a great media spectacle similar to the last Gotti trial.
After a series of pro-forma hearings, the trial of Holleeder, accused of six murders, finally starts in February. I bet this will be a great media spectacle similar to the last Gotti trial.
Most def, The Nose wants that his sisters and ex first testify so that they can't adjust their testimonies later.
I'm very curious in general, if the sisters and the ex can withstand the undoubtedly intense cross-examination by Holleeder's lawyer..
After a series of pro-forma hearings, the trial of Holleeder, accused of six murders, finally starts in February. I bet this will be a great media spectacle similar to the last Gotti trial.
Most def, The Nose wants that his sisters and ex first testify so that they can't adjust their testimonies later.
I'm very curious in general, if the sisters and the ex can withstand the undoubtedly intense cross-examination by Holleeder's lawyer..
Astrid is a lawyer herself so she know how it works.
Holleeder: "I know my sister. She now also sends text messages to the police every time I have said something to see my words. "According to him, his sister, who is a lawyer, will always try to refute his words when he is first heard. "That can be to my disadvantage."
The motorcycle club Bandidos is banned as an association. The court in Utrecht has determined this today. According to the court, it is a criminal organization, whose activities lead to disruption of society.
The ban applies to both the Dutch and the worldwide organization. The Public Prosecution Service had therefore asked to prevent foreign Bandidos from becoming active in our country.
It is the first time that a motorcycle gang in the Netherlands is banned and it is a great success for the Public Prosecution Service. Attempts to ban the Hells Angels came to a standstill in 2009.
A culture of lawlessness The Public Prosecution had asked for a ban on the Bandidos because the motorcycle club is engaged in drug trafficking, prostitution and arms trade according to international investigations.
The judge said today that the Bandidos present themselves with a culture of lawlessness. According to the judge, the organization is focused on committing, supporting and stimulating violence.
This is apparent, among other things, from the promotion of people and the issuing of patches for violence. The judge also heavily reckoned that violence by Bandidos members endangers the safety of other citizens.
In the Beverwaard district of Rotterdam two men were shot dead in their car tonight around 7:00 PM. Local residents speak of a salvo from probably an automatic firearm. Then a car would have driven its way with great speed.
Crown witness Giuseppe 'Peter' La Serpe was overwhelmed by the position he received in the Passage liquidation process. He struggled with his role as a traitor. He may soon testify again in the case against Willem Holleeder. La Serpe says this in the latest book by research journalist Marian Husken, entitled 'Deals and death lists'. In it, a number of people are interviewed who have been included in the witness protection program by the judiciary. Currently there are around 160, according to the most recent figures.
Billy do you know what happened with the case against Koos Reuvers? The court in Den Bosch acquitted him in 2015 of the alleged attempted manslaughter, but on appeal justice again demanded 2.5 year.
Billy do you know what happened with the case against Koos Reuvers? The court in Den Bosch acquitted him in 2015 of the alleged attempted manslaughter, but on appeal justice again demanded 2.5 year.
Not really, I assume the appeal will go to trial somewhere in 2018..
A thirty-year-old Dutch man has been arrested for involvement in a shooting in a brothel in Marbella, Spain. In addition, five people were injured. The Dutchman was arrested in the Norwegian capital Oslo on 21 December, but his arrest has only just become known.
According to Spanish media, the man tried to escape his arrest in Norway by showing a false passport. He also intentionally burned his fingertips to prevent identification.
Automatic firearm On December 10, the Dutch man got into a fight in Marbella with four other guests, including a Frenchman and a Belgian. The Dutchman got serious blows, left the brothel, but came back a little later, armed with an automatic firearm. He opened the fire to the guests who had given him the beating before. One of the men fired back, whereupon the Dutch fled. The police arrested a total of seven people the same night and the next day, including the Frenchman and two Belgians. The 30-year-old Frenchman was wanted for murder and arms trade and has since been extradited to France. In house searches, six luxury cars, more than 10,000 euro cash, guns, 21 mobile phones, German and Spanish license plates and a drone were seized.
Attempted homicide The rental car of the Dutchman was burnt down the day after the shooting. He is suspected of forbidden possession of weapons and attempted murder of the four guests of the brothel who were injured. The identity of the Dutchman has not been made known.
In the Dominican Republic a man was arrested who is suspected of involvement in the liquidation of Cuma Ceviz and Rachid Benbouker. It concerns the Venezuelan Carlos José Gascon González, alias 'El Gocho' (the pig). González would be the head of an international gang active in the Caribbean, South America and Europe dealing with drug trafficking, liquidations and money laundering. The two dutch criminals were executed and thrown in a pit last year.
A veteran of the Penoze John Heinen (60) from Sint-Willebrord was arrested in Scheveningen for drug trafficking, along with six other suspects. The others are between 42 and 60 years old and come from Rotterdam, The Hague and Scheveningen. It happened already on December 20, but there was a good reason to keep it quiet. According to the newspaper, the police had infiltrated the group and 60 kilos of cocaine, four firearms and 300,000 euros of cash had been found in house searches. We know him of the York gang, in the 90s major players in synthetic drugs who worked with the Israelis in Amsterdam.
Moluccan Kajahatan The word kejahatan is Indonesian for 'committing crime' and has since become a synonym for Moluccan organized crime. Due to the Netherlands' large Moluccan Ambonese community kejahatan groups also exist in the Netherlands. Dutch Ambonese gangsters are involved in kidnapping, armed robbery, extortion and drug trafficking, especially the growing and illegally distributing of marihuana. An alleged criminal gang of Ambonese origin is Satudarah, a known one-percenter motorcycle club. Ambonese gangsters have traditionally also assisted other criminal enterprises. Incidents with the so-called Tattoo killers, a Moluccan/Ambonese gang specialised in contract killing, have also been major news in the Dutch criminal underworld in recent years.
A veteran of the Penoze John Heinen (60) from Sint-Willebrord was arrested in Scheveningen for drug trafficking, along with six other suspects. The others are between 42 and 60 years old and come from Rotterdam, The Hague and Scheveningen. It happened already on December 20, but there was a good reason to keep it quiet. According to the newspaper, the police had infiltrated the group and 60 kilos of cocaine, four firearms and 300,000 euros of cash had been found in house searches. We know him of the York gang, in the 90s major players in synthetic drugs who worked with the Israelis in Amsterdam.
In a large Belgian-Dutch investigation into the production and trade of synthetic drugs, 19 suspects were arrested, including five Dutch. Among them is John Heinen who would have led the network.
NO SURRENDER MEMBERS ARRESTED IN INVESTIGATION INTO ALMERE WOMAN'S MURDER By Janene Pieters on January 16, 2018 - 16:30
The police arrested two members of outlaw motorcycle club No Surrender who they believe may have been involved in the murder of Esther Paul from Almere. The two men, aged 32 and 40, were arrested in Amsterdam on Monday, the police said in a statement on Tuesday.
The No Surrender members are actually suspected of being involved in a violent robbery in Literatuurwijk in Almere in December 2016, in which a 78-year-old woman was hurt. The police believe that this robbery may be connected to the death of 43-year-old Esther Paul, whose body was found in the water of the Veluwemeer in Biddinghuizen in April last year.
The police suspect that Paul may have been murdered in a conflict that may stem from the robbery in Almere.
According to the Telegraaf, Esther Paul is the ex girlfriend of Frank G. - a main suspect in a cannabis case around the former director fo Amsterdam taxi center TCA. According to the newspaper, Paul kept large sums of money at her home. A man came to pick up money on behalf of a criminal, but it was gone. "Esther was warned several times, but the money did not reappear", an acquaintance of Paul said to the newspaper.
In the days before her death, Paul was staying in a chalet on camping grounds Riviera Beach in Biddinguizen, about 8 kilometers from where her body was found. The were reports that she was in hiding, though the police did not comment what or who she was hiding from.
Have you read the book 'Afrekeningen' by Paul Vugts yet Hollander?
I had not heard of it but picked it up when I read in the news that he had been (On law enforcement's advice) in hiding for 3 months because of threats against his life.. The book was very good, I couldn't put it away and finished it in 3 days over the weekend. Vugts explains in detail all the hits and subsequent trails and describes the rise of the careers of some of the leading figures in the vendetta between the two criminal gangs. Also learned a lot of new things about how law enforcement tries to get hold on some of these maniacs. I never knew guys like Noffel and Redouan T. were already that high up on the European criminal ladder..
In De Pijp, Amsterdam criminal Annass el Ajjoudi was shot dead around 7pm on Wednesday. El Ajjoudi had been on a death list for a long time. He belonged to the group of Houssine A. and Benaouf A. , they are involved in an underworld feud which has killed more than twenty mostly young Amsterdam criminals since 2012.
In De Pijp, Amsterdam criminal Annass el Ajjoudi was shot dead around 7pm on Wednesday. El Ajjoudi had been on a death list for a long time. He belonged to the group of Houssine A. and Benaouf A. , they are involved in an underworld feud which has killed more than twenty mostly young Amsterdam criminals since 2012.
El Ajjoudi was known as 'Boeloeloe' on the street, he also was mentioned in 'Afrekeningen'.
BTW, Boeloeloe? Who the hell makes up these nicknames?? LOL
Mario van Gerwen, father of a world-renowned showjumper has been jailed for 17 years after he tried to smuggle £4million worth of cocaine into the UK.
Keylow, a prominent member of the Rollin 200 Main Triad Neighborhood Crips, founded the outlaw mc Caloh Wagoh. It already has 11 chapters. Keylow has ties to the Rollin 40s NC in LA.
According to various sources, the victim is 17-year-old Mohammed B. The two wounded have been transferred to the hospital. One of them is Gianni L., (19) who was injured but transferred to the hospital outside life danger. The other is a trainee from the neighborhood center Wittenburg, who has been injured in her leg. Her injury is also not life-threatening. According to a witness, masked men with an automatic weapon entered the community center and made it clear that they were looking for a boy. He would participate in kickboxing training at the community center.
Drugs gangs are finding new ways to hide marijuana plantations CrimeSociety January 30, 2018 Drugs gangs continue to find new ways to hide their illegal marijuana plantations from the outside world and the number of plantation busts last year fell 22%, news agency ANP said. Last year, police and officials from the electricity grid group Stedin found just under 1,000 plantations in private homes and commercial buildings – down a fifth on the year before. ‘Organised crime is becoming increasingly innovative in hiding plantations,’ Stedin’s fraud chief Barthjeu Ammerlaan told the news agency. In particular, cellars with hidden ventilation systems are becoming popular, he said. Last October the Dutch government said it is to run trials of licenced marijuana cultivation in an effort to take the drug out of the criminal circuit. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archiv...-new-ways-to-hide-marijuana-plantations/
FIVE ARRESTED IN MASSIVE POLICE RAID ON DRUG LABS By Janene Pieters on January 31, 2018 - 10:14
The police raided a dozen locations in Oost-Brabant, Limburg and Gelderland early on Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing investigation into the trade of chemicals and narcotics. Five suspects were arrested, the police said in a statement.
The raids started at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday. Police officers stormed homes and storage units in Geldrop, Helmond, Someren, Venlo, Venray, Nieuw Bergen and Velddriel. The police are still searching through these locations, and expect that this will take up a large part of the day.
The suspects were arrested at the same time that the raids started. They are four men from Geldrop, aged 57, 52, 41 and 28 years old, and a 27-year-old from Venlo. The 52-year-old from Geldrop is considered the main suspect. He and the Venlo suspect were arrested by SWAT teams because the police received information that they may be armed and dangerous.
All five suspects are in restricted custody, which means that the only contact with the outside world they are allowed, is with their lawyer.
One of the most wanted criminals in the Netherlands, Satudarah leader Michel B. (52), was arrested this morning during a blitz by a special police unit in Austria. He was with his girlfriend on a ski holiday in the well-known winter sports village of Gerlos.
One of the most wanted criminals in the Netherlands, Satudarah leader Michel B. (52), was arrested this morning during a blitz by a special police unit in Austria. He was with his girlfriend on a ski holiday in the well-known winter sports village of Gerlos.
Last year the municipality of Tilburg prevented the controversial Turkish-German boxing club Osmanen Germania from settling in the city. Spokespersons of the police and the municipality confirmed this on Wednesday following a report in the Brabants Dagblad.
Osmanen Germania is an organization with the characteristics of a motorcycle club. Members wear vests that resemble those of motorcycle clubs. In Germany, Osmanen Germania has been linked to nationalist violence against a similar Kurdish club.
According to the municipality of Tilburg, the refusal of the club fits in with the line to keep motorcycle clubs out of the door. Motor club No Surrender has left Tilburg and the municipality is also trying to work Satudarah out.
The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) has previously expressed its concerns about the Turkish martial arts club.
Like the defense said at the start Holleeder speaks openly about many things like how they invested money of the Heineken kidnap in cocaine trafficking in South America.
A lot of speculation about who he is any idea dutchies? Jocic maybe?
The court, which is expected to sit for 60 days, was told that Holleeder had insisted to police that he was not a central figure in the underworld but that this dubious honour belonged to a mysterious individual described by the defendant only as “the all-knowerâ€.
Joca Amsterdam was close to Arkan,they were really good friends and business partners.When arkan was opening his casino in belgrade,Joca brought 700,000 deutsche marks.
Joca amsterdam is supposed to get out of jail this year.
Joca Amsterdam was close to Arkan,they were really good friends and business partners.When arkan was opening his casino in belgrade,Joca brought 700,000 deutsche marks.
Joca amsterdam is supposed to get out of jail this year.
They were also close to Stanley Hillis killed in 2011. So many links between the dutch and serbs.
Back in 1999 Joca had big problems in Amsterdam,they stole him whole shipment of heroin,he lost around 10 million deutsche marks,he escaped to Bulgaria where Milorad Ulemek Legija set him up to bulgarian police.
But Joca had even bigger problems later with William Vim Holeder(don't know much about that man)According to some sources Joca is even afraid of that man. William Vim Holeder ordered killings of almost all of Joca's associates including his best man Srdjana Miranovica,before Miranovic,Aleksandar Bulatovic was killed in Amsterdam in 2003 and later Mirko Vukmirovic in Spain. In total of 12 Joca's associates were killed.
How i understand its because of Freddy Heineken kidnapping, William Vim Holeder started eliminating everyone who can give any information to police about him being involved in the kidnapping.
According to sources William Vim Holeder clan is strongest in Holland,member of his clan is Luka Bojovic(he is most powerful crime figure in Serbia and one of most powerful in Balkans), also Milos Petrovic who organized killing of Joca's best man Srdjana Miranovica, he was arrested in Holland few years ago.
Holleeder had plans for the liquidation of eight people before he was arrested in 2015. That is what his sister Astrid declared to the police. Among them crime leaders Danny K. and Dino S., crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and his own sister Sonja, as well as the prominent Hells Angel Harrie S.and Maruf M., a Bosnian who was regularly seen with Holleeder between 2000 and 2006.
Holleeder had plans for the liquidation of eight people before he was arrested in 2015. That is what his sister Astrid declared to the police. Among them crime leaders Danny K. and Dino S., crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and his own sister Sonja, as well as the prominent Hells Angel Harrie S.and Maruf M., a Bosnian who was regularly seen with Holleeder between 2000 and 2006.
Maruf M. u meant on Maruf Mrzic Paja ? I thought he is close associate of Holleeder. I got interested in this,read a little bit online looks like DIno S. was also close associate of Holleeder , is he afraid someone will rat him to police,so he is eliminating them ? Looks like he is behind a lot of murders , i didn't know he was that brutal , also didn't know u had guys like him over there.
Luka Bojovic's clan did murders for Holleeder , Luka Bojovic is leader of Zemunski Klan,back in late 1990's and early 2000's they were most powerful clan Balkans ever had.They also killed prime minister of Serbia in 2003. According to some Maruf Mrzic Paja set up Luka Bojovic in spain and rat him to police.
Edit: Can you post here about Holleeder upcoming trial ? For six murders,he is really fu*ked.
Yes strax I will post about the trial if there are some highlights with over 60 court days i will be busy the coming year.
Sam & john had a conflict with Joca.
Third day of the trial according to wiretaps Sam Klepper wanted 10 million from Holleeder, they kidnapped his brother Gerard. But the nose would still be around Klepper and Mieremet he also paid them another million. It seems he was afraid/nervous because Sam & John were very dangerous.
Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, Chief of Amsterdam's police commission, is worried about the perpetrators of liquidations in the city. 'They are disadvantaged, have little prospects, little conscientiousness. And that is a dangerous mix. We hear amounts between 3,000 and 5,000 euros for a liquidation. ' In contrast to the 80s and 90s, when according to the chief commissioner liquidations were carried out by professional hitmen , it is nowadays mainly young boys from Amsterdam, who are already in action for less than a tenth of the amounts paid to professional hired killers. Because of these low amounts, there are amateurs who work with uncontrolled and brutal violence.
Strax, when Holleeder served his sentence for extortion, he was arrested in his cell for the murder of Miranovic, but they hadn't enough proof to have a case. The six murders they now accuse him of are just the tip of the iceberg about thirty people around him were killed.
Holleeder is criminal to the core, no doubt, but it annoys me how the sisters are portrayed in the media as some sort of saints who endured all that abuse from him and never got anything out of it. While the truth isn't that black and white at all..
They also profited from all the money coming in all those years. Astrid was a bit of a consigliere to Holleeder and Sonja was married to Van Hout. What a lot of people also seem to forget is the reason why they flipped. It is very obvious that they finally cooperated with the government because the government was starting to go after the sisters themselves. They wanted to indict them on tax charges and money laundering and that was their incentive to cooperate.
Once again, Holleeder is, without a doubt, a huge scumbag but the trial by media Astid has started and the portrayal of herself as such a victim is annoying and simply incorrect imo..
You're right about the sisters I do think it's brave what they do and all those murders had to stop, but it's a criminal family maybe only Gerard is not involved, but he was fair game when he was abducted. It's unbelievable how many normal people from all over Holland attend the trial he is a celebrity-gangster not because of his sisters or other turncoats like Peter La Serpe or Fred Ros.
According to Holleeder he did not deal drugs. He only lent money to people who did drugs. And so he did nothing in drugs. "Oh, that's funny," says the judge.
Billy him talking at length is amazing, I never heard this before from a murder suspect. Holleeder said Astrid had a relation with drug boss The Hakkelaar.
Billy him talking at length is amazing, I never heard this before from a murder suspect. Holleeder said Astrid had a relation with drug boss The Hakkelaar.
Is there audio of this or only transcripts?
Yeah, the Hakkelaar was the real deal. In the end he couldn't stand Klaas Bruinsma, who he felt looked down on him because he was a Kamper..
I have no idea why media here calls him William, i was about to ask you how common is that name in Holland because its not dutch name...
Anyway as our media reports here when talking about Joca, they say Holleeder's clan is most powerful clan in Holland , is that true or just classic media exaggeration ?
As i read more and more about him, i really got impression his sisters are indeed innocent angels,how deeply his sisters were involved in his business?
So actually it is family members turning on each other to save their own ass from jail,what a great family lol
I know that Milos Petrovic was recorded saying "Kill the poodle" to Holleeder which is nickname they gave to Joca because of his hair. The main hitman of Zemunski Klan,Sretko Kalinic who turned state witness was questioned by dutch police in 2012,they wanted to know everything about Luka Bojovic's business in Holland and his ties to Holleeder.
I have no idea why media here calls him William, i was about to ask you how common is that name in Holland because its not dutch name...
Anyway as our media reports here when talking about Joca, they say Holleeder's clan is most powerful clan in Holland , is that true or just classic media exaggeration ?
As i read more and more about him, i really got impression his sisters are indeed innocent angels,how deeply his sisters were involved in his business?
So actually it is family members turning on each other to save their own ass from jail,what a great family lol
I know that Milos Petrovic was recorded saying "Kill the poodle" to Holleeder which is nickname they gave to Joca because of his hair. The main hitman of Zemunski Klan,Sretko Kalinic who turned state witness was questioned by dutch police in 2012,they wanted to know everything about Luka Bojovic's business in Holland and his ties to Holleeder.
Willem is William in english, Joca speaks dutch but the main language in that world is english. I agree it's a family feud, his sister Astrid , a lawyer, is the same as the nose (his nickname) they can manipulate anybody. There was a time Stanley Hillis, Dino Soerel and Holleeder were untouchable. but not anymore. If Joca is coming home he can take it all lol.
The Dutch police will cooperate with local authorities in Colombia, Panama and Spain to combat cocaine trafficking. That says Wilbert Paulissen, head of the national criminal investigation department, in De Telegraaf.The background to the plan is the continuing and probably growing flow of cocaine that is imported by the Dutch in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Paulissen says that in Colombia there will be collaboration with the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
"He also does not know that he is so strong," Holleeder says about Dick Vrij who broke his jaw. But actually he thinks that Astrid is the fault of his broken jaw.
Yeah, the Hakkelaar was the real deal. In the end he couldn't stand Klaas Bruinsma, who he felt looked down on him because he was a Kamper..
The daughter of Johan Verhoek ("De Hakkelaar") has sent a letter to Holleeder's lawyer Sander Janssen in which she says that her father, together with Astrid Holleeder, wanted to seize parts of the criminal legacy of the murdered Cor van Hout.
Tense day in court, Sonja was very emotional sometimes screaming.
The first hours filled with sweet conversations between Willem, Sonja and her children; the last few hours a technical debate broke out about Sonja's money flows.
Now that Sonja and her sister Astrid put their brother in their statements as an unscrupulous beast that terrorized their lives, Holleeder's lawyer Sander Janssen wanted to know how 'thousands' of tapped conversations and messages can be found in the file in which Holleeder, a dear family man it seems, overloaded his sister and, above all, his niece and nephew with gifts for which they always thanked their 'uncle'.
In the afternoon it was mainly about the much-discussed legacy of Cor van Hout. The house in Spain, the prostitution houses in Alkmaar, financed with the ransom of the Heineken kidnapping.
Sonja Holleeder bought off 1.1 million euros for money laundering. It was only recently that she started to tell a new story, which according to her is the complete truth. That change was preceded by months of negotiations with the State.
Lawyer Janssen would like to know what kind of new agreement with the State Sonja has made.. The court determines Friday afternoon whether Sonja should tell about it.
I feel like his sisters are even worse than he is,once they realized they will be prosecuted, they turned on brother,only to save their own asses,acting they are like saints terrorized by him, oh god...
I feel like his sisters are even worse than he is,once they realized they will be prosecuted, they turned on brother,only to save their own asses,acting they are like saints terrorized by him, oh god...
In the world of the Holleeders everything revolves around money of course Sonja's husband was killed so I can imagine they want some kind of revenge, but she also wants to keep Van Hout his investments financed with the ransom of the Alfred Heineken kidnapping.
Joca with his best man Zabac,Zabac was famous during the 90's for driving best cars in country, he even had famous Lamborghini Diablo that he got from prince of monaco.
Martin Hoogland, killer of Bruinsma, worked as an agent at the Amsterdam police until the 1980s. He was expelled because of too close links with Joca, and after that he became the only Dutch citizen to reach the top of the former Yugoslav mafia. Joca put a memoriam in the biggest newspaper a few times after he was shot dead in 2004.
SERBIAN DRUG GANG MEMBER ARRESTED IN AMSTERDAM By Janene Pieters on July 3, 2015 - 16:25 The police arrested Darko T., who is suspected of being a gang member of a notorious Serbian drug organization, in Amsterdam-West on Thursday night, the Public Prosecutor announced on Friday.
According to the Public Prosecutor, the drug organization is widely involved in cocaine trade. Justice in Serbia had issued an international arrest warrant for T., along with a requested extradition. "For some time there have been signals that T. may be hiding in the Netherlands", the Prosecutor said.
According to information provided by the Serbian authorities, T. is a member of Darko Saric's notorious drug organization. Saric was arrested last year in a joint action consisting of Serbian, Argentinian and American police officers and judicial authorities after a large shipment of cocaine was intercepted in Uruguay.
T. lived in Italy in 2008 and 2009. There he was allegedly involved in large-scale cocaine trafficking between South American and Western Europe. "He visited Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay for drug business and allegedly prepared the purchase of 2,171 kilos of cocaine that would have been transported to Western Europe by boat", the prosecutor said. "This shipment was intercepted and that was the start of what became known as Operation Balkan Warrior."
T. is of both Montenegrin and Dutch nationality. His extradition request will be handled by the Amsterdam District Court.
Today, the public prosecutors will be given the entire day to interview Willem Holleeder about the statements he previously made with the examining magistrate and about recordings made by his sisters.
About the links to Darko Saric,sorry i didn't answered before,but that is one long and very interesting story,they are all connected.
It all started with clan called "America",they started in New York,they were recruited by Bosko Radonjic who was close to John Gotti and Irish mafia members in New York, Bosko Radonjic was involved in the jury tampering during Gotti's original 1986 trial for racketeering.
First leader of the clan "America" was Joca Amsterdam,they came to Serbia after John Gotti's arrest and here they started working for secret service and eliminating most powerful members of organized crime(they got the list of names they need to eliminate),Joca escapes to Bulgaria in 1995 after he was charged for murder of Gorana Marjanovica,but "America" continues to eliminate people in Belgrade,until they got expelled from Serbia by new strongest player Zemunski Clan.That's when Joca gets ratted to police in Bulgaria by Legija(one of leaders of zemunski clan).
After they got expelled,they started to move insane amounts of drugs from South America to Europe using mostly ports of Amsterdam.So then with Joca in prison, Majk(second in command of "America") in prison in Greece and third in command Zoran Jaksic also in prison, Darko Saric takes over their cocaine business,works with same people in South America to brings drugs to Europe.
Today all members of "America" are free and no one knows where they are,expect Joca and Zoran Jaksic(arrested in Peru few years ago), Majk who was sentenced in Greece to 40 years in prison got out after 5.
Zoran Jaksic visited Serbia,no one knew that,he got beaten up in Belgrade club by members of Sale Mutavi clan, today they are one of most powerful clans in Belgrade. Sale Mutavi was killed in 2016,according to some,because of what his clan did to Jaksic.
Good stuff strax. I never heard about the link with Bosko who i only knew of his ties in the new york underworld.
So far the trial of the nose has been interesting its called the trial of the century here. At the start i thought it would be a solid conviction for at least one murder but my gut feeling now says there could be a suprising outcome next year. At the public tribune they also seem to take the side of Willem.
About the links to Darko Saric,sorry i didn't answered before,but that is one long and very interesting story,they are all connected.
It all started with clan called "America",they started in New York,they were recruited by Bosko Radonjic who was close to John Gotti and Irish mafia members in New York, Bosko Radonjic was involved in the jury tampering during Gotti's original 1986 trial for racketeering.
First leader of the clan "America" was Joca Amsterdam,they came to Serbia after John Gotti's arrest and here they started working for secret service and eliminating most powerful members of organized crime(they got the list of names they need to eliminate),Joca escapes to Bulgaria in 1995 after he was charged for murder of Gorana Marjanovica,but "America" continues to eliminate people in Belgrade,until they got expelled from Serbia by new strongest player Zemunski Clan.That's when Joca gets ratted to police in Bulgaria by Legija(one of leaders of zemunski clan).
After they got expelled,they started to move insane amounts of drugs from South America to Europe using mostly ports of Amsterdam.So then with Joca in prison, Majk(second in command of "America") in prison in Greece and third in command Zoran Jaksic also in prison, Darko Saric takes over their cocaine business,works with same people in South America to brings drugs to Europe.
Today all members of "America" are free and no one knows where they are,expect Joca and Zoran Jaksic(arrested in Peru few years ago), Majk who was sentenced in Greece to 40 years in prison got out after 5.
Zoran Jaksic visited Serbia,no one knew that,he got beaten up in Belgrade club by members of Sale Mutavi clan, today they are one of most powerful clans in Belgrade. Sale Mutavi was killed in 2016,according to some,because of what his clan did to Jaksic.
I read somewhere this Zoran Jaksic was responsible for several hundreds of tons of Cocaine being smuggled to Europe. It amazes me that when you're in that kind of power, you still get beat down like a fucking child in the middle of the club. That other guy showed absolutely no fear whatsoever for this Zoran, If he was frightened just a lil bit he would have killed him there. On the other hand you see this Zoran walking to this other guy like a pussy with a smile like he knows he has done something bad.
Imagine seeing a Ndrangheta boss or not to even mention a Cartel boss being smacked down like this.
@doggystyle: The guy that first punched him is called "Meda" translated to "Bear".There is a long story behind why they beat him up,which i will probably write in few years,since all this guys are still around and i am pretty close in real life to all of them.Wouldn't be smart idea to post stuff here lol
@Hollander: Ilie Priescu is still alive? As far as i know he was arrested few years ago,when police busted large heroin operation. Seems like port of Amsterdam are major entry point for drugs used by people from Balkans. The clan "America" i talked about in previous post,mostly used port of Amsterdam to bring drugs,i am sure they needed to pay % to someone there? Holleeder maybe?
The clan "America" i talked about in previous post,mostly used port of Amsterdam to bring drugs,i am sure they needed to pay % to someone there? Holleeder maybe?
The one with the strongest connections to the yugos (like we still call them) was Stanley Hillis some article called him the capo di tutti capi. He was riddled with bullets in 2011 while two police agents sat in a trailer next to where he parked his car they wanted to record the meeting he would have had. After the execution a police helicopter followed the getaway transit car but somehow lost it..
Israel is the Major Distribution Channel, and headquarters of Crime Inc, for cocaine, ecstasy and now Opiods into Europe and America
Israel a major hub in the international cocaine trade
Haaretz News, Israel
On a wall of a Israel Police classified intelligence unit hangs a map of the world. The countries of Central and South America are highlighted in red, the countries of western Africa are highlighted in green and arrows drawn the length and width of the map indicating drug trafficking movements all point to one country, whose name is highlighted: Israel.
It should be noted that Israel has a “star role†in the World Drug Report for 2013 issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and released last June. In the report, which discusses trends in the world, Israel is not infrequently listed in connection with cocaine. Over recent years, there has been a significant increase in cocaine trafficking to and from Israel: “Limited but non-negligible amounts of cocaine have also been seized in the Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon and, notably, Israel, which registered an increase in 2011; hence a link between this emerging route and the Near and Middle East cannot be excluded.â€
In its annual report for 2012, the International Narcotics Control Board lists Brazil and Israel among the “countries that are major manufacturers, exporters, importers and users of narcotic drugs.â€
Whereas Israel is mentioned in the same breath with Brazil with regard to the cocaine trade, it is difficult to find up-to-date figures in Israel on the scope of cocaine trafficking at the local level. However, the latest survey by Israel’s Anti-Drug Authority on cocaine, which appeared in 2009, noted a clear trend: In comparison with 2005, the amount of cocaine used in Israel had doubled by 2009 and close to one percent of all Israelis aged 18-40 indicated they had used cocaine by then.
Dr. Haim Mal, head of the rehabilitation unit in the Israel Anti-Drug Authority, believes that the increased use of cocaine in Israel stems from changes in the lifestyle of Israelis. “Whereas people in the past looked for drugs that would soothe them and produce peace of mind, now they are looking for drugs that will enable them to be more alert. Cocaine is a social drug that can be found in nightclubs in Israel’s major cities and among a wide range of users, most of them in the liberal professions,†Mal said. He points out that cocaine is “a social phenomenon that has emerged in Israel as in other countries around the world.â€
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of persons who have been hospitalized in Israel as a result of cocaine use. “Unlike heroin, which damages the body physically,†he emphasizes, “cocaine damages the soul.â€
“It was three in the morning and I had already had a number of drinks,†G., a young Israeli woman in her 30s with a Master’s degree in Law, describes an evening she spent in a local nightclub a year and a half ago. “The washrooms were really crowded, but not always because of bursting bladders. There was a disorderly lineup that was moving along very slowly. Sometimes the door opened and out would come two to four people, who had emerged from one of the stalls. After about a quarter of an hour, or it might have been 20 minutes, it was my turn.â€
“I went in with two friends; one of them took out a bag of coke and began to spread the stuff on a small surface. He then used a credit card to arrange the coke in rows. I took out a 100-shekel note from my pocket, rolled it up and then each of us took turns snorting two rows. At that moment, I still felt nothing. I went to the bar and ordered a vodka chaser; we all then went back to the dance floor. We danced up a storm and felt we could go on doing that forever. Suddenly, you have this burst of energy. Everything was dark around me and I couldn’t give a damn about anyone; I was so full of self-confidence,†G. recounted her experience.
“After less than an hour, we went back to the washrooms. It was like some kind of ceremony and that’s how the entire evening progressed right up until dawn. I emerged from the nightclub. It was six in the morning and I couldn’t believe that it was daylight outside. Nor could I believe that I had danced without getting tired. Since then, I never go to a nightclub without my sunglasses,†she concluded.
According to figures released by the UN, the chief increase in cocaine trafficking and consumption is taking place in the developing countries of Asia, with Israel being one of these. However, the situation in Israel is not substantially different from that in Europe or the U.S.; cocaine has simply arrived in Israel fashionably late. What is more, the percentage of cocaine seized by the authorities – estimated to be about three to seven percent of the total amount being trafficked into Israel – is similar to the figures in other countries. In Israel in 2009, 63 kilograms were seized; for 2010, 2011, and 2012, the corresponding figures are 71, 264 and 171.
The Israel Police are painfully aware of the fact that these amounts are a drop in the bucket and that they have no impact whatsoever on the drug’s availability. Nor has the construction of the fence along Israel’s border with Sinai led to any “evaporation†of the hashish trafficked in this country and it has had no effect on the accessibility of cocaine, which can be obtained almost every evening in local nightclubs. This is a drug that brings in huge profits to those who sell it; thus, they always find ways to meet the demand of the market.
In Israel, as in other countries, cocaine is perceived as the drug of the rich, and not just because of its high price. Drug dealers call it “the drug that lifts you up, because it takes you to the best places imaginable but leaves you sharp and focused – king or queen of the world.†Crack cocaine is not prevalent in Israel.
As early as the first decades of the previous century, cocaine made its appearance in Tel Aviv. In 1929, the Tel Aviv Police seized 800 grams of the drug, which at the time was worth 300 Palestinian pounds. The cocaine had been concealed in a book that had arrived from Vienna. In 1936, a Jaffa resident was arrested with cocaine in his possession. The British magistrate’s court judge sentenced him to three months behind bars.
Cocaine is extracted from the coca plant, which grows primarily in South America. Last year, Peru became the world’s number one exporter of cocaine with a total of no less than 538 tons of the drug shipped out of the country, according to estimates made by international law enforcement agencies. Second in this notorious list is Colombia, with 345 tons exported in 2012, followed by Bolivia with 265 tons exported during that same year.
Because of the never-ending international war on drugs, which is being spearheaded by America’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), drug dealers use various sophisticated methods for reaching their customers. In recent years, a new drug trafficking route has opened up from West Africa – chiefly through the territories of weak countries with unstable regimes. Because of the prevalence there of weak governments in power and corrupt law enforcement systems, the West African countries have become virgin soil for the importation and redistribution of cocaine from South America. Recently, an additional smuggling route has been launched through Syria and Lebanon; it then continues through Turkey to all of Europe.
On the consumption end, the U.S. takes a leading role. In one University of Massachusetts study, 90 percent of all U.S. bank notes were examined had traces of cocaine. However, America is not alone as far as use of cocaine is concerned; it is simply at the top of a list that includes several European countries, such as Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Italy. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that the main Mafia organizations in Italy – Ndrangheta, or the Calabrian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, and Camorra, or the Neapolitan Mafia – rake in an annual income of 116 billion euros. That is more than the annual sales volume of Italy’s energy giant, Eni, the country’s largest company.
When “black money†on such a monstrous scale is being circulated around the world, it invariably attracts the major crime organizations, including those in Israel. “There are Israeli crime organizations that have joined forces with the world’s major drug cartels,†says a member of the intelligence network of the Israel Police. “Criminals are measured by their ability to traffic huge quantities of drugs and today there are several Israeli criminals who can traffic impressive quantities around the world. Israeli drug criminals have a good reputation in the world because they meet several of the criteria in the field and because Israelis have global connections.â€
The fact that a number of Israeli criminals have immigrated to other countries can be a boon to their drug business. “Israeli criminals never touch the drugs they traffic,†the police official continues, “they merely serve as middlemen. They open a ‘cashbox,’ namely, a shipping container holding several hundred kilograms of cocaine and they know how to find investors to fund the shipment.â€
Recent police reports include references to such a “cashbox†that was opened and was on its way to Australia; a number of Israeli criminals were involved in this deal. Not very long ago, members of an international cocaine trafficking network were arrested by the Israel Police’s International and Serious Crimes Unit. Some of the members of the ring were Israeli expatriates who were formerly identified with the criminal organization headed by Israeli crime boss Yitzhak Abergil.
In 2008, a major international smuggling ring was put out of business by Israeli law enforcement agents. Over 1.5 tons of cocaine were shipped in containers to Israel and other destinations. Moshe Elgrably, an escaped Israeli criminal and a number of the members of the ring were apprehended in Peru, Spain and Israel. The estimated value of the contraband in the container was NIS 2 billion (over half a billion dollars). Yoram Elal, someone who had close connections with the Abergil crime family and who, according to police estimates, was a major Israeli drug dealer, primarily trafficking in ecstasy but also in cocaine, was arrested in Brazil in 2011 after being placed on the wanted list by the international police organization, Interpol.
However, even when the police can place their hands on drug shipments, they do not always know the identity of the people behind the shipments. For instance, two years ago, in the spring of 2011, on the eve of the Passover, a container arrived at the port of Ashdod with 250 kg. of cocaine; the police are still waiting to see who will come to claim the container. Or, for instance, the destination of two shipments of 130 kg. and 139 kg. respectively of cocaine that were seized in containers holding coffee beans and which were sent from Colombia in 2008 and 2010 remains a mystery to this very day.
In Israel, a special unit has been set up in the national headquarters of the Israel Police whose mandate is the maintaining of ongoing intelligence and operational contacts with other police forces around the world for the purpose of more effectively waging the war on drugs. It has long been thought that local police forces are the most fruitful source of intelligence pertinent to this war.
In many cases, the absence of a budget for the global war on drugs has forced drug enforcement agencies to become highly creative. For example, there is no funding available for monitoring communications with distant courtiers over a period of several months. “Today,†observes the high-ranking official in the intelligence network of the Israel Police, “we work with police forces all over the world on cases that involve not only Israel but also other countries. The information flows constantly between the police forces of different countries. Not only does the Israel Police have nothing to be ashamed of in connection with the war on cocaine trafficking; it has a lot to be proud of.â€
Over the years, cocaine continues to be the most lucrative of all illicit drugs. A kilogram of cocaine costs between $3,000 and $5,000 in South America. Nonetheless, people who are strangers to local drug dealers in South America will find it very hard to purchase “only†one kilogram. In many cases, South American drug dealers will prefer to hand over small-time buyers of this variety to the police in return for the latter’s turning a blind eye to major drug deals. Additionally, people interested in buying drugs sometimes find that, after they have paid for the drug, the drug dealer just disappears with their money. In this way, drug dealers maintain an exclusive relationship with crime organizations. But how are things managed when local drug dealers agree to sell a small quantity of coke to a buyer? One method is to hide the material in a variety of hiding places, some of which are highly unusual – ranging from briefcases and books to memorial candles and even gravestones. The drug can be concealed in solid or liquid form. Another method, which is just as common, is to employ couriers who can conceal the drug inside their body.
Recently, the Tel Aviv Central Unit of the Israel Police arrested a number of drug couriers. One of them was a 60-year-old Colombian who was hired by a drug dealer in his native country to serve as a drug courier to Israel for $8,000. When the courier arrived at the Olympia Hotel on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv, Yaakov Tzaadi, 34, of Rishon Letzion, was waiting to receive the shipment. However, as the two were making the exchange, detectives attached to the drug squad of the Tel Aviv Central Unit burst into their hotel room, promptly arresting the two.
“On flights from Spain, which are also connecting flights from South America,†points out A., a senior official with the drugs and money laundering enforcement unit in the customs division of the Israel Tax Authority, “you will almost always find cocaine in the possession of one of the passengers.†This statement holds true for all of Europe, and Israel, he notes, “is no exception.â€
Superintendent Naom Deshati, commander of the 747 unit of the Israel Police branch at David Ben-Gurion International Airport, says that some 13 million passengers pass through the airport annually. “You can bet your bottom dollar,†he observes, “that we do not have the capacity for checking each and every one of them. Although we do not know whether there has been any increase in cocaine use, we do know that there has been an increase in the number of drug shipment seizures.â€
The Colombian courier arrested in a Tel Aviv hotel perfectly fits the profile of the classic courier who carries the drug within his or her body: a South American of little means who is exploited by local gangsters.
For anywhere between $1,000 and $8,000, these couriers agree to transfer the cocaine to a target country. In most cases, the drug dealers fill condoms with cocaine and the courier inserts the filled condom into his or her body through one of his orifices – mouth, anus or vagina. The largest quantity of cocaine ever discovered inside a courier’s body was 2.5 kg. Last year, a commercial airliner traveling the route between Peru and Israel landed the Ben-Gurion Airport with a dead passenger. Only after the corpse had been taken to hospital and an autopsy performed, was it discovered that a condom filled with 12 gm. of cocaine had burst in his abdomen.
Only last week, two suspected couriers who were arrested immediately upon their arrival in Israel were brought before the district court in Lod. District Court Judge Yaakov Spesser took pains to point out that the accused persons were “at the very bottom of the hierarchical pyramid of drug trafficking.†He said that couriers in this category are “pitiful human beings, who are usually illiterate, nearly penniless and unaware of the nature of the crime in which they have become involved. They are exploited by people who tempt them with a cash reward. Sometimes their exploiters deceive them and do not even pay them when the job is done.â€
In January 1978, Major General Moshe Tiomkin, then commander of the Israel Police’s Tel Aviv District, summoned the editors of all the media in Israel in order to show them the nature of the uncompromising war being waged against drugs. He showed the editors the specially trained dogs recruited for this purpose and declared proudly that police in Tel Aviv seized in the previous year 130 gm. of cocaine. Many years later, in that same district, the commander of the Tel Aviv Central District of the Israel Police announced this week the seizure of 17 kg. of that very same drug.
Wow this could be big, the Public Prosecution must provide more information about the deal made with Sonja in the trial against Holleeder. The prosecution must answer the question whether (and if so which) agreements have been made about the content of its statements.The court finds that the reliability of Sonja about her role as suspect of money laundering of her husband Cor van Hout and the sale of the Achterdam to third parties is important. Witnesses Sonja and Astrid Holleeder stopped in July 2016 with answers to questions about the legacy of Cor van Hout. Only from February 2017 did the ladies answer questions about this to the examining judge. Their story then turned out to differ from previous statements. The attorneys of Holleeder think their story is still very unbelievable and point out that the FIOD investigation concludes that the prostitution houses were not bought by Rob Grifhorst (as the ladies say) but by Johan 'De Hakkelaar' V. and Bertus H..
@doggystyle: The guy that first punched him is called "Meda" translated to "Bear".There is a long story behind why they beat him up,which i will probably write in few years,since all this guys are still around and i am pretty close in real life to all of them.Wouldn't be smart idea to post stuff here lol
Well did Zoran Jaksic kill this "Bear" afterwards? Cause if he didnt what kind of Big shot would he be ?
The Spanish police have detained a drug gang in the Basque Country that was led from the Netherlands. The newspaper El DiarÃo Vasco reports that five suspects have been arrested in the towns of Irun and Azkoitia, the drugs included hashish, heroin and cocaine.
@doggystyle: Nope, all people u see on this video are still alive today, and it was back in 2015. I agree that attacking,even disrespecting an italian mafia boss would result in all of them getting killed. Few years ago in Palermo, there was a clash between two man,nothing serious,but one of them is cousin of a boss.Man was gunned down just hours after the accident in broad daylight in front of cafe. There is a video of clash and him being gunned down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-5dWLrNSlE
@Hollander: I never even heard for that,do you know the exact reason why did he come here, or it was just for fun ? I have no idea who could waited him here,or with who did he met,at 2001 everything was controlled by zemunski clan. Edit: actually it could be that he met with zemunski clan,because todays leader of zemunski clan , Luka Bojovic did murders for Holleeder,they have same enemy.
Yes Bojovic and those guys. We know he was there because of wiretaps. Between 2001 and 2006 WH became close to them, maybe via Paja? He also visited Sarajevo.
It looks like it was Paja,at that time Zemunski Clan was led by Dusan Spasojevic who is considered to be most powerful boss in the Balkans of all time.
Bojovic also got 500,000 euros from Holleeder to murder Paja,because Paja started working with Joca. Also murder of Srdjan Miranovic,who was dutch citizen murdered in Montenegro in 2006,order came from Holleeder too and murder was carried out by zemunski clan.
I had no idea that Holleeder have links with most powerful organzied crime members in Balkans.
It looks like it was Paja,at that time Zemunski Clan was led by Dusan Spasojevic who is considered to be most powerful boss in the Balkans of all time.
Bojovic also got 500,000 euros from Holleeder to murder Paja,because Paja started working with Joca. Also murder of Srdjan Miranovic,who was dutch citizen murdered in Montenegro in 2006,order came from Holleeder too and murder was carried out by zemunski clan.
I had no idea that Holleeder have links with most powerful organzied crime members in Balkans.
There was another guy Milos P. any idea?
Stanley Hillis did dozens of armed robberies with Arkan in the 70s and 80s he escaped from prison three times, in the late 90s he came in conflict with Jocic. Hillis always had armed yugos around him.
It looks like it was Paja,at that time Zemunski Clan was led by Dusan Spasojevic who is considered to be most powerful boss in the Balkans of all time.
Bojovic also got 500,000 euros from Holleeder to murder Paja,because Paja started working with Joca. Also murder of Srdjan Miranovic,who was dutch citizen murdered in Montenegro in 2006,order came from Holleeder too and murder was carried out by zemunski clan.
I had no idea that Holleeder have links with most powerful organzied crime members in Balkans.
There was another guy Milos P. any idea?
Stanley Hillis did dozens of armed robberies with Arkan in the 70s and 80s he escaped from prison three times, in the late 90s he came in conflict with Jocic. Hillis always had armed yugos around him.
Milos P. = Milos Petrovic nickname Bata. He was the main link between Holleeder and Luka Bojovic and whole zemunski clan. He was the most trusted Holleeders man.
Milos Petrovic was caught on tape calling Luka Bojovic and telling him:" Holleeder said that Srdjan Miranovic talked , and now he is our enemy , there is nothing else we can do,write down that name and take care of it. " Srdjan Miranovic was best man of Joca and he never talked as far as i know.
Milos Petrovic eventually talked and gave police whereabouts of Luka Bojovic , leading to Bojovic arrest in Spain. Together with Bojovic , Vlada Budala trasnslated to Crazy Vlada , was arrested too ,he was the only one from original zemunski clan that escaped arrest after murder of prime minister of Serbia.
Compared to other European countries, then yeah we could be considered a Narco State..
Compared to certain Central and South American countries? Fùgget about it!!!
Of course we are not a 'bananenrepubliek', but the definition of narco state is where large-scale production of and / or trade in narcotics takes place.
Of course we are not a 'bananenrepubliek', but the definition of narco state is where large-scale production of and / or trade in narcotics takes place.
That is true, but I'm still of the opinion that we should take the epithet 'Narco State' with a grain of blow
After the interception of 4,500 kilos of cocaine in the port of Antwerp last weekend, the police said Monday in Oss four men and two women were arrested. They came to the container after it was delivered. The suspects are a man (42) and a woman (45) from Uden, two men (42 and 61) from Oss, a woman (39) from Nuland and a man with Colombian nationality (27). The sea container was loaded with bananas and came from Colombia.
probably a consortium italians, dutch etc. antwerp port is run by italians mostly spain is the major entry of cocaine in europe but spanish group are very weak, mostly is run by others (italian mafia in primis)
Netherlands Narcostate and the Hypocrisy PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY MARCH 3, 2018 14:03
As a result of the reports about "The Netherlands Narcostate" and the wish of the Dutch criminal investigation department for more millions to combat drug trafficking, NRC columnist Folkert Jensma is worried . He finds it hypocrisy and blabla.
Politicians and police like to talk about 'undermining' crime, which in Brabant controls Mexican neighborhoods, and about the high number of liquidations.
Jensma:
(...) can we stop the ruin of rhetoric about drug crime, causing the Netherlands to 'deteriorate'? By which I do not put the liquidations or the corruption of working class areas by the cultivation of cannabis into perspective. I take that seriously - there has been a professional, successful international drug sector in the Netherlands that handles hundreds of millions. And no, that is not good for the Netherlands. (...)
However, this thriving cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamine and cocaine sector also has a cause. And that is that we find the consumption of those products great. We do not care. Drugs are not seen socially as an abuse but as a stimulant, the consumption of which is widely tolerated. When Nieuwsuurvorige week portrayed the angry men of the detective, Spuiten & Slikken was on the other channel, a publicly funded lifestyle / consumer program in which fresh young people tell us what pills x or y do to you. So do not make me laugh. The Netherlands Narcostate is the same as the Netherlands Fiscal Paradise.
It fits well with us. (...) We think that's all fine: the cash register is ringing. Spraying and swallowing, blowing and earning, XTC and Airbnb, liquidations and dance festivals - it's one big mess. We must therefore stop indignant peering through a straw to organized crime. We do it ourselves. And it does not interest us. Otherwise, the courts in Brabant had already had drug chambers, the Public Prosecution Service tripled its sentence, the police sent a brigade of detectives to the south, Amsterdam prohibited the sale of cannabis to foreigners (as elsewhere) and only control officials arrived at the Red Light District. . For their work then.
On Monday Astrid Holleeder has stated under oath before the court of Amsterdam that she recently found recordings of conversations with Willem Holleeder. According to her they have surfaced after 'two moves'. It involves fifteen conversations. Astrid Holleeder is known to have made many recordings of conversations with her brother in the two years before her brother was arrested in December 2014. Last spring, during a questioning with the examining magistrate, the question was raised as to whether there were any more. She did not answer at that time. The Public Prosecution Service also announced that after informing Astrid Holleeder it appeared that there was nothing left. Astrid Holleeder said it was possible to consider that there were more conversations. One of the conversations would tell how Holleeder was talking with Astrid about Holleeder's fear that Dino Soerel would make statements about him. The Public Prosecution Service thinks that Soerel and Holleeder have committed murders together. The question why she - as a lawyer - lost sight of these apparently high-profile tapes is getting bigger.
Toodoped wrote about the Dutch in Chicago I can imagine there were also a few in early New York. After all the city was founded by the Dutch.
By the late 1950�s, 90% of the hauling firms in the Windy City were controlled by the Dutch population which became know as the �Dutch Mafia�. They were not some bloodthirsty criminal organization but the thing was that they kept the business among their own people. Some sources say that back in the old days the Dutchmen had the garbage business in their blood and they controlled it since the late 1920�s. During that period, the Dutch scavengers formed an association to regulate the whole business and also eliminate any possible competition, which was known as the West Side Garbage Association. The members decided not to compete with each other and traded accounts to concentrate their routes for greater efficiency and by the 1959, the association changed its name to Chicago and Suburban Refuse Disposal Association. Known Dutch families such as the Huizengas or the Van Tholens controlled 90% of the garbage business in Chicago and profited with over 20 million dollars a year. I believe that the Dutch control over the waste business was one of the reasons on which the Outfit never had the same satisfaction. But that didn�t last long because the lucrative idea lured the Outfit like a shark following the smell of blood, but in this case it was the smell of cash.
In the Netherlands, emigrants to the US and Canada had a bad name for a long time. With the word 'emigrant', many nineteenth-century people thought of a half-criminal who had no sense of goodness and no grain of patriotism. The Dutch also had a sense of superiority lol.
The recorded conversation with Willem Holleeder would show that Sjaak Burger controlled the motor, which was used in the murder of Heineken kidnapper Cor van Hout and Robert ter Haak. Holleeder confessed that according to his sister in one of the many recorded conversations. The other rider of the motor would be Jesse Remmers, who is sentenced to life imprisonment in the passage process. According to the OM, Willem Holleeder is the client of the murder.
Sjaak Burger was convicted in the appeal proceedings to 5.5 years. He was shot in his head in Panama City in January 2015, exactly twelve years after the murder of Cor van Hout, but survived the attack.
The man who was liquidated on Thursday night in the Piet Mondriaanstraat in Amsterdam is the 46-year-old criminal Goran Tasic from former Yugoslavia. It seems to be a settlement in the drug environment, Het Parool reports. Tasic has no record here but is known in Sweden where he lived for years.
The Serbian gangster would have been involved in armed conflicts in his native country. From the many publications that can be found about him, a picture emerges that he at least invested in a football club, Vranje Futbalski Club. The Serb appears to have built up a considerable criminal record. Tasic was said to have been involved in a liquidation attempt on a certain Dragoljub Djordjevic, who, however, remained unharmed during a shootout. An older article mentions an extortion attempt by Tasic of one Radoslav Mojsilović. In this case, Tasic would have tried to strip his victim eight million dinars. Tasic would have been in custody for 16 months. In 2003 Tasic would have attempted a murder on one Zoran Popovic nicknamed 'Popa', and in Belgrade several bullets were fired at his target. Hereafter, Tasic would have been detained for two years.
It was reported that Burger, when he was shot in '15, would have been in Panama in connection with cocaine trafficking, in which the Rotterdam-based mob boss Henk Ebben and his son would have been involved. One of the wildest rumors circulating in the Amsterdam underworld is that justice has picked up the weak Burger in order to let him 'flip' into a crown witness.
The identity of the mysterious ''Omniscient'' (Allesweter) is finally known. According to Panorama, Crimesite.nl and Elsevier it's Maruf 'Paja' M., longtime high level member of the Joego-Maffia. He allegedly ran a kind of employment agency in Holland for career criminals from the Balkans.
The Serbian gangster would have been involved in armed conflicts in his native country. From the many publications that can be found about him, a picture emerges that he at least invested in a football club, Vranje Futbalski Club. The Serb appears to have built up a considerable criminal record. Tasic was said to have been involved in a liquidation attempt on a certain Dragoljub Djordjevic, who, however, remained unharmed during a shootout. An older article mentions an extortion attempt by Tasic of one Radoslav Mojsilović. In this case, Tasic would have tried to strip his victim eight million dinars. Tasic would have been in custody for 16 months. In 2003 Tasic would have attempted a murder on one Zoran Popovic nicknamed 'Popa', and in Belgrade several bullets were fired at his target. Hereafter, Tasic would have been detained for two years.
Here in Serbia in last few years ,he was legal,he was considered businessman.He was also financier of main political party in his city. He did 3 years in 2011 for attempted murder on Zoran Popovic.He was also one of the shooters that tried to kill Aleksandar Dimitrijevic back in 2009.
The identity of the mysterious ''Omniscient'' (Allesweter) is finally known. According to Panorama, Crimesite.nl and Elsevier it's Maruf 'Paja' M., longtime high level member of the Joego-Maffia. He allegedly ran a kind of employment agency in Holland for career criminals from the Balkans.
Thursday afternoon the 51-year-old Henk Baum was shot dead along the Rijksweg in Schaijk. The car in which the victim was found was a Porsche Panamera. Baum, who lived at the Loosven 'traveller' camp in Nistelrode, is known by the police. In 2014 a raid was made at his car wreck in Oss. There were weapons and ammunition found. He was also detained three years ago for threatening an alderman.
That new crown witness for the government, Nabil B., can really hurt this guy..
I wonder if this pentito, will perhaps create a domino effect and cause more guys to flip. He's the first turncoat from the Mocro-Mafia and you know the Dutch saying; when one sheep is over the dam, more will follow
The police and Public Prosecutor prevented a convicted murderer from escaping while traveling to or from the court in Amsterdam, the police said in a statement. The murderer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the shooting of Souhail Laachir, at a dance party at the Maritime Museum. According to the police, there was a plan to liberate I. during his transport for his appeal.
The appeal of Surailie I. would serve in Amsterdam tomorrow. According to the police, the preparations for the escape would have been at an advanced stage. In the prison where I. is stuck, various mobile phones were found that had been thrown over the wall. The police suspect that they were meant for I.
Souhail Laachir, aka De Lange, was shot in May 2013 on a crowded dance floor with 6 bullets. The Public Prosecutor's Office demanded 25 years against Surailie I. for murder. The court sentenced 15 years in prison for manslaughter. Souhail Laachir was considered the accountant of Benaouf A. For the latter, an escape attempt was also thwarted.
Law enforcement isn't messing around this time!!! Normally it takes weeks for DNA results to come back, but like I said before these guys crossed a line and the full wrath of the entire government is coming down on them..
After the liquidation of Reduan B., the brother of key witness Nabil B., the Public Prosecution Service asked Italian experts for advice. This has been confirmed by the national prosecutor's office after reports from VPRO's Bureau Buitenland and the NOS .
The Public Prosecutor spoke with, among others, the Italian investigating judge Nicola Gratteri. That is one of the magistrates who only do the most daring Mafia investigations. Discussions were also held with other Mafia experts. According to Gratteri, the Netherlands should quickly introduce a special anti-Mafia legislation.
This gives the police and the judiciary more opportunities to use witnesses to isolate individuals and companies that have been convicted of mafia practices. It is punishable to do business with or to work together, even for people who do not do anything criminal.
'Where's the f***ing numbers?' How Liverpool gang's Dutch cocaine plot ended in panic
Large quantities of cocaine are imported with the knowledge of police officers of the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI) Netherlands. That says a criminal informant of the TCI in an exclusive interview with EenVandaag. The passage of drugs has been strictly forbidden since the IRT affair in the 1990s.
The informant is an Amsterdam drug criminal, "Paul". He lives in Colombia. There he is affiliated with a large drug cartel in Medellin. At the same time, he has been giving detailed tips to the secret police TCI for years about containers with coke that are being transported from South America to the Netherlands.
Together with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Dutch police in Rotterdam organized the thirty-fifth International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) from 10 to 12 April. At this international conference, drug fighters from 120 countries come together to network, learn from each other and make mutual agreements.
Polish-Dutch drug gang rolled up in the southern Netherlands last month, 14 people were arrested. 7 arrests were made in Poland. Seven people were also arrested in the Netherlands. The gang would act on a large scale in chemicals intended for the production of synthetic drugs. Several firearms were also found at the raids. The suspects in the Netherlands were arrested in Eindhoven, Venlo, Zaltbommel and Weert. They are all suspected of involvement in the production of synthetic drugs. The following cases were found and confiscated: four drug labs, including an MDMA lab, a PMK-conversion lab, a BMK-conversion lab and an amphetamine lab; 67 tons of chemicals; over one hundred kilos of MDMA crystals and 57 liters of MDMA oil; 1000 liters BMK and 32 liters PMK; three vans and a stolen car and seven E-bikes; seven supporters with hardware for the construction of drug labs. The Polish police arrested seven suspects on 17 April and consumed 17,500 liters of chemicals, 4 kg of amphetamine and 100,000 euro of cash. In Germany, the police took close to 7,500 liters of chemicals in the vicinity of Osnabrück.
A 24-year-old woman was seriously mistreated in 2017 in her home in Tubbergen. At a quarter to three at night there was a call from suspect Danny M., son of the well-known and in Thailand murdered criminal John Mieremet. He would have kicked and beaten the woman without cause. On Monday M. appears before the judge in Almelo. He is also suspected of assaults in Belgium and Germany.
The Holleeder trial entered a new phase with the first murder case that of his brother-in-law.
'Holleeder not behind murder of Cor van Hout'
His lawyer Janssen presented several scenarios in an extensive plea. With this plea, he wants to achieve that the court cancels Holleeder's pre-trial in the context of the murder case-Van Hout. That does not mean that Holleeder would be released; he is stuck on suspicion of multiple criminal settlements. The court works these cases in a process of many months each.
The Public Prosecution Service will respond to Janssens's plea on 26 June.
The Van Hout / Ter Haak file has a long history, also because there were attacks on Van Hout's life in 1996 and 2000. Police and justice have had suspicions in those cases, but they have remained formally unsolved. Janssen argued that the criminals Sam Klepper and John Mieremet were responsible for the attack in 1996. Klepper and Mieremet were liquidated in 2000 and 2005.
According to Janssen, the history is characterized by an "incredibly complicated interaction in the criminal environment. "The lawyer tried to draw a line in his plea. A large number of criminal names passed by.
PROFESSIONAL DUTCH CANNABIS GROWERS CAUGHT IN RAIDS IN SPAIN 16/06/2018 In Spain, the police rolled up a drug gang and detained several Dutch people in connection with growing weed. One of the suspects would be wanted for murder.
That is what Spanish media write. A total of thirteen people were arrested in the action. Five suspects are from the Netherlands, including the alleged leader of the drug gang.
Research shows that premises were rented in the area of Alicante, where very professional cannabis nurseries were then set up. In the case of raids and searches, a total of 60 kg of weed was found and 3500 plants were seized.
In addition to the weed, the police also found five luxury cars and seized them. The cars are worth about 150,000 euros each.
On Wednesday morning, Emiele Z. (1969) was in court in The Hague for the first time. He is suspected of involvement in the death of heroin trafficker Mustafa Ates. Z. would have strangled Moes Beton, the nickname of Ates. The suspect has also been tapped extensively. For example, telephone conversations were carried out that Z. conducted with his Bulgarian ex-girlfriend, after she had visited the police. In it, the suspect would have said among other things: "I kill many people." OVC conversations have also been included. In one of them, recorded shortly after a broadcast of the television program Opsporing Verzocht, Z. "I have done all the dirty work. I dressed him. I've done most of the work. " In another OVC conversation that took place after many people received a text message from the police, including the suspect, the police hear that Emiele Z. is whispering to a friend about a neck clip. According to the officer, that would fit very well with the scenario that Ates is strangled.
Dennis Martha was a high ranking member of the Martha organization as well. Another one was the Antillean Surailie I. who's know in prison for the murder of Laachir. It seems that the so-called "Mocro mafia war" is actually more a dispute between predominantly Antillean criminals on one side and predominantly Moroccan criminals on the other side - with mostly the Moroccans dropping like flies.
Dennis Martha was a high ranking member of the Martha organization as well. Another one was the Antillean Surailie I. who's know in prison for the murder of Laachir. It seems that the so-called "Mocro mafia war" is actually more a dispute between predominantly Antillean criminals on one side and predominantly Moroccan criminals on the other side - with mostly the Moroccans dropping like flies.
Pakistani drug lord Fouad Abbas once stated that two groups run narcotics here the `Blacks` and the ´Gypsies´.
The office building of the weekly magazine Panorama in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk was shot with an anti-tank weapon last night. The incident took place at 23.05. There were no casualties during the shooting. However, a window fell and a door was blown out of the building. The rocket launcher was found near the building. It is unclear why the Panorama office has been shot at. The police are still doing research. An arrest team has arrested a suspect tonight. The magazine often reports about organized crime.
German-Dutch drug gang busted PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 09:46
In a joint action by the Customs, the FIOD and the German and Dutch police, 9 suspects were arrested Thursday in Germany. They would be members of an international drugs gang that operated cannabis farms and exported cocaine and amphetamines from the Netherlands to various European countries. In the joint action, raids were made in Rotterdam, Venlo, Duisburg and Meerbusch, among others. In total, almost 20 buildings were searched. A Porsche Panamera, 2 Porsches 911, a Harley-Davidson, 110,000 euro cash and 2 watches worth about 500,000 euro were seized. In one of the searches, the police also ran into a cannabis nursery with just over 400 plants. The investigation into the gang members started in October 2016. In total, it would be 16 people, men and women between the ages of 28 and 62 years. Of these, 9 have now been arrested, including a man from Venlo who was arrested at Düsseldorf airport. Four main suspects would have transported kilos of cocaine and amphetamine from Rotterdam, via Wuppertal in Germany to, among others, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
The office building of the weekly magazine Panorama in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk was shot with an anti-tank weapon last night. The incident took place at 23.05. There were no casualties during the shooting. However, a window fell and a door was blown out of the building. The rocket launcher was found near the building. It is unclear why the Panorama office has been shot at. The police are still doing research. An arrest team has arrested a suspect tonight. The magazine often reports about organized crime.
The suspect is the president of the Chapter Silencio, afdeling Woerden, of Caloh Wagoh MC Main Triad. The MC is linked to the Crips.
The 37-year-old Ricky A. from The Hague is suspected to have ties with a Colombian drug cartel. The man came on the radar after an undercover agent working on another operation came into contact with A. by accident. Ricky A. was arrested last year with his girlfriend. According to the Public Prosecutor, Ricky A. in the Netherlands arranged for shipments of cocaine to be removed from containers. Although there were some tips that A. led a very luxurious life, without having a regular source of income, he only came on the radar of the police in December 2016. A., who thought he was dealing with a drug dealer, told us that he could arrange so-called "rescue teams", who could take out cocaine in the port of Rotterdam and at Schiphol. The police found out that he also made trips to, for example, Madrid and Colombia. All in the service of cocoa trade, according to the Public Prosecution Service that suspects that A. had contacts with the Los Urabeños cartel in South America. The girlfriend of A. was aware of everything, according to the prosecutor. Among other things, she had contact with a number of co-suspects. And when the police invaded the couple's home, the machine for packing drugs simply stood on the counter. According to the AD, the woman worked with the Bar Association. She has now been fired there.
Holland´s most-wanted in Mexico? The police suspect that Ridouan Taghi and his right hand Saïd Razzouki are in Mexico. That is what Het Parool writes on Monday evening. The investigation team that tries to track down the pair has received dozens of tips about their possible whereabouts.
Hollander do you know which group controls port of amsterdam ? Is it multiple groups or only one ?
Most of cocaine on Balkans are coming from Amsterdam,distribution is controlled by Darko Saric group,they have close ties with 'Ndrangheta. Cocaine is getting thru port of Amsterdam from South America.
Hollander do you know which group controls port of amsterdam ? Is it multiple groups or only one ?
Most of cocaine on Balkans are coming from Amsterdam,distribution is controlled by Darko Saric group,they have close ties with 'Ndrangheta. Cocaine is getting thru port of Amsterdam from South America.
The port over there isn´t that important, Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are the real gateways. Amsterdam is the hub for distribution to the rest of Europe. The guy running the stuff for Saric was Darko T. , of both Montenegrin and Dutch nationality, he was arrested in Amsterdam-West in 2015. No idea who runs it now.
Since 2015 it was taken over by Jakov Kontic,also member of Darko Saric group, he was arrested in Italy in 2012 when police found 25kilos of coke and 400,000 euros in cash. He is married to Luigi Magrini sister,he is influental 'Ndrangheta member in MIlan.
He is close to Joca Amsterdam,he was also close to Srdjan Miranovic,who was killed by orders of Holleeder.
Strax, the Italian mafiosi have a good reputation here, they show themselves as normal, friendly Italians, good at cooking. Police reports show that over 100 mafiosi are currently operating in the country of tulips.
Interesting day at the Holleeder trial, Astrid accused her brother of talking to the police and contacts with a prosecutor. A few years ago, while serving time for extortion Holleeder almost refused to undergo a surgery for a pacemaker because he feared that eavesdropping devices would be installed with him. LOL
Strax, the Italian mafiosi have a good reputation here, they show themselves as normal, friendly Italians, good at cooking. Police reports show that over 100 mafiosi are currently operating in the country of tulips.
I have read a lot of them are owners of italian restaurants in Amsterdam,some of them even work at restaurants. How powerful are local groups there? Most of the time i read about Italians and ex-Yugoslavia being most powerful there and in control. Country with big ports,very well connected,should have some powerful local groups.
The trial against the nose, is now about the second murder case. The murder by hired hitman Namik Abbasov of the underworld banker Willem Endstra. According to public prosecutors, Holleeder first cut out his 'friend' Endstra for tens of millions and then had him murdered - whether or not in collaboration with others.What they see as extortion was according to Holleeder just to ensure that Endstra would pay off his million debts to criminals to prevent Endstra's interest in escalating the case. His criminal rival John Mieremet must have given the murder assignment, according to Holleeder.
Endstra talked to police and he spoke about 'a triumvirate' who ruled the Amsterdam underworld. Holleeder with criminals Dino Soerel and Stanley Hillis (himself gunned down in February 2011 in Amsterdam East). No, said Holleeder, he knew the notorious Stanley Hillis, but wanted to have as little as possible to do with that dangerous man. He would rather have to deal with his own ex-partner Dino Soerel who acted as Hillis' reasonably advanced post, but that does not mean that they were a duo..
A Dutch-Moroccan criminal who is detained in Morocco for the murder of the son of a judge, has appointed the 'Mocro-Mafia head' Ridouan Taghi as the sponsor for the murder of crime blogger Martin Kok. The Public Prosecutor's Office reported yesterday during a pro-forma session in the highly secured court at Schiphol that criminal Anouar 'Zwartkat' B. in Morocco made an important statement about a suspect of the murder of Kok, Ashraf B. (25 ). He denied being responsible in court for the murder of Kok yesterday. In any case, it is the second time that a criminal working for Ridouan Taghi makes a statement about the man who, according to the Public Prosecution Service, ordered several liquidations in the Netherlands. Taghi is the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands and is seen as extremely dangerous and violent.
Marko P. arrested in Amsterdam,is a member of Luka Bojovic's group,they are the one that killed people close to Joca Amsterdam by orders of Holleeder. Police searched apartments and found 4kg of heroin and 1.700.000 euros in cash.Also Veljko B. was arrested in Antwerp,also member of Luka Bojovic's group. Hollander if media there follows this case,please post articles.
Strax, the police made the arrests in the investigation into the murder of Goran Tasić this year, at the home of B. in Amsterdam they found 1.5 million euros in cash.
Veljko B. called Votka is son of Yugoslavia ambassador in Moscow,Marko Puškić was member of Suvad Musić group,which were one of the major heroin dealers in Balkans.
The Yugo's definitely aren't played out in Amsterdam so it seems.
They also appear in the Holleeder trial, the nose has been blaming them for a lot of the violence. Should be interesting when Joca Jocic will be out on parole next year.
Most criminals invest in amateur football clubs in Gelderland and Noord-Brabant to make a good impression. This is shown by research by Tilburg University on behalf of the TV program Nieuwsuur.
In the Netherlands one in three municipalities has to deal with 'infiltration' of criminals in amateur football clubs. Large places more than smaller ones. The wrong benefactors sponsor the youth training, pay players or place advertising boards.
According to Tilburg University, funds can easily be laundered or mixed with legal amounts through foundations. The chance of inspection by the tax authorities is rather small.
According to the Public Prosecutor, members from the entourage of murdered drug boss Gwenette Martha are behind the liquidation of criminal Alex Gillis. Macho or Aleki, as Gillis was also called, was shot dead on 20 February 2014 in Zaandam. Justice thinks that Gökhan C. (30) and Ilias K. (30) organized the liquidation.
Two Dutch people were arrested on Thursday for the British Southwest coast with a sailing yacht full of cocaine. It would be 2,000 kilos of coke and according to British media the cargo would have a street value of more than 200 million euros. According to the Coast Guard, it is the second largest cocaine catch in the United Kingdom ever.
Two Dutch people have been the victims of violence in Barcelona. One of them was shot dead, the other was wounded. The Spanish police found the two in a car in the Sant Martà district, the men both had a firearm and were injured. Despite resuscitation attempts, one of the men succumbed to his injuries. The investigation is still in full swing. The two would have stepped into their car on Sunday night after a pub visit in the neighborhood of the Rambla de Poblenou. That had a German license plate. They were less than a hundred yards away when they were shot by one or more people on a white motorcycle. That engine has not been recovered yet. Spanish media reports that the police assume that it was a dispute between criminal groups.
A 61-year-old Dutchman has been arrested in Venice. He is suspected of involvement in the liquidation of Cuma Ceviz and Rachid Benbouker. Both Dutch were liquidated in the Dominican Republic last summer. Their bodies were found in a burial pit.
On Monday night, 25 service weapons and 450 9 mm cartridges were stolen from a Justice building in Zutphen. It concerns the Walther P99Q NL, since 2012 the official service weapon of the Dutch police. The firearms were stolen from a building of the Transport and Support Department, it provides, among other things, the transport of detainees and prisoners.
THE STRANGE LIFE OF A MURDERER TURNED CRIME BLOGGER Holland is home to a thriving community of journalists and bloggers who cover criminals and the drug trade. Those writers are often targeted by their subjects—and so was Martin Kok.
Victim Beethovenstraat is the Croatian criminal Ivan Serdarusic The Croatian would be a member of a gang and be in real estate.
BY: MARTIJN HAAS August 4, 2018 10:18 Beethovenstraat Het Parool reports today the identity of the Monday-liquidated 62-year-old man in the Beethovenstraat in Amsterdam. It was about Ivan Serdarusic. Not a well-known name in the media, but according to the newspaper, he belongs to a group of criminals who have been under fire for some time. Some members of this gang would have been liquidated earlier.
Conflict Serdarusic, who lived in both the Netherlands and Croatia, would have been active in real estate. On the internet you can find a number of sites with his name on which Croatian real estate is offered. He would have had a conflict in the past with another criminal about the legality of a child that his wife would have had with another man.
Drug trafficking A well-informed source reports Panorama that Serdarusic was mainly active in the drug trade. He would have been 'ripped' from a party of drugs, and had plans to punish those he thought of this. Apparently his enemies were ahead of him and they killed him before he could act himself. The gang to which the Croat belongs has been the interest of the investigative services for some time.
Shooter The police are still looking for the gunman. He has carried out the liquidation almost nonchalantly, it seems. In daylight he shot down Serdarusic, while he enjoyed a consumption inside the restaurant Ferelli's on the Beethovenstraat. The archer, who is small in size, and quite muscular and 'sun-tanned', probably walked there through Amsterdam-Zuid in the direction of Museumplein. Witnesses would have seen him at that last location. During this flight, the perpetrator not only left his firearm, a pistol with a silencer. There is also a beige hat that probably belonged to him, a black laptop bag, a glove and a white-blue shirt. Items dropped so carelessly that they may also have been placed on the escape route as a distraction.
During a shooting at Koffiehuis Het Kalf in the Kalversbos in Delft a man was shot dead Tuesday morning. It is the notorious Delft criminal Karel Pronk. The shooting incident took place around 11.40 and according to witnesses three or five times would have been shot. According to emergency district 8, the victim was still resuscitated by ambulance personnel on the pavement next to the coffee shop, but the man died from his injuries. The victim would have arrived with his motorcycle at the coffee shop, after which he was attacked. Karel Pronk was also called the 'The Hague Holleeder'. He was involved in prison escapes in the past and was convicted of murder, robbery and drug trafficking. For example, in the early 90s he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of the murder of an orchid grower from Rijswijk. After his release in 2007 he moved to Spain, but he was still active as an entrepreneur in Delft. Then he was convicted several times for drug and violent crimes. The shooter is still fugitive. There is still nothing clear about the cause of the shooting. The police have removed the crime scene and are looking for witnesses.
Jamal M. who was shot dead two weeks in Barcelona would be on a hitlist. The list was intercepted in South America by US intelligence services. The potential client may be Ridouan Taghi, Holland´s most wanted fugitive.
In the car were persons related to the mocro maffia.
A vehicle has exploded in Puerto Banús (Marbella) shortly before 8:30 pm this Sunday, according to the Emergency Service 112 of Malaga. The explosion of the car , an Audi Q7, has occurred at the entrance to the port. As reported by the Emergency 112 service, the four occupants have managed to get out of the vehicle before it started to burn due to the explosion of the battery. No injuries have been recorded and in a matter of 20 minutes the car has been completely burnt.
Last weekend five Dutch people were caught on the Spanish island of Mallorca during the smuggling of 300 kilos of cocaine to Mallorca. The drugs were loaded on a luxury motor yacht HCH-X, according to Spanish customs. The customs boarded the yacht 27 kilometers off the coast of Ibiza. According to customs, the group used Mallorca as a logistics center for their cocaine business. The Spanish study was done in collaboration with Europol and started in 2016 after the Spanish customs intercepted a ship with drugs. The motor yacht registered in Gibraltar picked up cocaine from other ships in the Mediterranean and brought it to the Spanish mainland.
Last weekend five Dutch people were caught on the Spanish island of Mallorca during the smuggling of 300 kilos of cocaine to Mallorca. The drugs were loaded on a luxury motor yacht HCH-X, according to Spanish customs. The customs boarded the yacht 27 kilometers off the coast of Ibiza. According to customs, the group used Mallorca as a logistics center for their cocaine business. The Spanish study was done in collaboration with Europol and started in 2016 after the Spanish customs intercepted a ship with drugs. The motor yacht registered in Gibraltar picked up cocaine from other ships in the Mediterranean and brought it to the Spanish mainland.
The owner of the yacht is a 54 year old man from Schagen a key suspect in a large money laundering investigation. Dutch authorities seized 38 office buildings and houses, kilos gold, watches, a Harley Davidson and cash.
The owner of the yacht is a 54 year old man from Schagen a key suspect in a large money laundering investigation. Dutch authorities seized 38 office buildings and houses, kilos gold, watches, a Harley Davidson and cash.
The owner of the yacht is a 54 year old man from Schagen a key suspect in a large money laundering investigation. Dutch authorities seized 38 office buildings and houses, kilos gold, watches, a Harley Davidson and cash.
A man from the Netherlands was shot dead in Peru. That happened Monday in Miraflores, a rich suburb of the capital Lima. The municipality of Miraflores says it is a settlement. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, the man was 62 years old. The murder happened when the victim arrived at his home. Two archers came riding on a motorbike. The co-driver opened the fire. The Dutchman was hit three times in his head. The mayor of, where the murder was committed, says on Twitter that the Dutchman was imprisoned in the notorious prison Sarita Colonia. It is not known why he would have been convicted. Foreign Affairs does not make any statements about this.
'Turnover synthetic drugs higher than AH' PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2018 10:56
Criminals have produced at least 18.9 billion euros worth of ecstasy and amphetamine in the Netherlands last year. That is in a study by the Police Academy. The majority of that money goes abroad. In the Netherlands, producers and traders would convert at least 3 to 5 billion.
Albert Heijn The researchers note that these are very conservative estimates and that the real turnover is higher. It is the first time that the scale of production and the sale of synthetic drugs has been calculated so extensively. The calculated turnover is higher than the annual turnover of companies such as Philips and Albert Heijn.
600 million What the profits are, according to the researchers, is more difficult to estimate. Producers would have earned over 600 million euros, and those who trade in synthetic drugs make more profit. Distributors and dealers abroad probably earn the most. The majority of these Dutch drugs are sold abroad.
China The researchers write that the government does not effectively combat this production and trade. There are too few detectives to do research. The chance of being caught, especially for producers and traders who are higher up in the hierarchy, is low. The punishments given in the Netherlands are relatively low according to the researchers. All in all, the Netherlands is a good location for producers, partly because of the good logistic possibilities.
Imports of raw materials from, in particular, China are not sufficiently controlled. There is little diplomatic pressure to do anything about it.
I know the Moroccans and the Irish as well as assorted criminals from the Dutch underworld (bikers, kampers...) weren't too happy with Martin Kok, but I'm curious about what he did to piss off the Scottish as well.
I know the Moroccans and the Irish as well as assorted criminals from the Dutch underworld (bikers, kampers...) weren't too happy with Martin Kok, but I'm curious about what he did to piss off the Scottish as well.
FBI and DEA were investigating them these are serious guys.
I know the Moroccans and the Irish as well as assorted criminals from the Dutch underworld (bikers, kampers...) weren't too happy with Martin Kok, but I'm curious about what he did to piss off the Scottish as well.
FBI and DEA were investigating them these are serious guys.
Definitely. I don't see much of a "downfall" to be honest. Glasgow is like Liverpool or Dublin: a revolving door. Once a certain gangland figure is down, there's always another one waiting to pick up.
The Amsterdam criminal investigation department takes into account that the attack with a knife on a man on Tuesday morning at the spy shop Spy City was a targeted attack. The victim is an employee of the shop. The 31-year-old man who is stabbed from behind is Sander de L. from Alkmaar. He has been seriously injured. Remarkable is that this Sander was the man, who directly delivered eavesdropping and security equipment to Astrid Holleeder. She recorded conversations with her brother Willem Holleeder with the equipment.
There were reports about Holleeder having talks with a few NLS-connected criminals. A hit like this - albeit a botched one - doesn't sound too far off in that case. Though usually the NLS seem to be a bit more thorough in their hits than what happened here.
The Gypsy King spend many years in the EBI the only extra secure prison here, years ago there was a plan by Zeljko 'Arkan' Raznatovic to free him by helicopter.
There were reports about Holleeder having talks with a few NLS-connected criminals. A hit like this - albeit a botched one - doesn't sound too far off in that case. Though usually the NLS seem to be a bit more thorough in their hits than what happened here.
They arrested three suspects. Even if it has nothing to do with Holleeder, it will have an effect on Astrid and her sister. Those spy shops do business with a lot of crooks.
I agree it´s a shaky case. It wouldn´t be the first time LE suffers from tunnel vision. Let´s hope Kobus makes it to the appeal, because he has lung cancer.
They've always had a hard-on for Kobus. He was being described as "the most dangerous guy in the Netherlands" for years and years. Now he's not a man to be fucked with, but it's not like he was putting hits out on everyone and everything.
John Wassink had quite a few nutters running around in his entourage. They chopped up a Belgian frat boy pot dealer just as a show of force. There are probably many others reasons for having Wassink killed instead of a petty fight with the daughter of Kobus.
They've always had a hard-on for Kobus. He was being described as "the most dangerous guy in the Netherlands" for years and years. Now he's not a man to be fucked with, but it's not like he was putting hits out on everyone and everything.
John Wassink had quite a few nutters running around in his entourage. They chopped up a Belgian frat boy pot dealer just as a show of force. There are probably many others reasons for having Wassink killed instead of a petty fight with the daughter of Kobus.
He became a top target after he did business with Desi Bouterse and the murder of Helio Stewart in 1993.
Arrests for shooting man Hoensbroek 52 min ago in the Netherlands
HOENSBROEK - The police arrested two men on suspicion of involvement in a fatal shooting incident in Hoensbroek in Limburg in early August. A 45-year-old man from Hoensbroek and a 25-year-old man from Born were arrested Friday night, the police reported Saturday. A 49-year-old resident of Hoensbroek was attacked on August 2 at the door of his home in Akerstraat Noord. Health workers found him badly injured in the street, but the victim could not be saved.
Former No Surrender world captain Henk Kuipers has been transferred to the EBI (Extra Secure Prison) in Vught. This confirms his lawyer Roy van der Wal. An anonymous tip was received by the police that there would be a risk of a flight.
The court in Amsterdam started today after a summer break of several months with the 31st session in the criminal proceedings against Willem Holleeder.
Two mocro gangsters Abdelhamid A. (28) alias "Frog" and Hicham M. (23) from Amsterdam were arrrested for the assassination of the 46-year-old Colombian APC in Spain. The attack in Mijas happened on August 19, 2016. His girlfriend, also of Colombian nationality, was seriously injured by five bullets. PC was hit by seven bullets. Another suspect was Mitchell Jansen, who was himself liquidated at the end of 2016 in Colombia. This group of criminals counts the police to the group of Benaouf A. That group was involved in a feud with the group of Gwenette Martha (shot dead in 2014).
In Eindhoven a man was shot dead in his car on Saturday night, the police reported. The police think they know who it is, but have not yet revealed the identity of the victim.
The group of nine men who in October last year tried to free crime boss Benaouf Adaoui from the prison after hijacking a helicopter, is facing the judge today. The group is suspected of attempting the hijacking and attempt to free someone from the prison (armed). Abdelghafour L. was the last suspect who was arrested. He reported to the police last Wednesday.
The Public Prosecution Service argued Thursday in the court bunker in Amsterdam-Osdorp that it is Willem Holleeder who is the man who was extorting real estate trader Willem Endstra and who had him killed in 2004. He sent 'murder commandos', according to justice.
This is the one murder which will send him to life in prison, pretty strong evidence. The other killings i`m not so sure.
Human trafficker Lino P. tortured vulnerable women for years and forced them to prostitution. After his trial he managed to escape in November last year. He fled to Curaçao, where he was known as a dj and breeder of fighting dogs. The island appears to be a refuge for fugitive criminals. If it is up to Dutch justice, that comes to an end.
Come on H, I'm sorry but I just can't believe that Kimbo Slice was some kind of Gorrila pimpin' women beater. And the man has died not too long ago for chrissake, let his soul rest in peace.. That fuckin' #MeToo Movement has no shame!!! SMH
Originally Posted by Hollander
Human trafficker Lino P. tortured vulnerable women for years and forced them to prostitution. After his trial he managed to escape in November last year. He fled to Curaçao, where he was known as a dj and breeder of fighting dogs. The island appears to be a refuge for fugitive criminals. If it is up to Dutch justice, that comes to an end.
Yeah, of course the imperialistic white man has to come to the island again to hand out justice. Just like they want to do in Turkey, where another innocent and good man is persecuted because of false allegations. This beautiful man, with a heart of pure gold: Saban Baran, has been harassed by this bald headed prick John vd Heuvel for ages now. JUST LEAVE SABAN ALONE!!!!
Lol the dude really looks like a considerably less bulky Kimbo Slice.
The justice system can make all the effort they want, but I don't think there's a type of criminal around that gives less of a fuck than the Antillean criminal. I know a guy - a mate of a mate of mine - who works as a probation officer in the Netherlands. From the stories he tells, it seems there's a distinct pattern when it comes to Antillean criminals (who are still small time when he comes into contact with them). To make a comparison; with Moroccan criminals, a disproportionate amount of them are up to no good petty stuff when they're young, but once they get older - aside from a few ones who turn into big time career criminals - many of them leave the criminal life behind and rehabilitate pretty successfully. With Antillean criminals it's a bit different. Most of them accept their punishment without any problem: they show up at the office always good humored, they fulfill their community service...and about 3 months after fulfilling their community service they get busted for the exact same thing they got caught for before. They show up at the parole office as equally good humored as before, accept their punishment once again without any protest whatsoever...and the cycle's repeated over and over. Many of them keep committing petty crimes and will keep on committing them until they're 65 years old, while another portion of them grow into serious big time career criminals. Considerably few of them rehabilitate; they just don't give a fuck.
True TKJ, they will always be street guys. In my town an 'Antillengemeente' I ran into them all the time. Years ago a pretty big rasta was extorting our coffeeshop swinging around with a gun they are often heavy drinkers and drug users. I knew the guys wife and her family who were dutch, but it was a pretty tense situation.
Couldn't agree more TKJ, although we are of course generalizing a lot, my experiences with a lot of Antillean criminals are nevertheless exactly the way you described it..
A lot your stories btw about your experiences with Moroccans, Antilleans etc. are often very relatable to me. I reckon we grew up in a similar neighborhood and circumstances..
Damn. The situation was eventually resolved, I take?
@BillyBrizzi
I grew up in a former mining area. The communities I got into contact with the most are Italians and Turks and to a slightly lesser extent Greeks and Moroccans. It's very close to the Dutch border, so there's quite a few people from the Netherlands that live here (sometimes for a short period of time).
A certain part of the Antillean criminals have become pretty big though. At least bigger than I ever thought they would become. They move lots of cocaine - a few years ago there was a wok plaza in my area that was used as a front by a couple of Antilleans who lived right over the border. Now with the development of the Curaçao-based gangs that have made inroads into local politics and set up drug smuggling bases in "Antillengemeenten" in the Netherlands as well, one could almost say they have become to the Netherlands what the Yardies were to England in the late 80's/early 90's.
A coffeeshop in the Breestraat in Delft was shot on Sunday morning. The police closed the street for investigation. It is the same shop where a hand grenade exploded in front of the door a few months ago. Delft has recently been plagued by numerous violent incidents. In June, salvos were supposedly fired with automatic weapons at two stores on the Beestenmarkt and the Molslaan. A few weeks earlier, there was already shot with an automatic weapon in the Peperstraat. The criminal Karel Pronk was shot dead at the beginning of August.
After a man was arrested in Amsterdam with 50,000 euros in cash at Schiphol airport in April, the prosecutor's office in Haarlem started an investigation into cocaine smuggling to Canada. According to the public prosecutor, three people are now arrested. The 45-year-old man from the Dominican Republic who was arrested with 50,000 euros, a 39-year-old man living in Hoofddorp and a 25-year-old man from Bunschoten. Research into the origin of the money led to a search in Hoofddorp, where the 39-year-old man lived with his partner. There was more money, a designer wardrobe worth 20,000 euros, expensive brand watches and a firearm found. In the car of the residents, which (like the house) was in the name of someone else, two suitcases with hidden compartments were found, containing over fifteen kilos of xtc pills. The 39-year-old man from Hoofddorp has been detained since his arrest, while the investigation went through. After his arrest, according to the prosecution, he continued with criminal practices. That led to the arrest of the man from Bunschoten. According to justice, they made plans to smuggle a large amount of cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Toronto. They were also recruiting women who, as couriers, had to smuggle money out of the Netherlands.
Three alleged bosses of a gang who, according to justice, possibly spent years putting fishermen under pressure to smuggle large parties of hard drugs from the sea, denied all accusations on Thursday at the start of their criminal proceedings. "Nonsense, I am not a drug bully or a big extortioner, I wanted to serve a service to friends", the supposed leader Muhammed S. spoke fiercely before the court in Amsterdam.
Together with Ferry B. (43) from Den Helder and Leendert R. (51) from Urk, S. was arrested last autumn. This happened a few months after a batch of almost 261 kilograms of cocaine had been intercepted in Harlingen, which had been brought ashore with the Urker fish cutter Z181.
The Coast Guard appears to have followed the cutter when it was exported one evening in June last year. The ship crossed the track of a Brazilian container ship and the crew members picked up sports bags with drugs from the sea. Then it returned to the port prematurely due to 'engine problems'.
The crew members and owner Johannes N. from Urk were sentenced to six years in prison in May. N. made an extensive confession. He claims to have been pressured and threatened to cooperate with the smuggling gang. The Public Prosecutor (OM) suspects that Muhammed S. is behind these threats, although N. has not mentioned names.
Muhammed S. must also answer for a murder attempt on a man in Hippolytushoef in 2015. Defendant B. would also have been involved. Their involvement would appear from encrypted messages that are in the hands of the Public Prosecution Service.
Michael B., who is suspected of committing attacks with a grenade on coffeeshops in Delft in May of this year, had been convicted of the so-called Irish bath murder. The Irish Damien Monaghan and the brothers Vincent and Morgan Costello were shot dead.
Michael B. grew up in a world full of violence. In February 1987, B. is not yet 10 years old, his father is shot dead by a bodyguard of the Rotterdam gambling king Johan Bestebreurtje. Because his mother is heavily addicted to the drugs, he goes to live with his grandparents. He begins to attach himself to his godfather, but he is also shot dead - at a camp site in Rijsbergen.
When he was fifteen, Michael B. would wander and he would increasingly use coke. In a tantrum he shoots down a friend of his mother, but the judge gives him a low sentence. But B. remains restless and gets more and more on the bad path. In the beginning of 2000 he and his close friend Damien Monaghan, alias "Monnie", committed some armed robberies. In the night of 26 to 27 April of that year, things go completely wrong.
That night Michael B. is in a flat in Scheveningen. Also present: Monnie, the Irish brothers Vincent and Morgan Costello and the 20-year-old Ronald van B. from Wassenaar. Under the influence of alcohol and coke, he is convinced that the Costello brothers want to kill him. B. shoot them a bullet in the head. Michael's best friend Monnie is unlucky to be on the firing line. He too finds death.
Michael B. and Ronald van B. try to calm down with xtc and rohypnol and order escort girls. They stay in the apartment for days. Then the corpses begin to stink. The two saw the bodies of the three victims in pieces and set the remains on fire in the bathtub. In the end, the police can only see how many bodies there were at the number of feet. A DNA match eventually leads the police to Michael B. In appeal he is sentenced to 16 years in prison plus tbs in 2002. Ronald van B., who would have stabbed Vincent Costello with a knife, gets 12 years in prison.
Michael B., now 41 years old, was arrested in Noordwijk in June of this year . In addition to the grenade attack on coffeeshops The Game and The Future in May 2018, he is also suspected of possession of weapons. Two others were arrested with him, a 22-year-old man who was sitting in the car next to him and a 30-year-old woman from The Hague; she is the widow of criminal Piet Pronk.
In Amsterdam-Zuid, someone was injured late Monday night with a shooting incident. The shots fell around 23.00 in the Rivierenbuurt. The police dropped off the street. A trauma helicopter was called but in the end the wounded left for a hospital by ambulance. According to AT5 it is unknown how serious the injured person is. Rumors about an arrest have not been confirmed.
He is not officially suspected yet, but the Public Prosecutor in Amsterdam thinks he can find enough evidence that Richard R., aka Rico de Chilean, led a criminal organization that committed murders. The OM thinks that Rico the Chilean and Ridouan Taghi are in charge of the criminal organization. The PPS also thinks that Rico the Chilean was involved in a targeted murder with a knife in Dubai. Who is not known, nor whether the plan has been implemented. Until now, the man is officially only suspected of leading a large drug organization. He also said that he had laundered EUR 9.6 million.
The national unit of the National Police says that in the early morning of Tuesday eight searches were carried out with seven people arrested. According to various media, it is an action against the network of the number one fugitive Ridouan Taghi. SWAT teams busted into premises in Utrecht, Nieuwegein, Vianen and Tiel. The police say it is about arrests in an 'ongoing investigation'. There has been heavy use by the police everywhere. Many streets have been completely shut down. According to the NOS, relatives and people from Taghi's immediate vicinity have been arrested. The police teams are looking for the whereabouts of Taghi and firearms, drugs, cash and valuables. Ridouan Taghi grew up in Vianen and Utrecht.
The Moroccans need a Lucky Luciano who can organize them, because all of this infighting will marginalize them even more. The Albanians are taking everything over step by step..
The suspicious man, who was shot down by a motor police officer this morning in the Amsterdam Staatslieden district, appears to be Heineken kidnapper Frans Meijer (66). One of the best-known underworld figures. Meijer is hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds in a hospital where he is guarded by the police. He was cared for by a trauma team after being shot in the Van Limburg Stirumstraat. The weapon that Meijer carried with him was recovered and confiscated.
Yes TKJ there were a number of Hells Angels also involved in the plan to kill John Mieremet. That was declared by an anonymous, threatened witness at Holleeder´s extortion trial in 2006.
The attack with an antitank grenade in 2007 on the court bunker in Amsterdam-Osdorp was commissioned by Stanley Hillis. That is what Willem Holleeder said during the 38th session in his trial. Holleeder heard this from the person who shot the rocket launcher, but he does not want to mention his name. The rocket attack happened during the first session day in the Kolbak process that was being conducted at the time about extortion in the underworld. Holleeder was ultimately convicted for this. The grenade exploded in the middle of the night against the façade of the courthouse. Immediately there were speculations that Dino Soerel or Stanly Hillis would be behind this and that the intention was that Holleeder would keep his mouth shut. Holleeder confirms that now. He said on Friday: 'The intention was that I would not explain anything about money that Stanley Hillis had stored at Willem Endstra'.
Ron de J., aka Rooie Ron, was acquitted on appeal from the money laundering he had earned during the IRT affair. He can also get his confiscated villa back in Vinkeveen. The court sentenced him to 9 months in jail last June. 'Rooie Ron' bought in 1995 from the proceeds from large-scale trade in soft drugs a capital villa on the Vinkeveense Plassen. He bought the property with bearer shares from a Swiss company. The IRT affair was a huge police corruption scandal. De Jong, like Mink Kok and Stanley Hillis, made millions in the early nineties to import soft drugs together with the informant Kris J. of the then IRT. Only years after the end of the IRT affair, in which two ministers had to leave the field because they were unable to provide clarity about the activities of the police and the judiciary, the Public Prosecutor brought the case up again.
The Spanish police have busted a large drug gang in the province of Alicante, consisting of five Dutch people and one Moroccan. They are accused of drug trafficking, possession of weapons, growing marijuana, and being part of a criminal organization. The gang wanted to grow eighty thousand cannabis plants annually in a shed in La Nucia and in twenty different dwellings. With that, ten tons of buds could be grown annually. They wanted to make Alicante the largest producer of marijuana. The weed was intended for the Dutch, Belgian and German markets.
The police have arrested a new suspect of the murder of criminal John Mieremet in 2005 in Thailand. It is a 38-year-old man from Amsterdam. De Telegraaf writes that he is of Turkish descent and was one of the executors of the liquidation. Mieremet was since the eighties part of the Amsterdam underworld with his friend Sam Klepper. Holleeder had a lot of contact with them, until they got a heated fight. Klepper was killed in 2000, Mieremet in 2005, after a failed attempt in 2002. Last week, two suspects were arrested, including Dino Soerel.
In case of a shooting incident in Amsterdam-Zuidoost the rapper "Bolle" of the formation Sevengang from Amsterdam was killed. Around 15.25 the police reported the shooting incident. On the spot, officers found a badly wounded man. Despite intensive medical treatment on the spot, the victim succumbed to his injuries some time later. The perpetrator is fugitive.
Spanish police are investigating two Costa del Sol bomb blasts thought to be linked to an ongoing gang war. The first blast happened outside a residential property on a gated estate in Benahavis which is popular with British expats and holidaymakers. The second occurred outside a car wash firm on an industrial estate in nearby San Pedro de Alcantara owned by the man whose home was targeted. No one was injured in the blasts, although several cars were destroyed. Both properties belong to a Maghrebi businessman allegedly related to David, the 'Maradona of cocaine' Avila, who was killed in May at the time of his son's First Communion. Police are linking the two incidents, which follow the discovery earlier this month of another home-made bomb on a residential area called Alto de los Monteros east of the upmarket resort of Marbella. Bomb squad officers carried out a controlled explosion to make the device safe after being alerted on September 11. A Dutch-Moroccan national linked to organised crime was later arrested.
A 64-year-old man has passed away after yesterday's account in the criminal circuit in Rotterdam, MC died in the hospital. He was shot in the head by a big, black man with a beard. MC would be of Chinese descent and would have a criminal record. He was involved in the past in the production of synthetic drugs. In the milieu there are noises that it has to do with the recent arrest of members of an Albanian gang in September.
The Spanish Guardia Civil says that the US Department for Homeland Security also participated in the investigation into the large group of Dutch drug criminals who imported more than six tons of cocaine to Málaga. The group would also have had cocaine transported to the Netherlands. Sources report that the Dutch suspects do come from the Traveller milieu in East Brabant and Limburg. The Guardia Civil says that 6.3 tons of cocaine was seized this week . That is the second largest catch in Europe ever. 16 people have been arrested (15 in Málaga and one in Badajoz), and 20 have been searched. In addition, 300,000 euros in cash, firearms, expensive cars and many administration and computers were confiscated. The group imported large quantities of fruit from Costa Rica and had previously set up a business in Spain. An 'infrastructure' was set up by the group, according to the Spaniards, where cocaine shipments were collected in the province of Badajoz at the Portuguese border. The investigation into the group took about a year. In that year 70 containers were imported to the Portuguese port city of Setubal. Cocaine was stored in both Badajoz and Málaga.
Saturday evening a Dutchman was shot dead in the center of the Spanish Torremolinos. It concerns Hamza Ziani (33) known in underworld circles. He is regarded as one of the protagonists in a fierce cocaine war, which has kept Utrecht and its surroundings in its grip for a few years now. Ziani, father of three young children, was part of a self-proclaimed 'Alliance'; a joint venture between Utrecht and Rotterdam drug gangs to eliminate rival RidouanTaghi.
Ziani was just on bail a few weeks after he was arrested in an investigation into the makeshift bomb found in Marbella. The girl who accompanied him on Saturday night told the police that Ziani seemed nervous and went outside a few times to smoke. They had dinner in restaurant Tiki on the boulevard in Playamar, Bajondillo. "Here you eat the best sushi from Málaga," the waitress heard Ziani say. Restaurant Tiki is currently very popular on the Costa del Sol and there is a waiting list of weeks for those who want to dine late on Saturday night. The first reservations were before 21.30. The restaurant was almost empty when the shooter came in just before the waitress wanted to serve the order. It was a few minutes past nine. Ziani had ordered a beer, his girlfriend a bottle of water. According to witnesses, the shooter was fat and also wore face-covering and a sweat band around his head in addition to the hood. He shot at first twice, the girl fell sideways on her shoulder away from the table. Ziani tried to run out injured, but a few meters before the door he collapsed. There the killer fired another seven times.
There are so many grenades on the streets in Amsterdam because the price of hand grenades is now very low: between 5 and 20 euros each, according to police. This year there are already fourteen deposited. Research shows that the grenades are always put down in a targeted way to threaten the catering sector and stores. The mayor of Amsterdam has closed a restaurant and a clothing store on the Bijlmer square, where two grenades were found in a short time.
In the investigation of the 6.3 tons of cocaine found in Málaga in Spain last week, the detectives have done incursions in Waalwijk, Kaatsheuvel and in Asperen in Gelderland, police say. The police suspect that money from drug trafficking has been laundered. A number of buildings, luxury vehicles and administration have been seized. The Spanish media reported about the dismantling of an organization that is one of the biggest in Europe. It´s led by Hansje V. and his father. V. from Waalwijk has been arrested but his father is still at liberty.
The Dutch Anti-Fraud agency arrested four people and confiscated 45 million illegal cigarettes. According to the service, a criminal organization has evaded some EUR 11 million in tax.
Rotterdam is grappling with a crime wave in which the criminal milieu is becoming more embedded with normal society – such as money laundering, police said in a statement.
Four men were found killed in a business premises on Van Leeuwenhoekstraat in Enschede on Tuesday. According to the police, initial investigation showed that they were killed by violence. The men were involved in the cannabis production and trade in the east of the Netherlands.
'Godfather' Greg R. (70) arrested Police response against gang Caloh Wagoh
ROTTERDAM - On Wednesday morning the police started a large-scale operation against the controversial motor club Caloh Wagoh early in the morning. Forty raids have been made in club buildings and homes of members of Caloh Wagoh in, among others, Leiden, Den Hoorn, Mijdrecht and The Hague.
The operation is led by the police The Hague. Hundreds of policemen are involved in the action. Among the detainees in Mijdrecht and Leiden are two leaders of the gang of 48 and 70, who are suspected of participating in a criminal organization.
It would be the 48-year old 'Keylow', former leader of the street gang The Crips. Also Greg R. (70), nicknamed the 'Godfather', was arrested, his lawyer confirms. The latter is one of the most famous criminal leaders in the Netherlands. His son Jesse is a life imprisonment for various underworld murders in the Amsterdam criminal circuit.
The lawyer of Greg R. Nico Meijering confirms his arrest at De Telegraaf. "We are on the way, I can not say anything about it yet."
Four men were found killed in a business premises on Van Leeuwenhoekstraat in Enschede on Tuesday. According to the police, initial investigation showed that they were killed by violence.
Police arrested a father and son of Serbian origin. the father was a former policeman in his home country.
Heads of the underworld have considered to liquidate officer of justice Koos Plooij. NRC reports on the basis of intercepted messages that criminals sent each other in 2016.
Plooij fought for twenty years against organized crime and was involved in several major mob cases. The plan to murder him came from fugitive kingpin Ridouan T.
T. probably sent the message to Rico the Chilean. He would have turned down a murder on Plooij. According to NRC, the OM has long feared a murder of a magistrate.
70-year-old Greg Remmers and Crips founder Delano "KeyLow" R. (48) remain in detention for three months. That is what the council chamber of the court in The Hague determined on Wednesday. The two were arrested on 21 November on suspicion of involvement in the liquidation of Jair Wessels. Greg is now detained in the EBI, the extra secure unit of the Dutch Penitentiary Vught.
In the Rijnmond area 1,188 kilos of cocaine was seized. This is reported by the Colombian anti-drug police. Eight Dutch people were arrested.
2,500 kilos of cocaine was found on Friday 16 November during a check by Customs on the Maasvlakte, the Public Prosecution Service announced on Tuesday evening. Due to current research, the discovery has only recently been published. The cargo of drugs was placed between melons from Brazil.
The underworld of Brabant and Zeeland has between ten and fifteen big drug bosses that have been elusive for years. But the government is pursuing the hunt for the premier league players of the drug trade. ,, We now have a good picture of who they are. "
They are active in all provinces of the Netherlands. In fact, their field of work is worldwide. But their roots are in Brabant and Zeeland. The drugs shed in the Netherlands has ten to fifteen virtually invisible top figures who pull the strings of the drug environment. They have been in the drugs for decades and are never caught.
This is evident from the new Betonrot report from research bureau Beke, which was published on behalf of the Taskforce Brabant-Zeeland. The report describes the drug environment in the two most problematic drug provinces in the Netherlands. The conclusions are worrying. There is hardening in the circuit, partly due to the advance of cocaine trafficking. It also generates megawins. "About 100 people are fully loaded ."
David Rommy a son of crime boss Henk Rommy was sentenced to five years for blowing up up ATMs. His father is serving time in a federal prison in the US for ecstasy trafficking.
In the past few weeks, ten batches of cocaine have been detected in the port of Rotterdam during various inspections. In total, almost 4000 kilos of drugs were caught. The Rotterdam public prosecutor has announced this on Friday.
In Hulten in the province of Brabant, two cars were completely destroyed by fire on Friday night. That happened around one o'clock on Jan B.'s grounds. The top criminal - who is currently detained - has been convicted, among other things, for supplying weapons to the Amsterdam and Utrecht underworld. He was also convicted of threatening the Mayor of Gilze en Rijen. In 2017, B. was sentenced to five years and seven months for arms trade. He also received two years for the disappearance of the corpse of Freddy Janssen from Valkenswaard. Jan B. recently came into the news sideways when a drug lab was dismantled in Rijen. One of the suspects arrested in the past worked in a Jan B. pub.
The Rotterdam-based rapper Faisal Mssyeh (32), better known as Feis, died in the night from Monday to Tuesday. He may be the victim who died in a shooting in the city.
People of the rapper, including Kees de Koning of record label Top Notch, report his death on social media.
"I can not believe it", writes De Koning. "Go missing, your super talent, sense of humor and how you were always ready for everyone.
Rapper Tony Pengel, better known as U-Niq, writes on Facebook: "My whole year ruined by serious grief My brothers Why?"
It seems that Feis was killed by a shooting. In the city center of Rotterdam a dead man and a wounded man fell victim to a shooting in the Gouvernestraat, after which seven people were arrested.
The police can not confirm that it is indeed Feis, but lets know that the deceased person was 32 years old. The other person, a 31-year-old fellow, is still injured in the hospital.
AMSTERDAM - Willem Holleeder has known in a hitherto secret 'confession' that he has formed a triumvirate with the dead-top criminal Stanley Hillis and the life-condemned Dino Soerel.
This is evidenced by a very revealing tape from a recorded telephone conversation of one hour between crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and Willem Holleeder in April 2011.
Holleeder then finished the final phase of his sentence for extorting Willem Endstra. He feared to be liquidated by Dino Soerel because he refused to make a statement relieved of Soerel.
The telephone conversation from 2011, which was listened to last weekend by this newspaper, provides the public prosecutor with new evidence for the suspicion that Holleeder, together with Hillis and Soerel, led a criminal gang that had murders carried out.
The tape was handed to the PPS last week by Peter R. de Vries, who sends copies to the court and the defenders today. The leaking of the confession comes at a very unfavorable moment for Holleeder. Holleeder denied to know anything about the six liquidations that are being charged during the trial against him. The opposite is evident from the tape.
The tape in 2011 was recorded at the request of Holleeder and could only be made public if he said he would die an 'unnatural death'. De Vries said this, but handed over the tape to the Public Prosecution Service last week.
"Around Christmas I decided to listen to the tape again", De Vries told the newspaper. "I had not heard the tape for years and had actually forgotten what Holleeder had said. But when I heard it again I realized how stressful this actually is. His story from then confirms exactly what his sisters have declared in recent years. "
According to De Vries, he now breaks his word given to Holleeder in 2011. "I then promised that I would not make the tape public until something would have happened to Holleeder . " But the man has now threatened me with death and tried to kill me from prison. Then, as far as I am concerned, this agreement will lapse. "
The tape can have major consequences for Holleeder and the process because the confession in the eyes of the Public Prosecution Service underpins the suspicions and can be a blow to Holleeder's defense.
Incidentally, the confession is rather painful for Holleeder's previous lawyer, Mr. Stijn Franken. The tape appears to have been recorded at the Franken office. The tape shows how Holleeder calls the law firm and how Stijn Franken then hands over the phone to De Vries, knowing that this is forbidden. Lawyer telephones may only be used for communication between counselors and their clients.
Taghi linked to 12 murders By JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL AND MICK VAN WELY
Updated 3 hours ago Today, 5:30 in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM - 'Mocro-mafia' -crown-witness Nabil B. has made statements about at least twelve murders and attempts to do so at the Public Prosecution Service. According to B. the organization of the wanted top criminals Ridouan Taghi and Saïd Razzouki was behind the most murders.
Police in Amsterdam-Noord after the shooting incident last year on the 41-year-old Reduan B., the brother of the key witness Nabil B.â’¸ ANP
This report sources around the Marengo liquidation investigation, in which the statements are central. The number is unique. No other crown witness linked so many offenses against one person.
Nabil B. himself is suspected of involvement in a liquidation in 2017. He later decided, for fear of being wound up himself and out of remorse, to make a deal with the law. The man whose completely innocent brother was liquidated in Amsterdam last March is heavily secured.
Groups from the Brabant underworld have threatened to assassinate a police officer from the Zeeland-West Brabant unit. The endangered employee is active in the fight against drug crime in Brabant.
To make it clear that the police are aware of the threat, Wednesday discussions were held with representatives of the criminal gangs. Nobody has been arrested. This was confirmed by a police spokesman on Thursday following an interview given by Chief of Unit Hanneke Ekelmans to BN / De Stem.
'Chilly death threat' The policeman speaks in the interview of an unprecedented, new escalation that illustrates the hardening of crime. "This is a deliberate, cold death threat with purely criminal motives. We have never experienced it here, as far as I know, "she says.
Less police effort to protect Bandidos boss Updated 5 min ago 9 min ago in the Netherlands
Echt - The emergency ordinances around the house in Nieuwstadt by President Harrie Ramakers of the Limburg Bandidos will be lifted from Saturday. This is because the earlier threat around Ramakers' home has declined, writes Mayor Jos Hessels of Echt-Susteren, Friday in a residents letter.
Hessels issued an emergency ordinance on 19 December 2018 after a hand grenade was found in the Bandidos boss's garden. In the meantime, the situation is less threatening and the previously removed traffic-inhibiting measures are removed. Preventive searching is also off the track.
The camera surveillance remains. The police will also respond with priority to incidents around the home of Ramakers.
Two attacks were committed on the home of Ramakers on 16 and 22 March 2014. Hessels also took measures to protect the street. Those who were responsible for the attacks never became clear.
In Antwerp Borgerhout a kickboxer was injured on Thursday evening in a shooting, according to the Gazet van Antwerpen . There might have been Dutch involved.
Victim is Morad S. who participated in major European kickboxing events in the Netherlands and Belgium between 2010 and 2104 and was European champion WFCA.
The shooting happened in the Vandermeydenstraat in Borgerhout.
Local residents heard a tumult arise in a building, followed by a shot. Morad S. was hit in the leg. Sources in the criminal environment speak to the Gazet van Antwerpen about a rip deal, in which the Antwerp men would have been deprived of their money by the Dutch.
S. was a suspect in drug research a few years ago and has small convictions for drug sales. The federal criminal investigation is investigating the shooting.
In 2018, a record amount of 73,000 kilos of cocaine has been intercepted in Dutch and Belgian ports. In 2017 it was more than 54,000 kilos.The police say that increasingly heavier loads enter the Netherlands. "A few years ago it was sometimes a shipment of 500 kilos. Today it involves thousands of kilos. The shipments are getting bigger and are usually meant for the hinterland. For example, a lot goes to Germany. "
In 2018, a record amount of 73,000 kilos of cocaine has been intercepted in Dutch and Belgian ports. In 2017 it was more than 54,000 kilos.The police say that increasingly heavier loads enter the Netherlands. "A few years ago it was sometimes a shipment of 500 kilos. Today it involves thousands of kilos. The shipments are getting bigger and are usually meant for the hinterland. For example, a lot goes to Germany. "
Just confirms that Netherlands and Belgium are main entrance points for drugs, together with Spain and Italy.
CRIME EXPLOSION AT AMSTELVEEN GYM By Janene Pieters on January 25, 2019 - 09:29
An explosive caused a large amount of damage at a gym on Zetterij in Amstelveen during the early hours of Friday morning. The police believe someone deliberately set off an explosive at the gym, Gym3, which is located on an industrial terrain, the Telegraaf reports.
The explosion happened around 2:30 a.m. It shattered the gym's windows and badly damaged the interior and facade of the building. No one was injured, a police spokesperson said to the newspaper. No one was in the building when the explosion happened.
On Facebook the owner of the Gym said that the gym will be open as usual on Friday. "Not only for you, but also for us this is a huge shock. We are greatly affected by this. The damage that has been done is great, but fortunately only material", the gym owner wrote. The damage is largely limited to the gym's restaurant, Food3. "Our lessons will continue! We will not let you down or be beaten down!"
The man who was shot on IJburg in Amsterdam on Wednesday evening, is the 43-year old former professional footballer Yassine Abdellaoui from Amsterdam. He is out of danger but was injured.
Pretty shocking conversation between Peter R. de Vries and Holleeder it´s like a codicil of Holleeder. That this has been made public by De Vries raises a lot of eyebrows in both media and underworld.
Same man is wanted for murder in Serbia,this year in January,here is video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuYJA3frsFA He is working for various criminal groups from Balkans.He is working mainly for Kavacki & Skaljarski clan. He is also wanted for murder in Budapest committed in September last year
Doesn't look good for the godfather Greg Remmers he has now been linked to four murders by a crown witness.
Chester Gregory Remmers is a Dutch criminal who has been seen by the judiciary since 1975 as one of the leaders in the Amsterdam drug scene. His organization is in close contact with the infamous Colombian Cali cartel.
Same man is wanted for murder in Serbia,this year in January,here is video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuYJA3frsFA He is working for various criminal groups from Balkans.He is working mainly for Kavacki & Skaljarski clan. He is also wanted for murder in Budapest committed in September last year
Again sensitive PGP data in Rico de Chilean case At a heavily secured session at the court in Osdorp, the progress in the investigation into Rico de Chile is discussed this morning.
Justice is still working hard to trace and analyze pgp data in the investigation into Rico de Chilean, correspondents say on the spot . The information comes to the fore via the cracked servers and data managers of the encryption telephone provider Ennetcom. The NFI technicians also analyze the information found on smartphones that were found at Rico at the end of '17 in a raid on the hotel apartment in Santiago de Chile.
Justice assumes that Rico the Chilean has been involved in various assassinations, the Public Prosecution Service mentioned to the court in Osdorp the names of the Amsterdam Moroccan Samir 'Scarface' Bouyakhrichan, shot dead in Spain in 2014, that of Amsterdam Antillian Gwenette Martha, who had also been liquidated in Amstelveen that same year, and a year earlier in Marbella, Frankie Scharrenberg was shot dead.
After already big in ecstasy and speed the dutch producers discover more and more methamphetamine. In an drug lab on the Schipluidenseweg in Wateringen that the police discovered Tuesday morning, an estimated 400 kilos of crystal meth was found.
'Top criminal behind attack on De Telegraaf' Police and Public Prosecution Service strongly take into account that the fugitive leader Ridouan Taghi has given the order for the attack on De Telegraaf. The Public Prosecutor confirms this to the newspaper. On 26 June last year, a man with a Volkswagen Caddy drove through the glass façade of the TMG building and then lit the car filled with fuel-filled jerry cans. The attack destroyed a large part of the façade. Politicians in The Hague condemned the attack on the free press.
In a shooting in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam), a man and his daughter were shot and injured. This is an attempt to liquidate Ahmet G., who has been in the picture of the police for years because of alleged involvement in large-scale coke trading. He is considered a big name in the criminal environment.
The case of the so-called 'tattookillers' continues on Monday in court in Rotterdam. Two of the four suspects, Brian P. and Henk K., have to answer for the death of their 'buddy' Onno Kuut and the hiding of the corpse by burying it in Hoek van Holland. His body was found in the dunes on March 25, 2009.
Surinamese businessman nicknamed 'Escobar' in his country and suspected of large-scale cocaine smuggling has been stuck here in the Netherlands since October. The Public Prosecution Service keeps President Desi Bouterse's party friend in jail here. The Public Prosecution Service The Hague confirms this to De Telegraaf. It is the rice magnate Radj O. (55) who was arrested in the Netherlands after justice in Suriname issued an international investigation order in March last year. According to the judiciary in Suriname, he is behind a submarine with which cocaine is transported and a plane with almost 500 kilos of coke. Both were discovered on its site in the area of ​​Saramacca in March of last year.
The investigation and the arrest are very sensitive in Suriname. It's is a public secret that Radj O. is one of the major financiers of the NDP party of Bouterse. In the Netherlands, Bouterse still has to serve a sentence of eleven years for cocaine trafficking.
80 million in drug money pumped into Spanish real estate Dutch 'banker' drug gang arrested in Spain
CALPE - A 51-year-old Dutchman was arrested in southeastern Spain on suspicion of money laundering from drug criminals. According to Spanish media, the man was recently arrested in Calpe, 55 kilometers northeast of Alicante.
He would launder income from cocaine smugglers mainly through a real estate trade in Alfaz del Pi, not far from Calpe. It would involve more than 80 million euros in drug money that was brought in from the Netherlands and pumped around in Spanish real estate. The suspect is said to be the son of a leader of a Dutch gang of drug smugglers.
The arrestee has already been handed over to the Netherlands according to reports from Europa Press. The investigation into this gang started in the Netherlands in 2017 after the discovery of more than 3200 kilos of cocaine in a load of bananas from Latin America.
In a few weeks the book Holleeders Underworld will be published , written by Wim van de Pol. Van de Pol was the only journalist who had access to the complete police files of the criminal case against Willem Holleeder and to documents from files from dozens of other murder cases that appear to be related to the case.
In the new book Van de Pol outlines, among other things, alternative scenarios for those who can be behind the murders of which Willem Holleeder is suspected. He often quotes from official reports. This creates a complete picture of the underworld war that held the Netherlands in its grip from 1999. A very different picture than the limited history that has so far been outlined in the media. In addition to Holleeder, there appear to have been other key players.
More than a Jordaan family quarrel The book also shows that the lawsuit against Holleeder is much more than a picturesque Amsterdam-Jordaan family quarrel. It is also the end of an era full of greed and reckoning. A period in which numerous conflicts ran together, with more than one main player.
Raw reality In Holleeders Onderwereld we regularly read the raw reality directly from the original police files, made readable and provided with an explanation by the author. It is the original, personal stories of the criminals themselves, witnesses and victims who paint a never-before-seen picture of Holleeder's underworld.
A shooting on the Beukenlaan in Eindhoven claimed the life of a 54-year-old man who died at an area hospital. No suspects were immediately taken into custody, police in the area said. The man who was killed was apparently shot in his car, reported local news website Studio040.
Little is known about the motive for the murder of Frank K. in Eindhoven: there are so many different stories circulating that there is not much to say about it. Recurring item: that he was a good friend of Lesley Tunk. They were "best friends." But that is already nine years ago (November 2010), that Lesley was found murdered in a burnout car. Tunk was an enforcer for the Gang of Van Wesenbeeck, I mentioned Janus the other day in the Other Mob Films/Books/TV section, before his death Tunk was ordered to kill Scottish drug lord Walter Douglas.
Various arrest teams have been raiding early in the morning at various places in the Netherlands. In addition, 12 people were arrested in Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague, ranging in age from 20 to 27 years. The raids are related to the attack on the building of newspaper The Telegraaf, June last year.
Houses, sheds and garage boxes were also searched in Zwanenburg, Houten, Utrecht, The Hague, Diemen, Lijnden, Zaandam, Nieuwegein and Amstelveen. Among other things, a car, license plates, GPS trackers, cash, motorbikes and stolen scooters were seized.
The Monday morning operation has been prepared for weeks and is being implemented by the Special Interventions Service.
According to De Telegraaf itself, criminal Ridouan Taghi is behind the attack. Possibly because the newspaper has extensively published several times about the man from Nieuwegein, who is now on the National Investigation List.
For the golden tip that leads to the detection of Taghi and his companion Saïd Razzouki, the police are promising 100,000 euros.
The Public Prosecution Service made a huge blunder. A photo of the most important key witness in the case against Ridouan Taghi, the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands, ended up in the criminal files of all suspects around Taghi, the Prosecutor confirmed to RTL Nieuws after reports in the Telegraaf.
The police photo of Nabil B. ended up in the files of suspects who are on trial on Thursday for involvement in multiple underworld assassinations. The main suspect in the case is fugitive Ridouan Taghi.
Nabil B. is under very heavy security, because of concerns of retaliations from the criminals he testified against. He is in custody in a special, heavily protected wing of a detention center. Last year, Nabil B.'s brother Reduan was murdered in Amsterdam. The Prosecutor believes that this was done in retaliation for Nabil B.'s testimony, and that "the group around Taghi" was behind the murder.
"The photo was included in the file unintentionally. And therefore an error. Publication entails risks. The Public Prosecution Service regrets this course of action", a spokesperson for the National Prosecutor's Office told RTL Nieuws.
A 28-year-old Colombian man was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison by the Rotterdam court for his involvement in importing a 5.1-tonne cocaine in February 2018. The public prosecutor had demanded seven years in prison.
The 5,091 kilos of cocaine from Colombia was in a container that contained bananas according to the waybills. The container had to go to a company in Moerdijk, but ended up in a warehouse in Oss for unclear reasons. According to some statements because the bananas had to be 'checked', according to others because the warehouse in Moerdijk was already closed. Other bananas were already waiting in the shed to be packed in the container.
There were other suspects who had to take the drugs. According to justice, the Colombian only came to check the seal of the container. He has constantly invoked his right to remain silent. According to the OM, the other suspects did not know who he was.
Five Dutch suspects and a Belgian woman must be tried later. The clients for the transport are unknown.
The public prosecutor does not yet want to say for which murders she will prosecute Dutch Chilean Richard "Rico" R. (45). The prosecutors did, however, present PGP messages to the court on Thursday with new indications of assassinations. It remains to be seen whether there is enough evidence for prosecution for murders.
Rico is now only on trial for possession of firearms, money laundering and membership of a criminal organization that trafficked drugs. He was extradited for those facts by Chile, the country where he was arrested.
"Rico the Chilean is a leader in the Mocro War" WANT THIJSSEN
AMSTERDAM
Richard R., aka 'Rico de Chileen', is involved in one or more liquidations in the criminal environment. The Public Prosecution Service states this on the basis of a criminal investigation. According to his prosecutors, 45-year-old R. is one of the three leaders in a major drug war (popularly called Mocro War) that has cost more than 30 lives since 2012.
Together with the fugitive Ridouan T. (currently the most wanted man) and Naoufal - 'Noffel' - F. (sentenced to 18 years in prison last spring), R. would lead a ruthless Dutch drug syndicate in which influenceable young boys become hired to liquidate counterparts. The amateurism of these contract killers has already resulted in at least ten 'mistreatments'.
So far, Richard R. is on trial for running a criminal organization, possession of weapons, drug trafficking and money laundering. But on Wednesday, during the third session in his criminal trial, it turned out that the Public Prosecution Service also wants to sue him for involvement in murder.
The accused was involved in several liquidations, according to OM
R.'s involvement in liquidations would appear from encrypted message traffic found on two seized servers of the telephone company Ennetcom. This controversial Dutch company sold PGP telephones - 'Pretty Good Privacy' - mainly to criminals who assumed that they were communicating outside of the police because of the encryption software. Partly based on this type of decrypted messages, R.'s henchman 'Noffel' was sentenced to 18 years in prison last year.
Henchmen The indictment of murder requires permission from the Chilean authorities (who extradited R. on the basis of the current indictment). However, the prosecutors did not answer on Wednesday specifically about the question of which murders they think the suspect is actually involved in. It was said that the investigation showed that convicted drug dealer Mink K., who served his prison sentence and is staying in Lebanon, is "a target of this suspect." And at the end of last year, NRC Handelsblad published that in 2016, R. and his alleged other henchman, the fugitive Ridouan T., were considering killing prosecutor Koos Plooij.
Earlier the OM announced that decrypted PGP reports also show that the suspected drug triad 'Rico de Chileen', 'Noffel' and the internationally sought-after Ridouan T. worked together with Raffaele Imperiale, a leader of the Neapolitan mafia, who was three two stolen paintings by Vincent van Gogh have been recovered. The fugitive Imperiale escapes a prison sentence in Italy by staying in Dubai, suspects R.'s prosecutors.
R.'s lawyer, Leon van Kleef, calls the OM's investigation 'slow' and the research results 'not very concrete'. Among other things he wants to hear Mafia boss Imperiale, drug dealer Mink K. and 'Noffel' F. as a witness about their alleged relationship with R. At the beginning of March the OM initiates a video conference with the Chilean judiciary to talk about an extradition certificate by R. murder. Any permission will certainly take five to six months.
Detention Rico de Chileen was arrested in Chile in October 2017 and transferred to the Netherlands last March on suspicion of drug trafficking, money laundering and possession of weapons. He is in custody in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. According to the OM, he is a flight hazard. A request from R.'s lawyer to investigate whether electronic monitoring can be an alternative to R.'s - already very long-term - detention, was rejected on Wednesday.
"One of the largest cocaine labs in the Netherlands ever" discovered thanks to fallen tree The heavy storm in the Netherlands on Thursday led to the accidental discovery of a cocaine laboratory in Oud-Vossemeer, Zeeland, the police in Roosendaal reported. When cleaning up a tree that had landed near a farmer's shed on the Molenweg, a suspicious smell of air was spotted and some suspicious men were seen. Warned agents then found the synthetic drug lab in the shed. This is a large, professional cocaine wash, where the entire production took place for cocaine making. A photo scattered by the police shows the coke lab and barrels with chemicals. Nobody has been picked up yet.
Spain arrested Dutch "heroine king" | Abroad June 16, 2019 World 1 Views
The Spanish media call Sadullah U. alias Nicol "the king of the heroin". He is considered one of the largest heroin traders in Europe. He had hidden seven kilos of heroin in his Audi A3 when he was arrested in the city of Pontevedra. The drug dealer allegedly did not want to use a cell phone and practically lived in his car. With it he covered thousands of kilometers every day.
The police investigation began in January, when a drug trafficker in Ourense began to trade a lot of heroin. In addition to 7 kilos of heroin, 66 kilos of speed and thousands of euros of cash were confiscated during the operation.
The Dutchman was arrested once in 2008 when the Spanish police ever carried out their biggest heroin capture. At that time, agents found more than 316 kilos of heroin on a yacht near Barcelona. Sadullah was once in jail after being arrested in 1994. Then in Madrid 118 kilos of heroin were confiscated.
Twice life for "unscrupulous murders" in underworld war 26 June 2019 13:30 Last update: 2 minutes ago
On Wednesday, the Gelderland District Court sentenced twice a life sentence and thirty years to jail in a large winding-up process involving two murders and three attempts to that end. "Bullets were literally sprayed," the judge said.
Omar L. (28) has been found guilty of organizing and therefore co-perpetrating the murders and their attempts. According to the court, he must go to prison for life.
That punishment also applies to Hicham M. (25) for his involvement in multiple life crimes. "They seem unscrupulous," was the judge's verdict. "For such exceptionally serious crimes only lifelong is appropriate."
Mohamed H. (29) was imprisoned for 30 years. He was involved in a murder and a failed attempt at murder. "The court sees in his case still room for improvement of his life" and therefore opted for the highest punishment to be imposed.
A total of six suspects were on trial This liquidation process revolves around the preparation of the murder of the Chahid and Chafik Yakhlaf brothers in October 2015, the actual liquidation of Chahid Yakhlaf and the failed liquidation of Chafik Yakhlaf and a third person in Kerkdriel two months later.
In addition, it is about the murder of Eaneas Lomp in Krommenie in November 2015 and the failed liquidation of Nourredine A. in April 2016.
A total of six suspects were on trial. Don M. and Frans H. were respectively imprisoned for nine and seven years for preparing the murders of the Yakhlaf brothers in October 2015.
Daniël M. was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for luring his 'friend' Lomp and keeping the shooters informed of the man's travel movements.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police say they have made Europe’s biggest ever seizure of methamphetamine after discovering 2.5 tons of the drug stashed behind a wall in a building in the port city of Rotterdam.
Police said in a statement Wednesday that the drugs, which were found last week and have since been destroyed, had a street value of hundreds of millions of euros, and that this “quantity has never before been discovered in Europe.â€
Further investigations led detectives to a warehouse in the central city of Utrecht where they discovered 17,500 liters (4,623 gallons) of chemicals that could be used for washing cocaine and producing synthetic drugs.
Police spokesman Thomas Aling said no suspects have been arrested, but investigations are continuing.
In an interview with Dutch journalist the highest ranked police chief in Medellin said the narcos are preparing massive shipments to Rotterdam and other European ports. Reason is that cocaine production is now at a record level.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police say they have made Europe’s biggest ever seizure of methamphetamine after discovering 2.5 tons of the drug stashed behind a wall in a building in the port city of Rotterdam.
Police said in a statement Wednesday that the drugs, which were found last week and have since been destroyed, had a street value of hundreds of millions of euros, and that this “quantity has never before been discovered in Europe.â€
Further investigations led detectives to a warehouse in the central city of Utrecht where they discovered 17,500 liters (4,623 gallons) of chemicals that could be used for washing cocaine and producing synthetic drugs.
Police spokesman Thomas Aling said no suspects have been arrested, but investigations are continuing.
Or Neo Nazis. There have been a few groups identified in the Netherlands. Dutch gangs mainly deal in Ecstasy, weed and cocaine, with a couple dealing in heroin but not in large quantities.
Or Neo Nazis. There have been a few groups identified in the Netherlands. Dutch gangs mainly deal in Ecstasy, weed and cocaine, with a couple dealing in heroin but not in large quantities.
Yeah there is hardly a market for crystal meth here but we see a lot of seizures and labs here a few big ones involving Mexican producers very worrisome we also don't deal in fentanyl but that's a matter of time before it hits the European streets.
Yeah there is hardly a market for crystal meth here but we see a lot of seizures and labs here a few big ones involving Mexican producers very worrisome we also don't deal in fentanyl but that's a matter of time before it hits the European streets.
i thought mexicans sometimes supplied at most some european criminal groups, i didn't know they were active in the ue territory
Yeah there is hardly a market for crystal meth here but we see a lot of seizures and labs here a few big ones involving Mexican producers very worrisome we also don't deal in fentanyl but that's a matter of time before it hits the European streets.
i thought mexicans sometimes supplied at most some european criminal groups, i didn't know they were active in the ue territory
Yes it was a surprise to Dutch police as well but about ten mexicans are currently in prison here and in Belgium.
DUTCH CRIME BOSS TO SPEND LIFE IN PRISON OVER 6 MURDERS By Janene Pieters on July 4, 2019 - 11:16
The court in Amsterdam sentenced criminal kingpin Willem Holleeder to life in prison on Thursday. He was convicted of ordering six murders and participating in a criminal organization. Life in prison is the only fitting punishment for Holleeder, the court said. "You think you have unscrupulous and indifferent control over life and death", the court said , according to the NOS live blog on the trial.
Holleeder was charged with orchestrating five murders between 2002 and 2006 in the Amsterdam criminal underworld - the murders of Cor van Hout in 2003, Willem Endstra in 2004, John Mieremet and Kees Houtman in 2005, and Thomas van der Bijl in 2006. He also faced charges of manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, and running a criminal enterprise. The Public Prosecutor demanded life in prison against him.
The court found Holleeder guilty of ordering the murders of Cor van Hout, Willem Endstra, Kees Houtman, John Mieremet and Thomas van der Bijl. He was also found guilty of the murder of a boat trader who was killed in the assassination of Van Hout.
The court stressed the severity of the crimes the Heineken kidnapper is accused of. Holleeder led a world in which power, violence and lawlessness reigned supreme, the court said. "Fear rules in the world of crime", the judge said. "The leaders are always wary of treachery."
While there is no concrete evidence for Holleeder's involvement in the five assassinations, a whole series of witnesses linked him to these murders, including his two sisters, his ex-girlfriend, and key witnesses Fred Ros and Peter La Serpe. The Supreme Court previously determined that the authorities broke no rules in the use of these key witnesses, and the court agrees. "The testimonies are reliable and can be used in the usual way in this case", the court said.
The court also considered testimony given by Holleeder's sisters and ex-girlfriend reliable. "It was not in their best interest to make contact with the judiciary." Holleeder's lawyers claimed that sister Astrid suffered from psychiatric disorders, but there is no evidence for that, the court said. There is also no reason to believe that secret recordings Astrid made of conversations with her brother, which formed part of the evidence against him, are unreliable.
Holleeder said multiple times that he was responsible for the murder of his brother-in-law Cor van Hout. "Finally it succeeded", he said to his sister, for example. He also asked about Van Hout's inheritance and criminal assets on the night of his murder. There is enough reliable testimony to show that Holleeder ordered this murder, the court ruled. Boat trader Robert ter Haak was also killed during this assassination.
The court considered it proven that Holleeder was behind the murder of real estate magnate Willem Endsra. He discussed this murder with his sisters, telling sister Sonja that "it was him or me". Other statements also show that Holleeder, working with the group around criminals Dino Soerel and Stanley Hillis, caused Endstra's death.
The testimony of the two key whiteness and an anonymous witness, who heard Holleeder talking to other criminals in a club, convincingly showed that Holleeder commissioned the murder of drug dealer Kees Houtman, the court said. The court also considered Holleeder guilty of the murder of Thomas van der Bijl.
Holleeder also ordered the murder of John Mierement, the court ruled. The crime boss was also convicted of a failed assassination attempt on John Mieremet in 2002. Various statements from witnesses showed this, the court said.
The court did not believe the image Holleeder sketched of himself in the courtroom - that he is a 'crook' who dealt with many serious criminals, but that he cannot be blamed for the actions of others. The court pointed out that Holleeder assured them multiple times that he was telling the truth, only to change his statements later. He also invoked his right to remain silent at crucial moments. "False and opportunistic", the court called it. "With that, you seriously compromised the credibility of your statements."
ONE KILLED IN HOUTEN SHOOTING By Janene Pieters on July 5, 2019 - 07:21 A person was killed in a shooting in Houten, Utrecht on Thursday night. The shooting happened at around 11:00 p.m. in parking lot Schonenburgseind, the Utrecht police said on Twitter.
The victim was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car when someone opened fire on the car, RTV Utrecht reports. A woman was behind the wheel of the parked car, according to AD. Bystanders heard her screaming. As far as is known, she was not hurt.
Witnesses told the newspaper that one perpetrator fled from the scene, possibly on a scooter.
So far nothing is known about the motive for the shooting or the victim's identity. The police are investigating.
Media now confirms the name of the victim: Rob van Eijk (55).
Rob van Eijk is known in the criminal circuit and is said to have been involved in cocaine smuggling in recent years. But he was not always an equally reliable partner. He would have regularly withheld lots of cocaine. In the criminal circuit it would have earned him the nickname 'Trekpop', because he himself pulled back parties of coke. That reputation would also have prevented well-known criminals from working with him. Possibly that eventually became fatal to him.
The Spanish police found in a garage in Malaga an arsenal of weapons in an investigation into a Dutch drug gang. A suspect had hidden the weapons in his car. These are Kalashnikovs, pistols, machine guns, hand grenades and ammunition. The weapons were ready for use.
The Spanish police started the investigation in October, following the discovery of six tons of cocaine on an industrial estate in Malaga. Dozens of cars with secret storage areas have been seized, as well as a large supply of raw materials for the production of synthetic drugs. Twenty suspects are detained.
"Justice already knew in 2017 that Taghi wanted revenge through family of witnesses" 08 July 2019 12:46 Last update: 3 hours ago
As early as 2017, the judiciary was aware of plans Ridouan Taghi made to liquidate family members of 'traitors'. Het Parool reports this on Monday on the basis of deciphered messages that the newspaper has viewed.
In a message to his wife he would have written that, in addition to the traitors themselves, he was also going to "send their children, mothers, sisters, fathers to hell".
This is striking, because there appears to be mistakes in securing the family of crown witness Nabil B. For example, the crown witness did not want it to be announced that he had made statements about Taghi and the group around the man until the man in question was arrested.
Justice did this anyway and just a week later B.'s innocent brother Reduan was shot at work in Amsterdam. The newspaper sketches that only after it was announced that B. had made statements, preparations were made to protect the brother of the crown witness.
According to Het Parool, this is largely due to the fact that the responsible department of the Public Prosecution Service (OM) received only limited information about Taghi from the department of justice leading the investigation. Justice does not want to respond to the newspaper.
OM keeps the man responsible for multiple liquidations The OM holds Taghi responsible for multiple liquidations (including Samir Erraghib's and the Hakim Changachi assassination) and being involved in international drug trafficking. A reward of 100,000 euros has been promised for the tip that leads to his arrest.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, hearings are held in the case against eight men suspected of having been part of the murderous gang around Taghi.
Dutch suspect diamond robbery arrested in Spain July 19, 2019 On Friday, a 30-year-old Dutchman was arrested on the Costa Brava. He was wanted since May last year because he and two others would have committed an armed robbery at a hotel in Amsterdam. A large amount of diamonds were captured during the robbery.
Platja d'Aro When the Dutch police searched a home south of Utrecht after the raid, two firearms and lots of ammunition were found. The police already suspected that the man and a female co-suspect were hiding on the Costa Brava.
The Dutchman was arrested in a busy street of Platja d'Aro. The Spanish National Police cooperated with the Dutch and Catalan authorities. According to the Spanish police, the man is dangerous and belongs to a criminal family clan. Although he had changed his appearance and offered false Romanian papers to the police, his identity could be traced through his fingerprints.
Luxury watch At the time of the arrest, the Dutchman tried to hand over his luxury watch to one of the people he was with at the time. The watch was worth more than 15,000 euros. The agents were able to prevent this just in time.
The arrested Dutchman is also wanted for crimes in Spain. The Spanish court will decide whether the suspect is extradited to the Netherlands.
NETHERLANDS' MOST WANTED FUGITIVE HIDING IN DUBAI: REPORT By Janene Pieters on July 24, 2019 - 08:30
Ridouan Taghi, currently the most wanted fugitive in the Netherlands, is almost certainly hiding in Dubai, newspaper De Telegraaf writes based on sources within the Public Prosecution Service. The police and judiciary are convinced that the net is closing around Taghi, the newspaper writes.
Last week the police called on Dutch to keep an eye out for Taghi and his right-hand man Said Razzouki while holidaying abroad. The two are the main suspects in a series of assassinations in the Netherlands. On Opsporing Verzocht the police said that they might be hiding in Spain, Morocco or Dubai. A reward of 100 thousand euros is offered for the golden tip that leads to each of their arrests.
The police received 29 tips after the broadcast, Public Prosecution Service spokesperson Wim de Bruin said to the newspaper. "Twenty of them were really useful." He would not say whether the authorities believe Taghi is in Dubai. "We make no statements about the investigation into Taghi."
But according to De Telegraaf's sources, he is. "We now have strong indications that Taghi is in Dubai", said one source, who works at the highest level within the Public Prosecution Service according to the newspaper.
The Prosecutor linked Taghi and Razzouki to five assassinations, most of which happened within the Utrecht criminal underworld. According to the Public Prosecutor, Taghi and Razzouki ran a "well-oiled murder organization".
Dutch drug lord arrested in Brazil, gang let it far NOW August 10, 2019 World 28 Views
The police in Goiás, a Brazilian state, have arrested a Dutchman at the head of a criminal organization focused on drug trafficking and money laundering. 11 cars, 13 luxury watches and cash were confiscated.
The police persecuted the gang after a pilot disappeared at the end of last year after a possible crash in Bolivia. The police found during the investigation that he and other pilots worked for the criminal association of the Dutchman, reported local media. To escape the authorities, they flew extremely deep and took dangerous antics.
An airplane seized by the police of Goiás. Photo credits: PolÃcia Civil / Goiás
The cocaine was finally smuggled into Europe and hidden in various products. Among other things, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France were the final destination.
According to the Brazilian police, the gang members did little to disguise their accumulated wealth. For example, some members once used the helicopter for ice cream in the city of Palma.
Criminal gangs infiltrating Dutch police, according to justice ministry AUGUST 24, 2019 14:20 EDITOR MOB WATCH A confidential report from the Ministry of Justice reveals that Dutch police have been infiltrated by organised crime, with officials admitting that the cases under investigation may just be the “tip of the icebergâ€.
Dozens of police officers have been dismissed in recent weeks as a result of investigations into corruption and breach of secrecy, according to a report obtained by the newspaper Algameen Dagblad, which revealed that police divisions across the country have been infiltrated by criminal groups
In July, the daily revealed that the gang led by Ridouan Taghi, who is being tried for drug trafficking and organising a number of gangland murders, had links with a senior officer from Utrecht.
Following an investigation, the officer was fired.
In Limburg, a senior officer was suspended for “potentially unprofessional behaviorâ€, and three members of the team were dismissed following an investigation into four other police officers who were suspended in April.
A 55-year-old member of the Amsterdam Police Division was also suspended and arrested in July for possession of hard drugs, document fraud, manipulation of state computers and disclosure of confidential information.
In the central region of the Netherlands, nineteen police officers are accused of being linked to organised crime.
Other investigations into similar cases are ongoing.
Jan Struijs, President of the NPD Police Union, has called for much more be done to prevent police from being recruited by criminal groups.
“Our colleagues are approached by criminals. This occurs at all levels. Officers must be trained to handle this responsibly,†he said.
A Dutch justice ministry report published in 2017 and seen by the Guardian revealed that about 40 percent of “professional integrity breaches†in the police concerned officers with an immigrant background, who make up 7 percent of police personnel.
The report concluded that officers from immigrant communities were more likely to be approached by criminals offering to recruit them due to the “relatively greater level of involvement of some ethnic groups†in criminal activity, and the extended networks and complex loyalties of immigrant families.
The key witness in the major winding-up process that started this summer has canceled his contract with the Justice Department on protection. That is what De Telegraaf writes. It is about Nabil B., whose innocent brother was shot in Amsterdam last year, a few months after the Public Prosecution Service announced that B. would testify in the trial.
The main suspect in that so-called Marengo trial is Ridouan Taghi, who is a fugitive and most likely to be abroad. He is associated by the judiciary with a series of liquidations.
According to the newspaper, Nabil B. feels cheated by the Witness Protection Team (TGB) of justice and would refuse to work with the team any longer. The breach would have already occurred in April. Attempts to restore the relationship would have failed.
Transfer The dissatisfaction is said to be in the short term that he would be transferred to a normal prison. He is currently staying on a heavily secured wing within the prison complex in Vught.
Neither the Public Prosecution Service nor the lawyer of B. wants to comment against De Telegraaf. The newspaper writes that it is unclear what the consequences are for the process. B. has already made many statements, but may in the future refuse to give additional testimonials or be heard again.
KEY WITNESS' LAWYER ASSASSINATED IN AMSTERDAM By Janene Pieters on September 18, 2019 - 09:23
Update 9:55 a.m. - updated the article with police confirmation of the victim's identity
A man was shot and killed in Buitenveldert in Amsterdam on Wednesday morning. Het Parool and De Telegraaf identify the victim as Derk Wiersum, the lawyer that represented key witness Nabil B. A police officer confirmed this in an interview with AT5, adding that the 44-year-old lawyer lived on Imstenrade where the shooting happened.
Dispatch services sent out an ambulance and a trauma team by helicopter towards the Buitenveldert neighborhood in Amsterdam Zuid at about 7:30 a.m. Police assistance was also requested at the scene on Imstenrade, followed by more emergency personnel.
Emergency services tried to resuscitate the victim, but it was to no avail. He succumbed to his injuries at the scene, the Amsterdam police reported.
The perpetrator fled on foot in the direction of Van Boshuizenstraat. The police are looking for a man between the ages of 16 and 20 years, dressed in black clothing with a hoodie.
“It’s really serious. It’s scary,†said one young neighbor. She remarked how safe the neighborhood is in an interview with AT5.
Wiersum is not the first person connected to Nabil B. to be assassinated. B.'s brother Reduan was killed at his Amsterdam business just a week after the Public Prosecutor announced that it made a suspect turned key witness. The authorities later admitted that they misjudged the risks for B.'s family.
Statements made by Nabil B. linked fugitive Ridouan Taghi to at least eight murders, two attempted murders, and the preparations of two assassinations, Het Parool reported earlier this year.
Another shooting in Amsterdam. A vehicle has just been shot at on the Langbroekdreef, police report. There might be two victims.
A Burgernet report is looking for a suspicious vehicle. It would be a black three-wheeled scooter with two people dressed in dark with black helmets. It is called upon not to act yourself.
Security beefed up for gangland killing legal team after lawyer is murdered CrimeSociety September 19, 2019
Justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus is to meet public prosecution department officials and lawyers representatives on Thursday morning to discuss yesterday’s ‘unprecedented’ murder of a lawyer involved in a gangland killing case.
Derk Wiersum, who was representing Nabil B, a key witness in the case against gangland boss Ridouan Taghi, was shot dead in Amsterdam on Wednesday morning outside his home. Last year Nabil B’s brother was also shot dead, in what is thought to have been a warning to Nabil not to testify.
The aim of the meeting is to try to decide what more can be done to guarantee the safety of lawyers involved in cases of this kind, Grapperhaus told reporters. The chief public prosecutor Fred Westerbeke told current affairs show Nieuwsuur on Wednesday evening that measures have also been taken to protect everyone involved in the case against Taghi.
The counter terrorism unit NCTV is also involved in the investigation into the murder. Westerbeke told Nieuwsuur that Wiersum had discussed safety issues with officials and that some steps had been taken but that murder had not been one of the scenarios under consideration.
Dark phase The AD says in an analysis that the killing of a lawyer marks the beginning of a ‘new, dark phase’ and shows that the underworld is prepared to directly attack the rule of law.
Lawyers, public prosecutors and judges go about their business unguarded, the paper said. ‘The Netherlands is, or was, a country in which the prime minister cycles to work,’ the paper said.
Yet despite Grapperhaus’ anger at the killing, he is also aware that the underworld is tightening its grip on society and that a quarter of the country’s mayors have been threatened by criminals, the paper points out.
The impact of the lawyer's murder is huge. The fight against OC here will never be the same. Judges, prosecutors and attorneys have been put in safe houses and the security around the trial is upgraded to the highest level like we usually only see with terrorism.
During a shooting in front of a cafe in the center of Rotterdam, a 26-year-old man was seriously injured, the police reported. The victim was taken to the hospital.
After the shooting incident, a car with a Belgian license plate would have driven away. The police have closed off a large area to secure any traces and to prevent emergency services from being disturbed. The Rotterdam police are calling on witnesses to pass on tips via 112.
Firearm violence in the city Last week, the municipality, the Public Prosecution Service and the police announced unorthodox measures to tackle the firearm violence in Rotterdam. In the first half of the year there were already 72 shootings in the city, the same as in the whole of 2018.
SECOND LARGEST DRUG LAB IN DUTCH HISTORY FOUND IN KERKRADE By Janene Pieters on October 1, 2019 - 17:00
The Limburg police discovered a massive drug lab in Kerkrade on Monday evening. This is the second largest drug lab ever found in the Netherlands, a spokesperson for the Limburg police said to NU.nl.
The spokesperson called it an "illegal chemical plant" and said that local residents escaped a "disaster", due to a big risk of the lab exploding. The National Dismantling Support Facility is currently helping the police with mapping the laboratory. After that the complex will be dismantled.
So far one man was arrested. He is in custody for questioning. The police expect that more arrests will follow.
Organized crime appears to have been used for the first time in Dutch by the Catholic MP Jan Harte of Tecklenburg (1853-1937). In 1892 he argued for a better police force to be able to better tackle "cosmopolitan organized crime". In the decades that followed, organized crime was used repeatedly in reports about anarchists, Bolsheviks and Communists. An example from a Catholic newspaper from 1906 : "Anarchism is more than crime, it is a system, a philosophical, an organized crime."
Justice will add six or seven murders to the three already charged in the trial against Caloh Wagoh MC if this happens it will be the biggest assassinations case ever even bigger than the current Marengo trial against the Taghi group.
OM: Ridouan Taghi also client in liquidations motor gang Ridouan Taghi, the most wanted man in the Netherlands, was also involved in liquidations in the case of motorcycle gang Caloh Wagoh. The Public Prosecution Service said at an interim session in the extra secure court at Schiphol that Taghi was one of the clients for ten liquidations or attempts to do so.
The justice department also says that the motorcycle gang had three murder cells for carrying out liquidations. The boss of Caloh Wagoh, Delano R. (48), would have controlled it. He is one of the two leaders in the case, alongside 70-year-old Greg R., who is seen as a kind of counselor.
wait In the case, a total of fourteen men are now suspected of being involved in a total of ten liquidations, attempts to do so or preparations. Ridouan Taghi may also be prosecuted in the long term. The OM first wants to await the other trial that is still ongoing against Taghi.
Just as in that process, the Public Prosecution Service also uses a key witness in the Caloh Wagoh case. This man, Tony de G., according to justice was part of such a murder command.
He has made statements about four liquidations and the shelling of the house of a criminal in Doorn. He made a deal with justice because he wanted to leave Caloh Wagoh and feared for his life.
sausage Rolls The murder orders would not only come from Ridouan Taghi, but also from a Turkish suspect. The Public Prosecution Service gets a lot of evidence from message confiscation with Delano R., who remarkably enough kept copies of the secret communication on his computer.
"As if it were Brabant sausage rolls, people are talking about killing people," the public prosecutor said about a number of suspects. "They run a cow business in liquidations. A sort of hit with jargon."
Intercepted messages mention a price of 70,000 euros per person, including 'irons and bicycles' (weapons and flight cars). "If you use your own irons and bicycles a ton. We don't sell anything to enemies, only death."
"Ridouan Taghi on the radar of American DEA" (UPDATE) October 18, 2019
"Ridouan Taghi on the radar of American DEA" (UPDATE) The American drug investigation organization DEA thinks that the fugitive Ridouan Taghi is part of a kind of super cartel. Together with leading figures from the Italian, Irish and Bosnian Mafia from Dubai, he would control a large part of the European cocaine trade. The AD publishes that Friday but BN / De Stem and Crimesite published about it last month.
BN / De Stem and Crimesite based themselves on pieces in Bosnian media that have been online for a long time. The documents were leaked from a request for legal assistance from the Netherlands to Bosnia. The documents show that the Public Prosecution Service in the Netherlands received information from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in August 2018 about an alleged drug cartel in which various Dutch people were allegedly active.
Rico and Noffel Similarly, Taghi's alleged criminal partner Richard R. , nicknamed Rico de Chileen, and the lifelong- convicted Naoufal "Noffel" F. would be counted by the DEA as part of this network.
Edin G. Edin G. from Bosnia and Herzegovina would also be part of the super cartel. According to DEA, this G., of whom some family members would be active in the Netherlands and who himself grew up in Brabant, is the leader of the so-called Tito and Dino cartel, one of the 50 largest drug organizations in the world. The American information provided shows that more than 14 tonnes of cocaine were intercepted in 2017, linking the police to Edin G., including 5,300 kilos from MedellÃn (Colombia) in the port of Antwerp, worth 200 million euros (13 October 2017). ( Text continues under the ads. )
Daniel Kinahan The police records also show that the DEA had an observation team running at Daniel Kinahan's wedding in the expensive Burj al Arab, with an average overnight price of $ 24,000 one of the most exclusive hotels in the world. During the party they see, among others, Edin G. and Rafaele Imperiale, an Italian who is linked to the Italian Mafia and who lived in the Netherlands for some time and was involved in the healing of the stolen Van Gogh paintings. Imperiale has been sentenced in absentia in Italy to 18 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering. In December 2018, the Dutch OM already announced that it saw a connection between Rico de Chileen, Ridouan Taghi and Imperiale. It relied mainly on decrypted PGP messages.
Kinahan and Imperiale would also collaborate with the Taghi group, the DEA suspects.
Dubai The super cartel would operate from Dubai. The police estimate in the documents that 100,000 kilos of cocaine are smuggled to the port of Rotterdam every year. This network would account for a third of them. In 2018, more than 19,000 kilos of cocaine were seized in the port of Rotterdam.
Attorneys The lawyers of some of the people mentioned above say in the AD that their clients are not prosecuted for drug trafficking.
Leon van Kleef, lawyer "Rico de Chileen": "I note that there is currently no charge against my client for the possession of drugs or the smuggling thereof. There is no drug charge. Not in America, South America or in Europe. "
Inez Weski, until Thursday Ridouan Taghi's lawyer in the Marengo trial: "It can only be established that this is the umpteenth series of very indefinite and apparently unsubstantiated reports."
Menno Buntsma, lawyer of Edin G .: "Justice confirms that the client is not a suspect in this affair, neither in Bosnia nor in the Netherlands, and no criminal complaint against the client has been filed worldwide."
Local residents shooting: "Happened in front of his wife's nose" By MARTIJN SCHOOLENBERG
Updated 21 min ago 1 hour ago in INTER
AMSTERDAM - Local residents of Hugo de Grootplein in Amsterdam-West were deeply touched by the shooting this afternoon. One person died in the shooting. "It happened right in front of his wife's nose." Another victim was seriously injured.
Around a quarter to four in the afternoon, loud shots suddenly sounded in the street, says the manager of the square fish shop. "I immediately ran outside and heard screams."
According to the manager of the adjacent tapas bar, a man with a gun had just entered the pizzeria La Piccola Baracca. "And there he shot the owner. A cook of ours first thought that someone in the pizzeria had dropped something. But then it turned out to be shots. So close, horrible. I saw one of his co-workers running outside screaming, he too was hit. â€The police cannot yet confirm whether the owner, according to acquaintances, is a man with an Eastern European background.
Scream Another nearby man indicates that she has also come to grips with the screaming. "I just wanted to get coffee in a shop here, when suddenly I heard people screaming. When I turned around, I just saw the man's legs lying on the floor. "
According to the manager of the fish shop, the owner was hit in the throat. "Then his wife started to cry very hard. It happened right in front of her. Terrible. And I saw a guy, possibly one of his waiters, sitting on a chair with a tea towel on his stomach. He got there. "
The entrance to the pizzeria, florist and tapas bar was closed off with a red and white ribbon on Wednesday afternoon. Three ambulance cars and five police cars are in the middle of Hugo de Grootplein. Dozens of local residents are watching behind the ribbons.
'Quite howling' for a friendly man One of them, a middle-aged woman, is deeply affected by the drama. "So horrible. When I heard it, I had to cry. I have eaten once with the owner. He really was a very friendly, hard-working man. Sure, you never know what someone is doing in the background, but I just can't imagine. â€
The size is full for her. "This is the umpteenth incident in the last few months. A grenade has also exploded in my street. I was born and raised here, but it has just become criminal here. "
Sixteen killed by violence The police have since been able to arrest a suspect on the Admiraal de Ruijterweg. The police do take into account that there is still a suspect on the run.
This year, 16 people have already been killed in violence in Amsterdam. That is one more than in the whole of 2018.
The real target was Jovan Djurovic who was seriously injured. Jovan Djurovic's brother is Luka Djurovic, who was killed in a road accident in October 2013, and who was close to Zemun clan chief Luka Bojovic.
The real target was Jovan Djurovic who was seriously injured. Jovan Djurovic's brother is Luka Djurovic, who was killed in a road accident in October 2013, and who was close to Zemun clan chief Luka Bojovic.
How is the classic penoze doing in Amsterdam? Also "under the radar" or dead-as-a-doornail?
They tried to kill Jovan Djurovic last year too, In august last year he had bomb under his car and that bomb came off his car while he was driving and exploded behind him. They also tried to kill him in 2017 with a sniper rifle but the shooter missed. Filip Korac who is most powerful crime boss in Balkans is hiding in Amsterdam, he never served any prison time.
Well times has changed so has the penoze. The last 10 years, the municipality of Amsterdam has been busy "cleaning up" the Red Light District for example. However the Top of organized crime in the heart of Amsterdam's city center are still mainly criminals of Dutch origin.
The 42-year-old Michael B. has been sentenced by the court in The Hague to a 10-year prison sentence for possession of weapons and the detonation of two hand grenades in the center of Delft. The attacks in May of last year focused on 2 cannabis coffeeshops, The Game and The Future. A passer-by was injured in the face.
The prosecution had demanded 12 years in prison. Two weeks ago, fellow suspect Dean P. (24) heard 8 years in prison. P. was acquitted by the court on Friday for the attacks on the coffeeshops. He does have to be in jail for 21 months for possession of weapons and influence of a witness.
Michael B. has a long criminal record. In 2002 he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the so-called Irish bathtub murder . The Irish Damien Monaghan and the brothers Vincent and Morgan Costello were shot. Their bodies were cut into pieces in a bathtub and set on fire.
'Victim shooting Amsterdam is a member of underworld family'
Oct. 27 2019 in INTERIOR
AMSTERDAM - The 29-year-old Brennan Dalfour who was shot dead in the night from Saturday to Sunday in the Jacob Krausstraat in Amsterdam-Slotervaart is the brother of Marlon Dalfour, who was disabled in August 2009 due to a murder attempt by the 'tattookillers'.
Het Parool reports that. According to the newspaper, the family has a strong reputation in the Amsterdam underworld.
A third brother, Michael, suffered a spinal cord injury in the same year due to a shooting in front of Club Zebra Lounge in the Leidsebuurt
Their cousin Brian 'Dalla' Dalfour, then president of the Amsterdam chapter of motorcycle gang No Surrender, was shot dead in October 2015 together with Macedonian Muljaim Nadzak in a holiday home in Hooge Zwaluwe.
The family also had ties with Gwenette Martha, an underworld leader, who was liquidated in Amstelveen in May 2014.
All those guys are living most of the time in Marbella.
Brennan Dalfour (29), shot dead on Sunday, was preparing a hit in Diemen in 2011. According to Het Parool, the idea was that he had been working on it together with Jair Wessels and Omar T.
The Amsterdam criminal Jair Wessels was liquidated in 2017 and Omar T. was sentenced to two years in prison in 2015 for the grenade attack on the Amsterdam court.
Wessels was most likely killed on the orders of the Taghi group.
Do you have an idea whether the former Ajax players that got into the dope and extortion rackets like Mike Offenbach and Donny Huysen are still in business in Amsterdam?
Do you have an idea whether the former Ajax players that got into the dope and extortion rackets like Mike Offenbach and Donny Huysen are still in business in Amsterdam?
Mike Offenberg I haven't heard about him in recent years but he's in his early 40s so I don't think he has retired has been linked with his brother Robbie to the coke business in the past. Huysen lives in Marbella so my guess he is still involved in shady stuff everybody over there is lol.
LMAO yeah when a Dutchman moves to Marbella - as it is with an Englishman, Irishman or Scotsman - you can't help but think there's something shady going on.
LMAO yeah when a Dutchman moves to Marbella - as it is with an Englishman, Irishman or Scotsman - you can't help but think there's something shady going on.
It's unbelievable look at all those Sunseeker yachts in Puerto Banus and the Spanish authorities never bother them it all started with the former mayor of Marbella Jesús Gil y Gil.
A man was shot dead on the Putsebocht in Rotterdam. No arrests have yet been made. Police say witnesses have seen a "dark-clad man" run away. The police did not report anything about the identity of the victim and the circumstances of the incident.
It's unbelievable look at all those Sunseeker yachts in Puerto Banus and the Spanish authorities never bother them it all started with the former mayor of Marbella Jesús Gil y Gil.
Lol yeah in some parts of Spain they're happy to provide a safe space for European OC in general. Spanish OC itself is not a big time thing; it's like the Spanish themselves have their smugglers in Galicia and Andalusia as well as some gypsy drug dealers, but when you take the bigger picture none of them are major players. Some of the Spanish LE on the other hand are dirty as hell: an OC group throws some cash and hookers their way and they're good.
It's unbelievable look at all those Sunseeker yachts in Puerto Banus and the Spanish authorities never bother them it all started with the former mayor of Marbella Jesús Gil y Gil.
Lol yeah in some parts of Spain they're happy to provide a safe space for European OC in general. Spanish OC itself is not a big time thing; it's like the Spanish themselves have their smugglers in Galicia and Andalusia as well as some gypsy drug dealers, but when you take the bigger picture none of them are major players. Some of the Spanish LE on the other hand are dirty as hell: an OC group throws some cash and hookers their way and they're good.
Gangster's Paradise ! Under Jesús Gil in the 90s you also had many Russians and Italians. Also Saudi's the Khashoggi family occupied one of the largest villa estates in Marbella, called Baraka, hosting lavish parties.
'King of the Brabant underworld' arrested, major campaign at caravan camp The Oss criminal Martien R. (48) and his son Anton (26) were arrested on Wednesday at a large police action in Oss. His lawyer Jan-Hein Kuijpers confirms this. In total, three people were arrested. They are suspected of large-scale drug trafficking, serious violence, intimidation, membership of a criminal organization and possession of firearms. Including a shooting on the A73 near Nijmegen.
Among the weapons found hidden underground in the forest 8 AK-47s and 2 M16s
BRABANT "CRIMINAL FAMILY NETWORK" ARRESTED IN OSS; MACHINE GUNS, DRUGS SEIZED By Janene Pieters on November 14, 2019 - 14:20
Over 100 police officers raid a caravan camp on Hoogheuvelstraat in Oss where the "Godfather of Brabant" was arrested, 13 Nov 2019Photo: Politie
The police tackled what they call a "criminal family network" in Oss, Noord-Brabant on Wednesday. Three men, believed to be the leaders of this criminal network, were arrested. During searches at a caravan camp and other places in Oss, the police found and confiscated automatic firearms, drugs and cash. Possible explosives were also found.
At around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, a police SWAT team forced a car off Hoogheuvelstraat and arrested the driver, a 48-year-old man from Oijen. At around the same time, two men aged 55 and 26 were arrested at the nearby caravan camp, also by a SWAT team. They form part of the same family.
"An extensive and long-term criminal investigation into the criminal family has revealed that the three leaders of this family are involved in drug trafficking on a large scale, in which serious violence and intimidation are not shied away from", the police said in a statement. The three men are also suspected of membership to a criminal organization, and illegal firearm possession. They are in restricted custody, which means they are only allowed contact with their lawyers.
Omroep Brabant identifies one of the suspects as Martien R. from Oijen, calling him the "Godfather of Brabant". According to the broadcaster, he is suspected of multiple assassinations and attacks.
The police closed down the caravan camp on Hoogheuvelstraat and the area around it for investigation. "We think that the criminal activities of the family were planned at this camp", the police said. The camp and other areas in Oss will be combed for cash, drugs and firearms. This thorough search is expected to take multiple days, so alternative accommodation was arranged for the residents of the caravan camp.
During the searches on Wednesday, the police found and confiscated multiple automatic firearms, other firearms, hard drugs, and cash from multiple places. In one hidden area, possible explosives were found on Wednesday afternoon. Experts from the Ministry of Defense's explosive removal department were called in to investigate.
The police will only release more details about the results of this extensive raid, involving over 100 cops, at a later time. "The searchers are still ongoing and an inventory has yet to be made", the police said.
They only arrested Reuvers, but the others, at least three big players, are still free. Martien became too high profile with all that violence and keeping all those pills and weapons nearby wasn't really smart either. They are suspected of being involved in the transport of one hundred kilos of MDMA, Martien would also have imported more than 1500 kilos of cocaine and once more than 300 kilos of cocaine. He was a suspect in various major cases in recent years, but in most cases he was acquitted. Or he got away with a light punishment. Or cases were not prosecuted because the chance of a conviction was too small.
The 40-year-old drug lord Dennis V . from Landgraaf was found dead in his cell in Brazil. According to local media, he committed suicide. The organization led by the Dutchman is suspected of large-scale drug trafficking, he was arrested in Brazil in August.
They only arrested Reuvers, but the others, at least three big players, are still free. Martien became too high profile with all that violence and keeping all those pills and weapons nearby wasn't really smart either. They are suspected of being involved in the transport of one hundred kilos of MDMA, Martien would also have imported more than 1500 kilos of cocaine and once more than 300 kilos of cocaine. He was a suspect in various major cases in recent years, but in most cases he was acquitted. Or he got away with a light punishment. Or cases were not prosecuted because the chance of a conviction was too small.
Yeah I'd be hard pressed to think that they're done. It's a large family with an even larger network. Possibly talking hundreds. So they're still up and running. I know they had a well publicized feud with Albert K. and his family.
TWO DETAINED IN AMSTERDAM DEFENSE ATTORNEY'S SLAYING By Zack Newmark on November 19, 2019 - 21:52
Police detained two persons of interest connected to the murder of criminal defense attorney Derk Wiersum. The arrests were announced on television show Opsporing Verzocht on Tuesday night.
The duo were taken into custody for their possible roles in fencing a stolen vehicle allegedly used to monitor Wiersum shortly before he was killed. They were questioned and released, police said.
The attorney and father of two was shot dead in September while standing in front of his Amsterdam-Buitenveldert home with his wife. One person was previously arrested in the case about the same time police discovered a white Opel Combo found in Almere that was used as the getaway car.
He was representing Nabil B. at the time, a crown witness in the so-called Marengo Trials. The legal process involves 16 suspects in a string of homicides, assassination attempts, and murder plots.
The police asked for the public's help a week ago to identify people linked to the three stolen vehicles, including a Volkswagen Transporter and a Renault Megane. Authorities received 37 tips after the show was aired.
There were also raids in Friesland in the north of the netherlands.
EXPLOSIVE FOUND IN RAIDS AGAINST BRABANT ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY By Janene Pieters on November 21, 2019 - 12:40
On Thursday the police continued raids against the "Godfather of Noord-Brabant" Martien R. and his family by closing down and searching a caravan park in Lith. The intensive search was stalled by the discovery of an explosive. Police officers asked members of the press to stay at a distance while explosive experts from the Ministry of Defense were called in to investigate, Omroep Brabant and De Telegraaf report.
This investigation, called operation Alfa, really got going last week with the arrests of R., his brother and his son, and raids on a caravan park in Oss. There too the police found an explosive.
The three men arrested last week are still in custody. They are suspected of large-scale drug dealing, illegal weapons possession, and participation in a criminal organization. During searches in Oss, the police found a large number of firearms, including automatic firearms, drugs, and cash.
Investigators expect to find similar contraband while searching the caravan park in Lith.
According to the Telegraaf, operation Alfa is the largest operation against the Noord-Brabant criminal underworld to date. The province forms the heart of synthetic drug production in the Netherlands.
Once again, the Brabant detectives encountered a large arsenal of weapons in Oss. A large amount of machine guns and Kalashnikovs were discovered in a delivery van at a warehouse on a business park. The police are investigating whether they are from the "crime family" R.
NET CLOSING AROUND RIDOUAN TAGHI; AUTHORITIES FOCUSED ON ISLAND IN PERSIAN GULF: REPORT By Janene Pieters on November 27, 2019 - 08:29
Riduouan Taghi, considered the most wanted fugitive criminal in the Netherlands, is likely staying on Kish - an island in the Persian Gulf, an about two-hour boat ride from Dubai, the Telegraaf reports based on "multiple sources" within and outside the investigative services. The Netherlands has no extradition treaty with Kish.
In July the Telegraaf wrote that Taghi was "almost certainly" hiding in Dubai.
Taghi and the drug-centered criminal organization he allegedly runs were linked to at least nine assassinations and a series of failed or never implemented murder plots by Nabil B., a criminal turned key witness. B.'s lawyer Derk Wiersum was murdered at his home in Amsterdam in September. The authorities believe he was killed because he was representing the key witness.
Last month newspaper AD reported that Ridouan Taghi is part of a "super cartel" that controls around a third of the cocaine trade in Europe. Other members of this cartel include leaders from the Italian, Irish and Bosnian mafias, the newspaper wrote based on verified documents in its possession.
The Public Prosecutor also linked Taghi to outlaw motorcycle gang Caloh Wagoh. In a hearing last month against 12 members of the biker gang, suspected of involvement in at least three assassinations, the Prosecutor said that it has evidence Taghi ordered Caloh Wagoh to commit murders on his behalf.
They only arrested Reuvers, but the others, at least three big players, are still free. Martien became too high profile with all that violence and keeping all those pills and weapons nearby wasn't really smart either. They are suspected of being involved in the transport of one hundred kilos of MDMA, Martien would also have imported more than 1500 kilos of cocaine and once more than 300 kilos of cocaine. He was a suspect in various major cases in recent years, but in most cases he was acquitted. Or he got away with a light punishment. Or cases were not prosecuted because the chance of a conviction was too small.
Yeah I'd be hard pressed to think that they're done. It's a large family with an even larger network. Possibly talking hundreds. So they're still up and running. I know they had a well publicized feud with Albert K. and his family.
Yes Albert ordered the murder of Martien's cousins Koos and Martin Reuvers which was exposed in the TV show of Peter de Vries unlike most of the gangs today the traveler crime families like Reuvers, Kraus, Baum, Netten go back at least 100 years.
They only arrested Reuvers, but the others, at least three big players, are still free. Martien became too high profile with all that violence and keeping all those pills and weapons nearby wasn't really smart either. They are suspected of being involved in the transport of one hundred kilos of MDMA, Martien would also have imported more than 1500 kilos of cocaine and once more than 300 kilos of cocaine. He was a suspect in various major cases in recent years, but in most cases he was acquitted. Or he got away with a light punishment. Or cases were not prosecuted because the chance of a conviction was too small.
Yeah I'd be hard pressed to think that they're done. It's a large family with an even larger network. Possibly talking hundreds. So they're still up and running. I know they had a well publicized feud with Albert K. and his family.
Yes Albert ordered the murder of Martien's cousins Koos and Martin Reuvers which was exposed in the TV show of Peter de Vries unlike most of the gangs today the traveler crime families like Reuvers, Kraus, Baum, Netten go back at least 100 years.
Any idea how powerful Kraus (or some of the other families) are compared to Reuvers?
Any idea how powerful Kraus (or some of the other families) are compared to Reuvers?
Koos Reuvers was the right hand of Johan Verhoek so I would say they are at the top in the underworld they raided his camp in Lith last week but I think he lives near Marbella most of the time. The other families alle have big networks so difficult to say how strong they are. Another family are the Pfaffs yvon Pfaff a Belgian was killed some years ago he was from Ochten not far from Oss. They are related to Jean-Marie Pfaff.
Naima Jillal (52), who disappeared without a trace in October from Amsterdam, was active at the highest level in the cocaine business, writes De telegraaf on the basis of various sources. Jillal operated from the Spanish city of Malaga as a sort of 'drug broker' and brought top criminals together for business, the newspaper said.
The missing woman appears in a long-running investigation into international coke trade and money laundering. She would be a key player in this.
Earlier, the police confirmed that the disappearance of Jillal may be related to a conflict in the underworld .
Jillal has disappeared since Sunday 20 October in the Amsterdam Zuidas. She got into a dark car at around 21:30 that evening at the intersection of Gustav Mahlerlaan with Leonard Bernsteinstraat. That was near her home.
Several suspects were arrested in the case, but these were also released .
The national authorities of Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and Norway, with the active support of Eurojust, have taken down an organised crime group (OCG) involved in drug trafficking. The investigation showed that a transport company based in the Netherlands was involved in smuggling large quantities of drugs to several European countries.
Dutch suspects were arrested in the following countries: one in the Netherlands, one in Germany, one in Spain, three in Italy, one in Sweden, one in the UK, and three in Norway.
Seizures were conducted in all countries, for a combined total of 4 tonnes of hashish, 200 kg of amphetamines, 64 kg of cocaine, 45 kg of MDMA, and 25 kg of heroin. As an expansion of the Eurojust case, 50 suspects were charged in Norway.
In 2017, the number of violent activities, including shootings, increased in Oslo. The Norwegian authorities initiated an investigation into an OCG, with clear links between southern countries and Nordic countries, but also involving countries in central Europe. Due to the cross-border dimension of the investigation, a Eurojust case was opened in September 2018, which targeted the alleged Moroccan and Dutch main suspects, including Dutch trucking and transport firms. A Norwegian court recently sentenced one of the main suspects to 19 years’ imprisonment and confiscated more than EUR 4.5 million.
A Danish court recently sentenced two suspects to two and six years’ confinement, respectively.
A German court recently sentenced one perpretrator to eight years’ imprisonment for the possession of illicit drugs.
Gang of son-in-law Klaas Otto was behind a deadly drug lab In the investigation into a large drug gang, which is supposed to be behind a Belgian drug lab where three young lab technicians were killed in January, the police arrested four suspects again. During new police actions in Tiel, Culemborg and Geffen, men of 37, 38, 59 and 62 years were arrested this morning.
Hessel de Ree 10-12-19, 09:34 Last update: 11:32
The criminal network, which also includes the son-in-law of No Surrender founder Klaas Otto, produces synthetic drugs on a large scale. According to the police, the gang, of which sixteen suspects have now been arrested, is also behind an amphetamine lab that was rolled up in Esch in Brabant in July.
That lab, with a large 1,000-liter production boiler, was hidden in a basement of a home. The same month the police in Rilland in Zeeland discovered a storage of drug chemicals, laboratory equipment and residues of MDMA, the active substance in XTC.
Early this morning the police invaded four houses and garage companies. The detective had actually wanted to arrest the suspects here at the end of last month, along with the arrest of a group of four suspects around Paul G. (35) in Bergen op Zoom. But the police did not have enough capacity at the time.
G. is the son-in-law of Klaas Otto and is said to be one of the people who pulled the strings in the criminal network. According to his lawyer, he denies any involvement. In the investigation into Bergenaar, the investigation also raided jewelers in Belgium. This is related to the suspicion that, among others, G. drug money would be laundering through the purchase and sale of expensive watches.
Drama The police suspect most suspects of involvement in the large-scale production of synthetic drugs such as amphetamine and xtc. The suspects are supposed to be behind at least three drug labs. Four people were arrested at the end of November, including G. and men in Steenbergen, Renesse and Almere. At that time there were searches at nine addresses.
After the drama in the lab in Hechtel-Exel, in which three young drug researchers were killed in January, the police already arrested five suspects. A 22-, 23- and 25-year-old from Eindhoven died in the laboratory. Probably due to carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of a defect or an incorrect action.
Tenacious It is unclear whether the police themselves also have an eye on Otto in this case. The man has been in jail for more than two years and is waiting for his appeal. He was sentenced to six years in prison for money laundering, extortion, assault and threats.
It is clear that after his conviction, Otto's family and entourage have received a great deal of attention from the judiciary and the police. They have been very persistent in the persecution of Otto himself in recent years. The police and the judiciary see him as one of the most powerful criminals in the South of the Netherlands, but according to the man from Bergen op Zoom, they are completely wrong and he is the victim of a crackdown on justice.
Operation Alfa resumed: new arrests at caravan camp in Oss Arrests were made again on Tuesday caravan camp on Hoogheuvelstraat in Oss in the context of Operation Alfa.
Iris van den Berg Dec. 10 2019 Last update: 12:16 Source: Brabants Dagblad
According to the police, there are multiple arrests, including at the camp on Hoogheuvelstraat in Oss. The number of people arrested is not yet known.
Police are currently present in and around the home of Martien R., the previously arrested leader of a criminal family in Oss, in the Koolzaadweg in Berghem . That building has been searched once before.
Arrests during Operation Alfa Operation Alfa began on 13 November with a raid on the caravan camp in Oss and the arrests of Martien R. (48), his brother Toon (55) and his son Anton (26). Arrests will be made again on Monday 25 November. A total of four men are arrested in Den Bosch, Helmond and Oss. According to the police, they are four leaders from the same criminal organization as the R. family from Oss. The police don't want to say if it's family.
Andy Kraag, head of the national criminal investigation department: "On average three thousand drug-related murders are committed in Mexico every month. Due to the enormous corruption, the cartels have free rein. The production of crystal meth is limitless and now much higher than the demand from the most important market, the United States. The Mexican drug cartels are looking for a new market. Europe is one of those markets, alongside New Zealand and Australia. "
The Telegraaf revealed earlier this year that Mexican 'meth chefs' had been arrested for the first time in an ongoing drug investigation. That is the name of the men who produce synthetic drugs in labs. Sometimes under dire circumstances. "This year we picked up Mexicans in three investigations. It may well be a kind of 'freelancer', but they are related to the Mexican cartels, "says Kraag.
Cooperation with cartels The chief of the national criminal investigation department is convinced of the close cooperation between mainly Brabant criminal organizations and Mexican cartels. "The Mexican chefs do not come here on their own. There are alliances. They don't tell the police anything. The conditions for production are favorable here. Labs can easily switch from other synthetic drugs to crystal meth. The lines for the supply of raw materials already exist, the hardware for production is already there and if you get caught here, the penalties are relatively low. â€
"The conditions for production are favorable here." But how does a Brabant pills farmer (ecstasy producer) come into contact with a chef from, for example, the Sinaloa or El Chapo cartel? "That is fairly easy. Sometimes parties already know each other from a drug environment, sometimes it goes through. Then there is a physical meeting once and then everything goes through encryption telephones. For example, criminals from Brabant came into contact with criminals in Australia and set up a good line for the MDMA drug. â€
Dangerous and lucrative This investigation resulted in a series of arrests in both countries this fall and the capture of amounts of MDMA worth many millions of euros. "But the Australians are much more concerned about crystal meth. The drug is considerably more dangerous and is gaining popularity. Crystal meth delivers ten times as much there and here as MDMA or XTC. â€
The Netherlands is mainly a production country, but sometimes also transit country for crystal meth or 'ice', as it is also called. In June the criminal investigation department discovered 2500 kilos of meth in a Rotterdam warehouse with a staggering street value of several hundred million euros. The party was probably destined for another country, such as Australia.
Here we go again. Today was a trial day against the Taghi Group surrounded by huge security.
A man was shot dead today around 5.15 pm at the parking lot of Health City gym in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam. According to insiders, it would be an assassination. According to a source, the victim was driving an armored BMW. His identity is not yet known, he had a child in the car. The police were looking for a Volkswagen Transporter of an old model with blinded rear windows shortly after the shooting.
Not much later a burnt-out car was found by the police on the Buitensingel in Duivendrecht. The area has been dismissed by the police as a crime scene.
A well-informed source reports that the victim in Amstelveen is Rachid K. (39), known as the former bookkeeper of druglord Samir 'Scarface' Bouyakhrichan who was shot dead in Marbella five years ago. Rachid was only recently back in the Netherlands, he had recently lived in Morocco.
Ridouan Taghi, alleged 'Angels of Death' boss, arrested in Dubai Police say 41-year-old, one of the most wanted men in the Netherlands, entered the UAE using a fake identity last year.
6 hours ago Dutch officials speak to the press after the announcement of the arrest of Ridouan Taghi [Jeroen Jumelet/AFP]
A man described as one of the most wanted criminals in the Netherlands has been arrested in Dubai, according to authorities.
Ridouan Taghi, the alleged head of a cocaine-trafficking gang known as "Angels of Death", was detained after a joint operation that involved local police, Dutch authorities and the Interpol, the state-run Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported on Monday.
Moroccan-born Taghi, 41, was wanted on international arrest warrants for murder and drug trafficking. The organisation he allegedly runs was linked to nine assassinations and a number of failed murder attempts, according to Dutch media.
WAM said an arrest warrant had been issued for Taghi last year after he allegedly entered the United Arab Emirates using a fake identity.
"After receiving a request from the authorities, a team from the Dubai Police carried out an investigation and arrested Tagh[i] from his accommodation in Dubai," WAM's report said.
Dutch police chief Erik Akerboom said Taghi's arrest was of "great importance for the Netherlands" and followed cooperation between the two countries.
Taghi hit the headlines in September when a Dutch lawyer for a state witness in a case against him was shot dead near his home in Amsterdam.
The killing of lawyer Derk Wiersum, a father of two, increased pressure mounted on Dutch authorities to act. Police in the Netherlands had offered a reward of 100,000 euros ($111,500) for information leading to Taghi's arrest.
Wiersum was the lawyer for a state witness named Nabil B in a huge case against Taghi and another suspect wanted on similar charges, Said Razzouki.
At the time, one of the main Dutch police unions said that the lawyer's shooting was "confirmation that we live in a narco-state".
The police made five other arrests in Amsterdam, Huis ter Heide, Utrecht and Vianen on Monday evening in addition to the arrest of the sister of the criminal Ridouan Taghi. According to the national police unit, these are people who would belong to the organization of Taghi.
It was announced on Monday evening that one of Taghi's sisters was arrested in Vianen in the area where Taghi grew up. Police and OM see an important role for the Taghi family who were arrested in Dubai on Monday morning.
Two of his sisters have been interrogated by the police before. Two brothers are in prison in Morocco. And earlier this month, Taghi's cousin was also arrested in the investigation into the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum. The family members would mainly form a link between Taghi and the perpetrators of crime.
Following Monday's arrest of Taghi in Dubai, a total of eight house searches were made and six suspects arrested. In addition to Taghi's sister, there are five men between the ages of 29 and 45. The searches were in Amsterdam, Huis ter Heide, Utrecht and Vianen. The suspects have been arrested for money laundering, possession of weapons and possession of drugs.
Detective chief Andy Kraag of the national investigation said on Monday that with the arrest of Taghi the operation against the top criminal is far from over. "We're going to dismantle the entire organization," Kraag said yesterday.
Yep the Americans (DEA) also played a role in this. There are fears we will now see a powerstruggle similar to when Rizzuto and El Chapo went away.
I don't think this will happen. Taghi was probably just one-of-the-many. Only LE was focusing on him because they connected a lot of brazen actions to his name. There's plenty of big fish operating behind the scenes on who Taghi's actions didn't have any effect and they will just carry on operating like they did - until of course LE finds another big target to hit.
On Monday there was also a pro forma session against Rico.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Rico the Chilean, Ridouan Taghi, who was arrested Monday in Dubai, and Camorra boss Rafaele Imperiale, together formed the leadership of a globally operating criminal network that commissioned murders, imported cocaine and millions of money laundered.
The file on the investigation into the alleged criminal organization of Rico is almost complete. In a pro forma session on Monday the Public Prosecution Service gave a broad insight into the suspicions against the Dutch Chilean Richard "Rico" R. (46). The trial could start in June 2020.
According to the OM, many people worked together in the criminal organization who do not all know each other. The network is said to be composed of several smaller networks.
Police chief Dubai: Taghi was anxiously hiding in a luxury villa NEWS HOUR Ridouan Taghi had entrenched himself in a villa in a new-build district of Dubai. He rarely left the house and took precautions to stay invisible. That tells police chief Jamal Al Jallaf who was involved in the arrest of the criminal, in conversation with Nieuwsuur . "Taghi was careful, very careful."
"The curtains of the house were always closed, no light came out. You could not see from outside if there was someone inside. You could not see if anyone went in or out," says Al Jallaf. . "Taghi wanted to prevent it from being seen if anyone was in the house."
The criminal also had no contact with official authorities. "He was helped by friends or acquaintances." Those contacts ultimately played a role in his discovery, the police chief says. "We were able to connect information about the people who helped him to each other. This confirmed his presence in the house."
"Then a plan was set up for the arrest and we entered the villa. We found him there." Taghi did not object to the arrest, police chief says. "He immediately surrendered." In addition to Taghi, a woman was also arrested. "She has an Asian nationality and is seen as a friend of Taghi."
There have been suspicions for a long time that Taghi was in Dubai. According to Al Allaf, he previously traveled between different countries in the region. "He came to Dubai in 2016. Taghi came in on an official Dutch passport, but in the name of someone else. He did not enter the country on the surname Taghi."
"Successful extradition to the Netherlands" According to Al Jallaf, the criminal will be extradited to the Netherlands. "I don't know how long it will take. But if all legal proceedings here have been completed through the prosecutor, in collaboration with the Dutch police, then Taghi will be extradited to the Netherlands."
Yesterday, the arrest of Taghi was announced. The result of an "intensive cooperation" between the Dutch police and the emirate. Although the police chief is not formally concerned, he sees no problems for a successful extradition. "When everything is completed, it will be delivered as quickly as possible."
According to him, there are no extradition requests from other countries. "We have not received anything from any other country." That is relevant because Taghi is also wanted by Morocco because of a 'mistaken murder' in Marrakesh. Morocco, unlike the Netherlands, does have an extradition treaty with Dubai.
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"Well-oiled killing machine" Ridouan Taghi is the prime suspect in the so-called Marengo trial, which deals with five murders and several liquidation attempts. Nabil B., who made incriminating statements about Taghi and his organization before the winding-up process.
The Public Prosecution Service described Taghi's criminal group and his right-hand man Said Razzouki as "a well-oiled murder organization". Dozens of people still receive security because of the threat from his group. With the arrest of Taghi, that threat is probably not over.
'Possible attack thwarted in Arnhem prison' By JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL AND MICK VAN WELY Updated 2 hours ago Today, 19:32 in INTERIOR
ARNHEM - Special units of police, justice and the prison system have started a large-scale search in the prison in Arnhem this evening to prevent the liquidation of a prisoner. Search teams of a total of 150 investigators searched cells and searched prisoners. A targeted search was made for data carriers such as smartphones. The immediate reason for the action is information about a possible attack within the walls of the Arnhem penitentiary institution. The assassination attempt would be carried out because of a fight within the criminal milieu. Rare situation Inspection dogs were also used during the inspections. Large-scale searches are more common, but rarely because of indications that prisoners want to kill each other. Justice did not want to make any further announcements about the results of the search tonight.
The authorities in Dubai deported Ridouan Taghi to the Netherlands during the night. Taghi is now being held in the most secure prison facility in the country, the EBI located in Vught, Noord-Brabant. The next hearing in the Marengo process is scheduled for February.
About fifty murders at home and abroad, the same number of suspects waiting in a cell for trial and at least four hundred years in prison with the ultimate punishment prison for life and the death penalty. That is roughly the balance of eight years of war within the 'Mocro Mafia'.
In Zwolle, 52-year-old Henk W. was shot dead on New Year's Eve. The man was an acquaintance in the criminal environment. The perpetrator was not arrested. It was the fifth shooting in Zwolle in four months. Henk W. was an alleged leader of a criminal group dealing in arms and drugs. The court in Zwolle ruled in May of last year that he could await the substantive treatment of his case after one year in custody. The case would be dealt with in substance by mid-2020.
This has never happened here before, the guys have succeeded there won't be many turncoats in the near future.
Nabil B., the key witness in the Marengo liquidation process against a group of sixteen men around prime suspect Ridouan Taghi, has two new lawyers. For security reasons, the two counselors will assist Nabil B. anonymously, NRC reports.
That their identity is protected is done at the express request of the two counselors. The Amsterdam Bar Association has decided to support the two lawyers in this and has checked their identity. On December 23, the order confirmed in a letter to the examining magistrate that the two advisers of B. are registered as lawyers. This guarantees that Nabil B. can be assisted by two new lawyers.
Derk Wiersum B.'s lawyer, Derk Wiersum, was shot dead in Amsterdam in September. Then there were some lawyers who wanted to assist the crown witness anonymously, but they stopped for security reasons.
The police arrested the 38-year-old Abderrahim B. in Nijmegen on Friday afternoon. The Moroccan Dutchman escaped two weeks ago from prison in Turnhout, Belgium. Three men were arrested fairly soon after their escape attempt because they jumped from a 6 meter high wall, causing bruises. The other two, including Abderrahim B., had ropes with which they dropped. They were probably picked up by a flight car.
Drugs Abderrahim B. was hiding in Nijmegen, where he hid himself on the loft of a house during Christmas and New Year. There he was arrested this morning by the Fugitive Active Search Team of the police. The man has been sentenced in Belgium to 4.5 years in prison for theft and drug offenses and has to sit for more than 4 years. FastNL tracked down the man through information obtained from their Belgian colleagues.
Blind spot The escape in Turnhout led to frowns because he was relatively simple. The men managed to climb unseen on a wall in the blind spot of a security camera. Then they cut a 10,000-volt power cord (they had put socks on their hands to protect against electric shock) and lowered themselves down a rope on the other side of the wall.
Helicopter One of the co-escapees, the Moroccan Oualid S. is still on the run. He served a sentence for a shooting and threatened to be extradited to Morocco, which was probably the reason for his escape. His brother, Ashraf S., escaped spectacularly from the prison of Bruges in 2009. He ran after a hijacked helicopter had landed in the courtyard.
Chinese people are behind assassination Moon Tong Choi in Rotterdam in October 2018, according to the Public Prosecution Service. The police think that the two Chinese Jin X. (31) and Sun L. (29) had come specifically from China to have the murder carried out. Moon Tong Choi (64) was in his car when he was shot in in Rotterdam-Kralingen. Choi was known by the police in connection with the trade in synthetic drugs and raw materials for the production of drugs.
The 46-year-old man without permanent residence or residence who was shot dead in Rotterdam South on March 20, 2019, is Dominican Daniel Arias. A 24-year-old from Rotterdam is detained for the manslaughter of Arias. According to sources, the victim was a man with a Spanish passport born in the Dominican Republic. That now appears to be Arias. Witnesses spoke of a "cold-blooded settlement."
OSS - The police in East Brabant arrested suspects again on Tuesday in the investigation into the 'crime plan' around Martien R. from Oss. It concerns three men aged 24, 53 and 75 from Oss and Berghem.
The men are suspected of membership of a criminal organization and possession of firearms. The 24-year-old man from Oss is suspected of money laundering. His 53-year-old fellow citizen was involved in the import of 315 kilos of cocaine, according to the justice department.
Brabant criminals form impenetrable bastions for the police
Alfa investigation into the infamous R. family is becoming increasingly extensive. Since the beginning of November, fifteen suspects have been arrested, seven of whom are members of the R. family. The leaders are the father and son R. They are suspected of running a criminal organization, large-scale drug trafficking and possession of weapons. The three that were arrested on Tuesday do not belong to the R. family, but are confidants according to the Public Prosecution Service.
Police and Public Prosecution Service is still looking for a suspect who was not found on 21 November in Lith and Sumar, where he might stay that day. This is also a member of the R. family.
At the prison in Zutphen, Gelderland, henchmen tried to free Omar Lkhorf, who is serving a life sentence, on Sunday afternoon . That failed. Four men have been arrested who may be involved in the escape attempt. The police arrested four men on Sunday afternoon after a wild chase on the N813 near Wehl in Gelderland. A warning shot was released. It is unclear how the men wanted to free Lkhorf. "We are currently investigating this and we cannot make any announcements," said the police spokesperson. On the grounds of the prison in Zutphen, a van was on fire around 10.50 on Sunday morning. After the outbreak of the fire, heavily armed agents with bullet-proof vests immediately walked around. The ministry spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice and Security could not tell how the burning van near the prison in Zutphen was part of the escape attempt. Lkhorf is linked to the group around Benaouf A., who in vain tried to escape by helicopter from the prison in Roermond in 2017. The Amsterdam criminal was rushed early last year from the prison in Krimpen aan den IJssel to that in Zutphen because there were plans to kill him within the prison walls. According to current legislation, prisoners trying to escape are not punishable. The government believes that this cannot be explained and is working on a legislative amendment that will make it possible to punish these detainees.
Amsterdam criminal Khalid J. arrested in Dubai The Amsterdam criminal Khalid J. (35) has been arrested in Dubai according to reliable sources. He has been linked to underworld murders for years. Justice accuses him of being a member of a criminal organization led by Rico the Chilean. Khalid J., from Amsterdam-Zuid, is being prosecuted in a large process in which ten mostly notorious Amsterdam criminals will stand trial for involvement in the murder command. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) says it does not want to say anything about the arrest, but does not deny it. The group known as the Gwenette Martha heirs was more or less continued under the leadership of Rico. J. was with a group of other criminals in Panama City in December 2014 when Khalid Jaafar was shot dead outside a nightclub. On Sunday afternoon the OM tweeted that in the morning "a 35-year-old man who was deported by the United Arab Emirates was arrested at Schiphol".
To free Omar they rammed the door of the prison with the van this failed. Omar was moved with helicopter to high security prison in Vught. The four henchmen are French nationals from the Paris area.
'Top criminal Dino Soerel makes attempt to break out of prison' Top criminal Dino Soerel, who is serving a life sentence, has made an outbreak attempt tonight. Together with another prisoner, he tried to escape from the Heerhugowaard prison. De Telegraaf reports that.
The Ministry of Justice and Security confirms that there were "suspicions of an outbreak attempt," but refrains from commenting further. What the outbreak attempt looked like and how it came to an end is unclear. According to De Telegraaf , Soerel has since been transferred to the Extra Secure Institution in Vught.
The 47-year-old Said Razzouki was apprehended by Colombian police in Medellin, the Dutch police said on Friday. The arrest was made as part of a collaboration between the national unit of the Netherlands police, and two American law enforcement offices, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Razzouki was arrested with two men of the notorious clan del golfo, he was injured trying to escape through a window. A few years ago they didn't even have him and Taghi on the radar so expect some new sponsors to rise (and fall) pretty quickly.
Ridouan Taghi, according to the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI), paid money before his arrest to free him with heavy weapons from the Extra Secured Establishment (EBI) in Vught. The police have therefore been instructed to keep an eye on the penitentiary institution.
And the aviation police have been asked to pay extra attention to the surroundings of the PI Vught during the flights. Infrared recordings can be made from the air.
The management of the PI and the mayor of Vught have been informed about this. Marcel de Rouw, a local police officer in Vught, neither confirms nor denies the fact that the police were instructed to include the PI Vught extra in surveillance. "It's all very sensitive," he says. ,, From the National Unit there are colleagues in the PI present for monitoring and security, as long as Taghi has been in Vught . There is certainly extra attention for safety and we work closely with the other services. Furthermore, I cannot say anything about it. "
Footage of the arrest of Razzouki. He presented himself as a twenty-year-older person in Colombia and wore a beard. He was finally recognized on images of drones when he made one of his few trips. According to the Colombian general, Razzouki tried to keep the police at bay for months with Escobar tactics. For example, the Dutch criminal did not have a telephone at home and he did everything through personal contact. He was protected by members of the Colombian drug cartel Clan del Golfo.
In Spain, Dennis "Demis" M. (44) died in custody. He would have died of a cardiac arrest. M. was sentenced by the court in Spain to eleven years in prison for having operated several weed plantations in the Alicante area. He was also suspected of being involved in some liquidations in 2014 in Amsterdam. Demis M. was a "cousin" of drug boss Gwenette Martha, who was shot dead in 2014, and was seen by the police as a member of a group of criminals from South Amsterdam around Martha. Martha broke up with his former partner Houssine A., this led to the murders in 2014 of which M. was also suspected. M. remained loyal to Martha his brother Dani M. has gone to the rival gang.
The police found a large drug lab in Hapert in Noord-Brabant on Wednesday. Large quantities of MDMA (the active substance in xtc) were produced in the lab, accounting for three to three and a half million xtc pills. Two men aged 42 and 48 from Eindhoven were arrested. The raid on the laboratory was part of a long-standing investigation, the professional lab had a total of four sections: the lab with the boilers, a storage place with chemicals, a room full of freezers to crystallize the substances from the boilers and a mixing room.
Taghi is now linked to 9 other liquidations and attempted liquidations, this became known in the process against 16 members of outlaw motorclub Caloh Wagoh. Attacks were aimed at 14 people, 3 of whom actually died. From the thousands of pgp messages some info was leaked Taghi wanted topcriminals Dino Soerel, Danny K and Sjaak Burger dead. Had something to do with the murder of Jair Wessels.
Taghi is not yet a suspect in this trial, but will be in the Marengo trial later this year which involves 9 murders and attempts. So we are now talking about over a dozen murders and many more attempts, but there were more murders also a dozen abroad linked to the Taghi group.
Getting Danny K whacked... Doubt that would've been a good move.
There was already speculation they were behind the high profile hit on Stanley Hillis, Noffel was also convicted of the failed hit on his protege Pjotr R. So the old dutch penoze has been targeted before. Also the hit on the ex fighter Nijman and the threats against ex fighter Vrij.
Getting Danny K whacked... Doubt that would've been a good move.
There was already speculation they were behind the high profile hit on Stanley Hillis, Noffel was also convicted of the failed hit on his protege Pjotr R. So the old dutch penoze has been targeted before. Also the hit on the ex fighter Nijman and the threats against ex fighter Vrij.
Still, it's a wasp's nest. The Moroccans have contacted the Antilleans, but also the Surinamese in gangs like Caloh Wagoh. And connected to Caloh Wagoh were also some old Dutch penoze guys like Greg. Danny K in turn was a protege of Greg. Danny and Dick were also brought into connection with the Hells Angels. So who's targeting who and why? The Amsterdam-Utrecht underworld is a mess these days.
Motorcycle gang Caloh Wagoh had three "murder cells". They are all fucked, because the founder Keylow, also founder of the Dutch Crips, kept copies of millions of pgp messages on his computer lol.
Police discovered possible murder plan on crime reporter
A 31-year-old Amsterdam man who was supposed to have committed an attack on crime journalist John van den Heuvel of De Telegraaf, will be in court on Tuesday. After a raid on his home in Amsterdam in December, the suspect was arrested. During a house search a rocket launcher was found that he might want to use in his liquidation plan.
The police action took place after a detailed tip had been received by the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI) at the beginning of December that suspect YA was possibly preparing an attack on Van den Heuvel on behalf of third parties. The assassination attempt had to take place before the New Year.
"Of course I was quite shocked when I was told what information had arrived at the police intelligence service. If a rocket launcher is also found during the investigation of that tip, you will be shocked. I am very pleased that the tip has been seriously investigated and has led to an arrest, "said the crime journalist, who has been heavily protected both privately and while working since the end of 2017.
In investigations into Ridouan Taghi and motorcycle club Caloh Wagoh, the police have repeatedly encountered information about planned assassinations of Van den Heuvel, who does not comment further.
Underground banker arrested for money laundering millions of euros March 4, 2020
In a police and FIOD investigation, a 55-year-old man from Abcoude was arrested on Tuesday and is suspected of having laundered many millions as an underground banker for criminals. There has been confiscation of administration, three cars and jewelry that were in a safe. Money couriers The criminal investigation started after information about the collection and transport of large amounts of cash by the suspect, the FIOD reports Wednesday. The man would use different money couriers and the money would come from criminal activities. One of the money couriers (a 44-year-old from Amsterdam) was arrested on 26 February . His car was specially prepared to hide money.
MARBELLA - The Spanish police have arrested members of a Dutch murder command in the southern resort of Marbella. The men are suspected of multiple liquidations and are said to be one of the most active 'hitmen' in Europe, according to the authorities.
Police have released footage of the arrests. A total of six people were arrested during the operation, four in Spain and two in the Netherlands. The gang is said to have committed at least ten murders.
According to the authorities, the arrested would be hired by various criminal groups to 'settle outstanding accounts'. The highly professional organization used mobile phones to send encrypted messages.
Four of the suspects were arrested when they traveled from the Netherlands to Spain to do a new 'job'. They carried a semi-automatic pistol with silencer and ammunition, Spanish media report, adding that the Amsterdam police force was also involved in the investigation.
The immediate cause for the joint operation 'Bentley' of the Spanish and Dutch authorities was the liquidation of Abdelhadi Yaqout, known locally as 'Marco', in the night of 20 to 21 January 2019 in Marbella.
The Spaniard of Moroccan origin led a jet set existence on the Spanish south coast. He had several successful catering businesses, but was also deeply involved in international drug trafficking.
@Hollander@TheKillingJoke can you give a overview about situation in amsterdam underworld today ? So Dino Soerel, Holeeder with life sentence are out ? Greg Remmers are in prison ? Moroco mafia most famous guys behind bars ? Caloh Wagoh are busted ? Sjaak Burger are active ? How strong is the 81 chapter today? How strong is Danny K.?
Due to the lack of structure in the underworld, Amsterdam crime is said to be 'worse' than the mafia. Top criminals in Amsterdam have 'hundreds of millions of euros'. We still call them Amsterdam criminals, because they all come from here. But many of them no longer live in Amsterdam. And the big money is not here either. That is in Dubai, Panama, Spain, Morocco, Brazil.There is also a risk that criminals will invest heavily in Amsterdam's new construction projects.
Mink K. and several others had ties to the IRA and other Irish-British. No new names but there are various families active in which crime passes from generation to generation, so you see more and more second generation.
"Who talks, who goes": how Ridouan Taghi's youth gang grew into a murder squad Youth gang Bad Boys became the hub of the country's most murderous crime organization, led by Ridouan Taghi. The core of that gang proves how crime doesn't pay, in the end. Almost everyone is trapped or killed - by old friends.
Paul Vugts March 21, 2020 , 3:00 PM
It starts with hanging out and street trading in hashish, but hustling ends in large-scale hash trade, burglaries, arms trade and the bizarre phenomenon of deadly street racing.
They are roughly fifty boys and young men who, in varying composition, manifest themselves in the Utrecht region from the end of the eighties as the infamous youth gang Bad Boys. They hang out at the Cityplaza shopping center in Nieuwegein and fan out from there to Utrecht, IJsselstein, Maarssen and other municipalities in the area.
In the early nineties an unobtrusive boy joins the group: Ridouan Taghi from Vianen, then about fourteen years old.
He is a clever pre-university student at a school in Nieuwegein, which he will nevertheless leave without a diploma. He is small and petite and the, literally and figuratively, the bigger boys regularly beat him up or rob him of his starting hashish business.
The Bad Boys, meanwhile, are becoming an increasingly serious pest. With increasingly serious crimes, but also with those street races that are a life-threatening pastime among more problem youths.
Members of the Bad Boys are unlikely to tear recklessly over the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht ('the longest shopping street in the Netherlands'), over the Ring Utrecht and over a business park in Maarssen. They try to overtake trains. Tradition has it that there are eight deaths in those races - although that figure has never been formally established.
Ridouan Taghi's star is already starting to rise, but the time when his name in Utrecht and surroundings is only whispered or shortened to 'T' is yet to come. At first he is just 'Kleine', 'Nose' or 'Freggel'.
Joint past The hard core of the Bad Boys consists of about twelve in the nineties. It is a multicultural group. The 'Surinamese': Mao R. (1975) and his younger brother Mario (1979) from Utrecht; Feno D. (1985) and Gerel Palm (1983) from Amsterdam; Jaouad (Joey) W. (1979) from Tiel; Gilbert Roemer (1979) and childhood friend and neighbor Timon 'Chico' Badloe (1975) from Nieuwegein.
The Antillean Sherwin S. (1975) from Amsterdam, whose younger brother Shurandy will shoot the innocent brother of crown witness Nabil B. in early 2018, is part of the group, as are the native Utrechters Levi B. (1987) and Gertjan de J. (1978) and the Moroccan Samir Erraghib (1979) from IJsselstein. And then there is the Ridouan Taghi (1977) from Vianen, born in Beni Selman, Morocco.
The Bad Boys continue to grow. The common past on the street has forged strong bonds of trust, crucial in the uncertain and suspiciously underworld. Taghi develops into an adept drug lord. He is allowed to exploit some of the hash lines that were once set up by his grandfather and is expanding them energetically. With fast speed boats, the faithful transfer the hashish from Morocco to the Spanish south coast. From there smooth lines run further into Europe.
The switch to cocaine follows steadily. Taghi's organization becomes extremely rich from that trade so quickly that it is too late when first competitors and years later the investigation services get to know which multi-headed monster has emerged.
The organization uses a structure of separate groups and groups for different tasks, so that street soldiers can link as little as possible. The betrayal, 'snitching' at rivals or investigation, is the capital punishment: who talks, who goes.
In the late 1990s, Taghi forges his organization together with that of the Utrecht Moroccan Saïd Razzouki (1972) and his family and relatives. For example, Taghi has a right hand in Saïd Razzouki and a left hand in Bad Boy Mao R.
Rotterdam research It is the deadly key witness Ebrahim B. (1969) from Utrecht who is the first criminal to explain to the police on Saturday June 27, 2015 how badly those Bad Boys of yesteryear hunt rivals. The hash trader, ex-criminal in his own words, was followed months before by 'three Surinamese' who apparently traced him in Belgium, where he had sought shelter. They want to liquidate him.
Foreman of the trio is 'a negro' who according to B. has already carried out various liquidations for Taghi, including the (initially failed) murder of his ex-brother-in-law. By that 'negro' he clearly means Bad Boy Joey 'Book' W .. Because Ebrahim B. has withdrawn even further and is nowhere to be found, his attackers go after his friends - to come to him or kill them through them. to hit B..
The sudden, ultimately detailed statements by B. come at the moment that a large investigation into thieves of (flight) cars in Rotterdam led the police to Utrecht and the surrounding area. There, a new investigation, codenamed 26Koper, has identified a large group of suspects who seem to form a very professionally operating murder command.
Spotters (observers) meticulously map the corridors of targets. In an administration it later appears that there is hardly any cover for 19 million euros in income and expenditure noted for spotters, 'hitters' (hired killers) and (stolen) cars for observations or to flee.
In July 2015, the police find an awe-inspiring pile of war equipment in two boxes belonging to lessor De Storageman in Nieuwegein, including 92 firearms (38 of which are automatic), 9 shrapnel grenades and 13 bullet-proof vests. Elsewhere there are more weapons. Of five clearly identified targets that have been meticulously observed, two are liquidated after the apparent murder squad is rolled up.
Several murder commands According to the prosecutors, the ten suspects in the large criminal case "Copper are driven by power, hatred, financial gain and the urge to climb the criminal ladder" and are prepared to kill victims they do not even know. There are three former Bad Boys in the suspects: prime suspect Joey W., Levi B. and Mario R.
Ridouan Taghi and Saïd Razzouki were not included in this process, but gradually it has become clear to the judiciary that they and Mao R. are hanging over several murderous organizations, of which the group from 26Koper was only one.
Investigation services are not least aware of this due to the millions of encrypted messages between criminals found on computer servers seized in Canada and Costa Rica. The huge mountain of text messages made legible is a bombshell of evidence because (also) the groups around Taghi 'speak' in chillingly cold and crystal clear terms in their email traffic about liquidations, because they think they are unobserved.
After years, the three leaders are still taken one by one: Mao R. (and Mario R.) in Suriname in May 2019; Ridouan Taghi in December 2019 in Dubai and Said Razzouki in February 2020 in Colombia.
Murdered childhood friends In two unprecedentedly large, new and barely manageable criminal trials already in the start-up phase, she and more than thirty co-suspects will be tried for involvement in a lot of liquidations, failed attempts and never-executed murder plans - plus the membership of a murder gang.
Taghi, Razzouki and Mao and Mario R. are being tried in the Marengo case; Bad Boy Feno D. is a major suspect in Eris's related trial.
The charges in Marengo also feature a Bad Boy as a victim: Samir Erraghib, who was shot dead in 2017 in IJsselstein. He is only one of the three murdered Bad Boys. Childhood friends and drug traffickers Adjai Badloe and Gilbert Roemer were also wound up with brutal violence, in their old neighborhood in Nieuwegein.
Gerel Palm is on the National Investigation List because he allegedly shot two Rotterdammers on December 10, 2016 in a meadow in Noordeloos in South Holland. He was arrested in Suriname in March 2017, but was able to 'escape' from prison and has been a fugitive ever since.
The only one from the hard core of the Bad Boys who really manages to stay out of the hands of the police for a long time is Sherwin S. This does not apply to his brother Shurandy, who murdered the innocent brother of crown witness Nabil B. against Taghi's group.
Hard core awaits jail, imprisoned or murdered
Ridouan Taghi (1977)
Must fear lifelong as the main suspect in the multiple liquidation case Marengo.
Mao R. (1975)
Assigned a leading role as Taghi's adjutant in Marengo and fearing for life.
Mario 'Piet' R. (1979)
To be continued in Marengo as an extension of brother Mao (and Taghi) and for the 2015 liquidation of spy shop employee Ronald Bakker in Huizen, plus for the plan to shoot a bazooka at the spy shop in Nieuwegein where Bakker worked.
Jaouad 'Joey' / 'Book') W. (1979)
As one of the prime suspects in trial 26, got 13 years in prison for preparing for liquidations and possessing a huge arsenal of weapons.
Levi B. (1987)
In process 26, he also received a 13-year prison term for preparing liquidations and possessing a huge arsenal of weapons.
Feno D. (1985)
In the liquidation process Eris is accused of being involved in the liquidation in 2017 of criminal Jaïr Wessels in Breukelen, the order to liquidate the Amsterdam criminal Inchomar Balentien (when it failed), three attempts to liquidate and an attempt or attempt to bombard a house.
Gertjan de J. (1978)
Is now free, but always appears in violent cases and drug investigations.
Gerel Palm (1983)
Is on the National Investigation List for the double attempt to liquidate two Rotterdammers on 10 December 2016 in Noordeloos.
Sherwin S. (1975)
Lost himself, brother Shurandy 'Andy' S. was sentenced to 28 years for the murder of Reduan B., brother of Nabil B.
Gilbert 'Rasta Gilly' Roemer (1979)
Was liquidated on 24 June 2013 in Nieuwegein.
Samir Erraghib (1979)
Was wound up in IJsselstein on April 17, 2016.
Adjai 'Timon' / 'Chico' Badloe (1975)
Was wound up on November 28, 2017 in the same street in Nieuwegein where his friend Gilbert Roemer was murdered in 2013.
Prevention is a long-term process The 39 municipalities, the police and the judiciary in the central Netherlands want to do everything they can to prevent 'young growth' from being lured into the brutal drug world - such as the Bad Boys.
Remco Mulder coordinates the Street Value (s) program, in which the police, the judiciary, municipalities, aid workers and many authorities work together to reverse the 'undermining' of neighborhoods by drug traffickers.
Complicated case
"Drug use continues to increase and supply continues to grow," says Mulder. “Young people think they can make money easily and quickly and do not see that they end up irrevocably in a world of excessive violence; of shootings, liquidations and murders of the wrongdoers through blunders. "
It is not only underprivileged boys in problem areas that end up in the trade, Mulder notes. “It is quite complicated to get the right guys in your sights. You used to have the stepping stone theory: step by step they made their wrong career. Now you also see boys who do have perspectives and choose that world. â€
Quick Repsonse
To see the right individuals and groups in a timely manner and to 'penetrate into the capillaries of neighborhoods', good neighborhood agents, youth workers and youth workers are needed. And active local residents, such as mother networks that sound the alarm in time when it turns out that a son keeps a Kalashnikov under his bed.
According to Mulder, it starts with speaking up in the neighborhood because 'people often want to, but just don't know how'.
The Street Value (s) program has two pillars: through repression, the parties try to 'dethrone' the neighborhood princes and viceroys' in the drug trade and show that the government intervenes if necessary - including through a Quick Response Team of the Law enforcement.
For prevention, the joint authorities want to cooperate 'smarter' and, for example, have the party with the best cards break through the culture of silence or have scientists carry out small-scale experiments to see how barriers can be built that keep young people out of the coke trade.
No quick fixes
Positive role models that enjoy respect are crucial. This can be the kickboxing trainer, the youth worker or the mother or the hairdresser; pivotal figures who explain that dealing is not normal. Think also of a boy who got out of the environment.
It is a long-term affair, but Street Value (s) has been allocated for years, and part of the roughly 8 million euros that the police, the judiciary and the 39 municipalities in the central Netherlands have received from the fund against 'undermining'. . "There are no quick fixes," says Mulder. "Boys should feel that there is no romance in drug trafficking, but rather a very dark shadow side."
In Mexico, the British-Belgian criminal “Billy†Meech was liquidated on Thursday March 19. He was shot by one of two men on a motorcycle, according to Mexican media. He just wanted to go for a bike ride in Desierto de los Leones Natural Park, southwest of Mexico City. Billy was a good friend of the Dutch criminal Mink Kok.
For the first time in twenty years, police deployed a criminal civilian infiltrator. At the beginning of March, eight men were arrested as a result, who are suspected of international hard drug trafficking.
The group operated from Friesland and got help from motorcycle clubs Hells Angels and Red Devils. The drug lines ran to Australia, England, Finland and Ireland. The infiltrator himself was part of the drug network.
The prosecutor says the infiltrator was the only way to gain insight into the network. "It was previously agreed that he could trade drugs and launder money under the direction of the police."
In Mexico, the British-Belgian criminal “Billy†Meech was liquidated on Thursday March 19. He was shot by one of two men on a motorcycle, according to Mexican media. He just wanted to go for a bike ride in Desierto de los Leones Natural Park, southwest of Mexico City. Billy was a good friend of the Dutch criminal Mink Kok.
TKJ, familiar with Billy? He's from Antwerp, was arrested in the past for coke smuggling with Mink K in Lebanon. He has strong links to the colombians through his colombian wife. He also was in contact with drug lord Samir Scarface until his murder in Marbella one of the biggest traffickers in Europe.
Yeah I definitely heard of Billy before. As far as I know he didn't really operate in Antwerp; mostly associated with Amsterdam-based criminals.
Yes there were several Belgians involved around Mink two were murdered Danny Leclère in the 90s and Jan van Zantvoort few years ago in Spain. It's amazing how many people around Mink have been shot to dead during his long career probably around 30.
There is information that settlements in the criminal circuit are being postponed due to the corona crisis. This is because streets are now emptier and, for example, a police helicopter can detect a getaway car more easily.
"The chance of being caught is now greater," says chairman of the Dutch Police Association Jan Struijs in De Telegraaf .
According to Struijs, organized crime is currently responding very quickly to the crisis with corona-related cybercrime, fraud and the production of counterfeit products.
“Criminals are extremely creative. Look at drug sales. Due to the closed catering and canceled events, part of the sales market has disappeared. What you are seeing now is an increase in drugs by mail,†said the chairman of the Dutch Police Association.
Brake on the detection There is now a brake on the investigation, says Struijs: only highly necessary investigations continue. Corona crime is, however, a priority.
Investigations into organized crime with a foreign component, for example, are delayed or postponed. Because of the protective measures, it is now much more difficult to intercept a drug transport, arrest a criminal involving several countries or hear witnesses abroad.
“I hear from the 'intelligence' department that with about eighty percent of the information that is now received by the police, nothing can be done,†says Struijs.
Risk of robberies increases The chairman of the Dutch Police Association finds it difficult to say anything about the long-term effects. "The criminal investigation department must now switch rapidly to tackling new forms of crime, in order to switch back after the corona crisis."
In addition, he is concerned that there is now less cash in circulation. “Criminals like cash and become desperate. There is a good chance of more robberies and robberies at home. More chance of using more violence. â€
Hollander, are you familiar with the family C. from Geleen? They're Moluccan if I recall correctly. Have been brought into connection with large scale drug transports in Limburg (presumably connected to Satudarah) and at one time were suspected of being behind an underworld hit in Belgian Limburg.
Hollander, are you familiar with the family C. from Geleen? They're Moluccan if I recall correctly. Have been brought into connection with large scale drug transports in Limburg (presumably connected to Satudarah) and at one time were suspected of being behind an underworld hit in Belgian Limburg.
Not this particular family, but there have been some heavy guys from the Moluccan community active in geleen and southern limburg many served long sentences I remember a guy who in the past was a leader of the so-called 'bende van Leerdam'.
The criminal investigation department made reports from a PGP telephone used by Naoufal “Noffel†F. legible. According to the prosecutor in the case against Richard "Rico" R. (46), those reports show the close criminal cooperation between Rico the Chilean, Naoufal F. and Ridouan Taghi.
On Wednesday there was a pro forma hearing in the case against Rico, who is suspected of leading a criminal organization that trafficked cocaine but also collaborated with Taghi and the Italian Raffaele Imperiale. According to the judiciary, that network also committed murders, led by Rico and Taghi. Naoufal F. has been sentenced to life imprisonment for provoking murder.
However, Rico is not on trial for murders. He cannot yet be prosecuted for this because he was extradited by Chile on the basis of a suspicion of drug trafficking. Justice has said for more than half a year that an additional request for legal assistance with information about murder suspicions will be sent to Chile. At Wednesday's session, it turned out that it still hasn't happened.
The court still intends to hear the substance of the case against "Rico the Chilean" in June.
Illegal poker tournament stopped in Zaandam, 53 people fined The Zaanstad police ended an illegal poker tournament in the night from Friday to Saturday. 53 people were present in a commercial building on the Penningweg. Because of the ban on gathering that is in force because of the corona measures, all those present have been fined. That fine is 395 euros per person. The police say it is striking that those present came from all over the Netherlands. "A few managed to escape from the uproar, but the majority of the group was kept in, using appropriate force, after which peace returned." The Zaan police have been assisted in this incident by colleagues from the Amsterdam police, the National Unit and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.
During an action by a drug gang in the port of Antwerp, fourteen Dutch men were arrested. That reports the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. According to the newspaper, they are all in their twenties and have to go to trial on Tuesday morning.
It reports that the men are errand boys of a drug gang who have tried with a new method to safely retrieve a load of cocaine from a container in the port of Antwerp. They have cloned a refrigerated container full of squid, with almost 5 tons of cocaine in 1 kg packs in between. They drove to the customs control with that identical container. However, it failed to mislead customs and police, the newspaper said.
According to the newspaper, 12 suspects were arrested on the spot. Two fellow suspects were also stuck. Kalashnikovs and other weapons were found in a warehouse as well as in a car trunk.
Police chief: 'drug trafficking just keeps going' April 28, 2020
The corona crisis does not affect the activity of drug smugglers, says Fred Westerbeke, the recently appointed chief of the Rotterdam police in Algemeen Dagblad. In the port of Rotterdam, the police even notice more drug smuggling activity than usual. Over forty suspected henchmen have been arrested in the last six weeks, people who break open certain containers in port areas to transport unseen drug packages.
Fred Westerbeke sees this as an indication that international drug trafficking is simply continuing.
A batch of cocaine was also intercepted to England among medical supplies.
Furthermore, the police receive far more reports of drug deals or suspicious circumstances than usual, because they are more noticeable because of the rest on the street. The police see the movement of street trade from locations where it is normally busier to supermarket parking lots and hardware stores, places where quite a few people still gather.
Known criminal Omar Essalih from De Pijp was shot dead in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Amsterdam-East. Essalih (29) was called 'Pennies' because he would do just about anything for money.
I’ve always been interested in him but never really find anything about him. Who was behind his killing? And who was he linked to
Thanks
Martha, born in Curaçao, grew up in Amsterdam South . Martha had talent for football and made it to Ajax 's youth academy, and kickboxing. At the age of eighteen, he witnessed his brother Giovanni being shot dead after a brawl. Giovanni's killer was shot and killed in a coffee shop on October 14, 2003, under unexplained circumstances, but Martha was the main suspect.
Martha had already explored the wrong way with street robberies before he was eighteen, but continued a criminal career in which robberies and cocaine trafficking played a major role. In the 90s the group around Martha was due to the aftermath of the IRT corruption affair somewhat left alone and Martha's group became the main drug suppliers in Amsterdam. Martha was convicted of laundering money in 2007. Less than a month later, Martha escaped from prison.
Meanwhile, his gang was not doing well either. There were quite a few deaths among his accomplices, and Martha's group got involved in a bloody feud with a competing crime group. Martha's right hand died in 2012. His murder on October 18, 2012 is related to a missing batch of two hundred kilos of cocaine. The murder sparked yet another series of liquidations, starting with a heavy shooting on December 29, 2012 in the Staatsliedenbuurt. In addition, two young Moroccans were killed in a Landrover and the police were also shot.
Martha died on May 22, 2014 as a result of an attack. More than eighty bullet holes were found in his body. Many of his group later started to work with Rico the Chilean and Ridouan Taghi.
Ultimately, the gangland war can be traced back to miscommunication and jealousy between two close friends and associates who grew up together: Martha and 'Hoes'.
Thanks a lot, Holland is such an interesting place for organised crime, I really enjoy your updates
Thanks, the Penoze goes back to the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, although the term "organized crime" was not used. There were organized gangs, which often formed a large network. The best example of this is the Great Dutch Gang. It was active in the seventies of the eighteenth century and consisted of a network of the Brabantse, the Meerssener, the Hollandse and the Noord-Brabantse Bende. ' In the first half of the eighteenth century, there were mainly many gangs in Brabant, but even after 1750 the gangs were rampant. Gangs like the Muscovites, the Blackmakers, and several others, terrorized villages and towns.
Poverty and social exclusion were an important reason for joining a gang in the eighteenth century. For example, the skinners, also known as disposers or cold slaughterers, were strongly represented. These were craftsmen who had the task of killing sick animals, skinning dead cattle and horses, and clearing away cadavers. They also acted as executioners' assistants and were tasked with transporting, hanging, or burying corpses of convicts under the gallows. The skinning profession was unclean and passed on from father to son. A skinner was not allowed to marry someone from another profession. He lived (literally) on the edge of the community.
A man was shot dead in Rotterdam, two guys in black clothing in an industrial area a burned-out car was found.
Police in Gelderland found a major crystal meth lab they seized drugs worth around €10 million. Inside three cooks were arrested from the USA, Mexico and Colombia.
Rotterdam criminal reports liquidation attempt at Schiphol. On Wednesday evening, around 19.45 a motorist called the emergency number and reported that he was under fire. There has been a very high-speed chase around Schiphol, through several villages in the Haarlemmermeer. A source surrounding the investigation said that the man who allegedly had been chased was the Rotterdam criminal Marco E. (27). He is said to have left for Rotterdam from Amsterdam and noticed on the A4 highway that he was being followed. After he ran off full throttle and left the highway, a chase ended near Badhoevedorp. At Oude Meer, according to E., shots were taken with automatic rifles. The chasing car was a BMW that at one point missed a corner that allowed E. to escape and report to the police. In Amsterdam, E. would have been suspicious of people hanging around him on the street. There would also have been a delivery van involved. Marco E. is the son of the notorious Schiedam crime boss Henk E., who has been involved in drug trafficking for many years. Marco and his father appear in several large investigative files of the criminal investigation department, including the Doussie file for cocaine imports, Henk E. was sentenced by the court to 14 years in that case. Marco E. was imprisoned for six years.
Nabil B., the crown witness in the Marengo trial against Ridouan Taghi, among 18 others, refuses to answer questions from lawyers and the Public Prosecution Service, according to the NRC . He will explain the reason for this at the pro forma session next Monday. B. made his point of view known during a hearing on Friday with the examining magistrate.
Nabil B. helped prepare several murders himself, but decided to go to justice in the spring of 2017. His statements, in addition to deciphered PGP chats, are crucial evidence in the process of at least five liquidations.
The examining magistrate who leads the interrogations of the crown witness in the Marengo case has already encountered problems several times about issues that B. does not want to explain, but that the examining magistrate must do. At the moment, B. has no lawyer.
According to the NRC, lawyers for the suspects asked Friday to have Nabil B. held hostage in order to force him to answer. The examining magistrate rejected that request.
The National Police is very concerned about the rise of meth. Dutch ecstasy barons are working now closely with Mexican cartels in the production of meth for the European market. The mexicans choose Netherlands because of the mild sentences, infrastructure, chemicals and good production facilities.
Drug war triggers series of shootings and attack in Rotterdam A batch of 4,200 kilos of cocaine, which was intercepted by the Belgian police in the port of Antwerp more than three weeks ago, is the cause of the firearms violence in Rotterdam in recent days. That says several sources within and outside the criminal environment. The police are not yet making any statements about the possible background of the shelling of five homes and retail properties.
After the seizure of the large shipment of coke , which had been disposed of in a container of fish from South America, fourteen suspects were arrested in Belgium, including several young men of Surinamese and Antillean origin. The cargo of drugs is said to have been imported by an Amsterdam gang. Investors have been hit hard by the 'disappeared' drugs, tensions between criminals in the capital would increase further.
The National Police is very concerned about the rise of meth. Dutch ecstasy barons are working now closely with Mexican cartels in the production of meth for the European market. The mexicans choose Netherlands because of the mild sentences, infrastructure, chemicals and good production facilities.
This article, says about the same, provides a video of one of these labs in Mexico.
The National Police is very concerned about the rise of meth. Dutch ecstasy barons are working now closely with Mexican cartels in the production of meth for the European market. The mexicans choose Netherlands because of the mild sentences, infrastructure, chemicals and good production facilities.
This article, says about the same, provides a video of one of these labs in Mexico.
The National Police is very concerned about the rise of meth. Dutch ecstasy barons are working now closely with Mexican cartels in the production of meth for the European market. The mexicans choose Netherlands because of the mild sentences, infrastructure, chemicals and good production facilities.
This article, says about the same, provides a video of one of these labs in Mexico.
I didn't expect crystal meth would be come big in Europe, but dutch police have already busted 26 major labs in Holland.
Wild! I’m pretty sure Culiacan was one of the first places it was getting produced in Mexico.
They can produce Cocaine, Heroin and Meth, which is a huge advantage over the Eastern Hemisphere, because I don’t believe they can cultivate Cocaine do to climate.
There is also a high demand for Dutch ecstasy and speed in Latin American party scenes, so instead of cash they pay with that. Roberto Pannunzi was known to do the same, trading 1 kilogram of heroin for 25 kilograms of cocaine.
Willem Holleeder wants more research into old underworld conflicts The first introductory session at which Willem Holleeder appeared again today set the tone for the appeal against his life sentence for murder assignments. He wants much more research into ancient underworld conflicts. It is not necessary for the judicial authorities to do this.
Paul Vugts 25-05-20, 18:43 Last update: 19:16 Some things do not change. Willem Holleeder (61), in his favorite black outfit, took a seat in the suspect's bank and asked plenty of further investigation during the prosecution leading up to his appeal to show that witnesses lied about his murder assignments - his sisters and the murdered rogue real estate magnate Willem Endstra up front.
Not he, but others have ordered five liquidations and an assassination attempt from 2002 to 2006, killing six. That may very well have been criminal rival John Mieremet, or underworld leader Stanley Hillis or another criminal heavyweight.
Last chance Holleeder and his lawyers Sander Janssen and Desiree de Jonge do not understand how the court was able to put aside all their elaborately described alternative scenarios. They go full for their last chance.
They want the court to hear no fewer than 43 witnesses at the hearings. Dozens of criminals, especially, but also (ex-) prosecutors, investigators and - a strange duck - the dentist of the Extra Secure Facility in Vught where Holleeder is locked up. The latter could confirm that Holleeder indeed needed a new crown, and that his story about a new crown was not a disguised threat, as sister Astrid understood.
Sisters Astrid and Sonja and ex Sandra den Hartog must of course also saw through the court, says Holleeder. Personally, so that the court can also register their way of speaking and body language.
Furthermore, the defense wants to see even more old files brought in, about the many conflicts that have dominated the Amsterdam underworld since the 1990s. The murdered criminals on Holster's charge may very well have been murdered on behalf of others, he and his lawyers will repeat over and over.
The court was already overwhelmed with documents and could dream the mantra about the other enemies, but to the dismay of Holleeder believed mainly his sisters and ex, plus the two crown witnesses and a few others.
The court should know that the court has "established a reality that has not existed," said counsel Janssen.
Behind the murders in Brabant of Toon Sweegers (51) and Frank Kerssens (53), a number of attempted murders, and various shooting incidents in the Eindhoven region, there is a conflict about drug trafficking between different groups. The investigation has since promised more than a ton of rewards, but things have not been resolved. That is why the police are now publishing more information and images.
The police previously said that there is a connection between at least ten incidents, all committed between March 2018 and December 2019.
The police also have images of the attack, on July 24, 2018, on two residents of the Insulindelaan in Eindhoven.
The clearest images to date of one of the perpetrators were made during a failed murder attempt in Best. On May 7, 2018, a woman was shot at close range at her home
The police raided a trailer camp in Maarheeze in Noord-Brabant on Friday morning at 7 a.m. All trailers and the entire site on the Vinnen are searched. The police started the searches after a tip that several residents would have firearms in their possession.
One hundred officers and employees of the Public Prosecution Service have been deployed in the large-scale operation. In addition, a platoon of the ME is ready and there are detection dogs.
In 2012, five people were arrested in a raid on the camp in Maarheeze and the police found drugs, cannabis plants and firearms.
In Rotterdam-IJsselmonde, a 30-year-old man was shot to death at his home on Friday morning. The police have arrested two suspects. It concerns a 20-year-old man from Dordrecht and a 21-year-old man from Capelle aan den IJssel. According to a police spokesman, "it looks like a liquidation." Images show that the victim ( nicknamed “Johnnieâ€) is in a front yard. According to local residents, the victim lived there with his Antillean mother and sister. Last autumn, Rotterdam-IJsselmonde was the setting for a conflict between rival youth gangs. Last week, there was another report of a shooting a few blocks away.
Yep, in recent decades they switched from heroin to the production of synthetic drugs. Although they are still involved in heroin and to a lesser extent cocaine (one group operated in the Dutch Antilles). Nearly three quarters of the first generation of Chinese who settled in the Netherlands in 1990 or earlier were born in Hong Kong or the neighboring province of Guandong. The rest come from the coastal province of Zhejiang, south of Shanghai. Chinese from other parts of China were unable to emigrate easily before 1990.
A Belgian businessman was liquidated in Athens on Friday. According to the Antwerp Gazet , the victim is Kristof Waegeman (47). The newspaper writes that he has played a central role in a number of large Antwerp drug investigations. It also included links with the Dutch cocaine trade.and gangster “Billy†Martin Meech, who was recently murdered in Mexico. Waegeman should still serve a 12-year sentence for cocaine trafficking. According to Greek media, the Belgian was met by two hitmen on Friday evening around 9 p.m. and wound up on the street.
Waegeman was the right-hand man of Patrick de G. until 2014. Waegeman got 12 years and de G. got 15 years. De G. was a major "facilitator" in cocaine transports; a lot of Antwerp-based drug gangs contacted De G. because of his large logistics network.
Last week, the national police unit arrested seven suspects from Brabant who allegedly imported cocaine into the Netherlands, through European ports, and laundered large amounts. The police speak of the 'Sesame Street Cartel' because the suspects used names from that series for their mutual communication. The police do not say how much cocaine has been seized. A 52-year-old Dutchman who lives in Spain, was arrested on Saturday in Breda.
Last week, the national police unit arrested seven suspects from Brabant who allegedly imported cocaine into the Netherlands, through European ports, and laundered large amounts. The police speak of the 'Sesame Street Cartel' because the suspects used names from that series for their mutual communication. The police do not say how much cocaine has been seized. A 52-year-old Dutchman who lives in Spain, was arrested on Saturday in Breda.
All this time the Moroccans were shooting each other up, there were plenty of groups in Brabant and Limburg making tons of money in silence.
Last night the Turkish Cevat Bozdag, 58, was shot dead in Rotterdam. Bozdag was a familiar figure in the criminal circuit. He was shot dead while walking his dog and was said to live a few blocks away. He was hit in the head several times. It is still unknown whether the shooter shot from the car or got out. It is clear that there was shot with an automatic weapon. A video shows how dozens of bullets are fired in seconds. A burning car was found in Capelle aan den IJssel. The police are investigating whether it is linked to the shooting.
Customs made the biggest drug catch of the year in Rotterdam yesterday. More than 2020 kilos of cocaine were found in a container full of bananas. The street value of this batch of cocaine is more than 151 million euros. The container came from Guayaquil in Ecuador and was destined for a company in Hungary. The recipient probably has nothing to do with the smuggling.
According to the police, photos of the remains of Naima Jillal (52) who disappeared in Amsterdam in October are circulating in the criminal environment. Therefore, the police said to take into account that she was murdered. Jillal was involved at the highest level in large-scale cocaine trafficking, according to several police investigations. It has also been speculated that Jillal went into hiding voluntarily. Justice and police have been encountering Jillal (“Auntâ€) for years in investigations into large-scale cocaine trafficking. She is described in soft information as a person who, together with other investors, brought large consignments of cocaine to the Netherlands or Belgium Jillal turned up in the Dobrisic investigation, which sentenced “Grandpa Frits†Bridjanand B. (54) this spring. She has also been observed with Roger “Piet Costa†P., another person who appears in several cocaine studies. Jillal is also said to have been in contact with Ridouan Taghi, Mustapha F. and the Surinamese Piet W., who had previously been convicted for cocaine trafficking, who is now at large.
The intended new president of Suriname, Chan Santokhi, is prepared to extradite Desi Bouterse to the Netherlands if they submit a request. Years ago the Court of Appeal in The Hague imposed a 11-year imprisonment in absentia on Bouterse for involvement in a transport of nearly 500 kilos of cocaine.
In a house on the Jan van Duivenvoordestraat in Amsterdam New West, three Colombian men and a woman were arrested on Tuesday. This happened after the police were given 'information' that there was a suspicious situation in two cars.
A sports bag would be transferred from one car to another on the Jan van Duivenvoordestraat in Geuzenveld. Because the agents thought there was a transaction, they decided to intervene around 3 p.m. On the basis of the Opium Act and with the permission of a driver of one of the cars, a house was subsequently searched.
A search of that house resulted in the discovery of a kilo of cocaine, a kilo of MDMA, an amount of about 125,000 euros and a firearm. The agents also stumbled upon a batch of expensive designer clothes, jewelry, packaging materials, pre-folded pony packs and a money counter.
The arrests were made in and around the house. The suspects are men aged 24, 30 and 51 - and a woman aged 21. The investigation is still ongoing.
The Public Prosecution Service has demanded 22 years in prison against Errol J., who is suspected of the liquidation of the Delft top criminal Karel Pronk (60). He was shot up close on August 7, 2018 at a coffee house in Delft.
Hells Angel Errol J., 53, was arrested in Spain in June last year during a routine check by the Spanish police. He was transferred to the Netherlands in early July 2019 .
The motive for the shooting remains unclear. According to the public prosecutor, it was rumored that the two had an argument a few days earlier during a festival or the annual flower parade in Delft, but no concrete evidence has ever been found. "It's not even clear whether the two knew each other, except that they had greeted each other on the coffeehouse terrace."
He was silent about the bullet cases with DNA from J. that were found at the coffee house on Friday in the court in The Hague. He was also silent during the hearing of the lawsuit.
Errol “Mick†J. was without a trace since the liquidation of Karel Pronk and was placed on the National Investigation List in early September 2018. In June 2019, he was arrested on the A2 near the village of Cetina near the city of Zaragoza. During his arrest, in addition to a loaded gun and ammunition, he also had nine knives and handcuffs in his pocket . He was also in possession of makeup, possibly to cover the striking tattoos on his face.
Shortly after his arrest, J. was sentenced in absentia to five months in prison for his involvement in a massive brawl between the now banned motorcycle clubs Hells Angels and Mongols in 2016, when he was still in Spain. At least 30 men were involved in that massive battle on 7 April 2016 in and at the Van der Valkhotel Rotterdam-Blijdorp. Several injured, including one seriously injured, were shot about 20 times.
Users of the PGP telephone service Encrochat have been notified that government entities have hacked the domain. The company says the network has been attacked by "malware," which has weakened security. Because the attack is apparently very serious, the company says "it can no longer guarantee the safety of the phones." The police may have watched live for some time.
The Dutch police previously seized servers from Ennetcom (in 2016 in Canada) and PGPSafe (in 2017 in Costa Rica) and can decipher many exchanged messages from criminals. Encro is also a service that has been widely used in the criminal environment.
Several sources say that it is a team from the Dutch police who have hacked Encro.
'Antwerp underworld leader arrested in Dubai' The Antwerp resident Nordin El H. has been arrested in Dubai. That message from the Antwerp Gazet has since been confirmed by the Antwerp judiciary. El H., is also known locally as “Dikke Nordin van Den Damâ€. He is currently considered to be one of the main suspects behind a series of attacks in recent months in the Antwerp drug environment.
The possible arrest of El H. had been buzzing around in Antwerp's criminal environment for several days.
Nordin El H. also figures in research into drug removals from the port of Antwerp. The organization of Nordin El H. (32) is, according to the Belgian police, one of the leaders of a criminal organization, responsible for drug violence and the import of large quantities of cocaine. It was already known that he lived permanently in Dubai.
El H. is also being prosecuted in the file on the cocaine extractors of Frank “De Tank†V ..
El H. is the first major Belgian suspect arrested in Dubai. Dubai has recently arrested many foreign suspects. In the past six months, Ridouan Taghi, Khalid J. and recently Amir Mekky were arrested in Dubai .
The police arrested four men this week who are suspected of planning a liquidation of criminal Naoufal “Noffel†F. in Berlin in 2015, who had been sentenced to life. Two suspects were already detained because they were sentenced to 30 years in prison for the mistaken identity murder of Djordy Latumahina in 2016. The Public Prosecutor's Office suspects the foursome of wanting to murder Naoufal F. in Berlin. That plan ultimately fell through. The suspects came into the picture through decrypted PGP conversations.
Irish / Dutch drug clans busted because of cocaine and cannabis trafficking. The Irish and Dutch criminal investigators on Friday busted two drug organizations that allegedly smuggled cocaine and weed from the Netherlands to Ireland on a large scale.
OM: Conversations are additional proof of the murder of lawyer June 24, 2020
According to the prosecutors, there are more indications in conversations between suspects Giermo B. (36) and Moreno B. (31) among themselves and between, for example, girlfriends that they have carried out and prepared the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum, Het Parool said .
Eavesdropping equipment On Wednesday there was a hearing in the case before the court in Amsterdam.
The lawyer of the crown witness Nabil B. was murdered on September 18, 2019 in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert. Justice has concluded from the conversations that the intention was to shoot Wiersum earlier, for example on 9, 11 or 16 September.
According to the judiciary, Moreno B. was the shooter and Giermo B. the driver. The detective secretly placed eavesdropping equipment in the car of Moreno M. and his girlfriend. Giermo B. was then arrested.
Be safe In the late evening of September 8, his girlfriend sent Giermo B. a message: 'be safe' and 'as you leave, you will come back'. According to the judiciary, such messages fit in with the idea that the murder plan was being mutually veiled. The girlfriend says that Moreno has to 'puke' every time it is about the lawyer's murder on television.
The two suspects would have observed several times in a Volkswagen Transporter and an Opel Combo Wiersum. Moreno B. is also said to have contacted Wiersum five times, possibly to register as a client. He sent him his business card by text message from abroad on 11 September.
A 50-year-old man who was sentenced in 2013 to eight years' imprisonment for trafficking in various types of (hard) drugs still has to pay more than 50 million euros in criminally earned assets to the State from the Public Prosecution Service. For the court in Rotterdam, the Public Prosecution Service demanded 50,811,156 euros from him.
The man traded crystal meth to Australia and also brought 135 kilos of cocaine from Peru to Europe.
Now, the judiciary has calculated the man's expenditure for the calculation of the criminal assets. In 2013, searches were conducted at multiple locations in the Netherlands and in Spain in condemned homes and in homes in the United Arab Emirates, where information was obtained. In Dubai, records of income and expenses were found, which were kept by the convict's sister. The convict had a company in the United Arab Emirates, which focused on the export of cars to the Netherlands.
Research shows that the company hardly exported cars and hardly any administration was done. That while he and family members received a salary from the company. "The company appears to be a vehicle of the person involved to launder ill-gotten funds, whether or not through cars," the officer said in court.
In addition, at least 50 bank accounts and 14 credit cards are related to the person involved. Investigations have shown that the convicted paid millions to other criminals. He also invested millions in real estate projects in the Netherlands, Spain and Nicaragua. No legal income or assets are known for the person concerned over the period 2000 to 2011. All money flows from or in the sphere of influence of the convicted are therefore made from assets of unknown origin.
In the first half of this year, customs officers confiscated more than twice as much cocaine as in the same period last year. So far this year, 77 shipments with a total of 25,599 kilograms of cocaine were intercepted and seized, compared to 60 shipments with 12,160 kilograms of cocaine in the first half of last year.
These drug shipments were intercepted mainly in the ports of Rotterdam and Vlissingen. The biggest catch was a shipment of 4,515 kilograms of cocaine in Vlissingen in April.
Another 648 kilograms of cocaine was caught by customs officers in investigations unrelated to the seaports.
Customs attributes the increase to better and more intensive cooperation with both national detection services and international customs services. According to the service, it is not clear whether more cocaine is being shipped to and through the Netherlands, or whether the authorities are just getting better at catching shipments.
Customs officers also noticed an increase in synthetic drugs, ecstasy and speed in particular, being sent out of the Netherlands by post. The Dutch authorities are working closely with the authorities in the United States and Australia on this front.
Limburg rapper Kerron suspected in liquidation case of lawyer.. The 23-year-old Jerlonny P., who is on trial for the first time in court on Schiphol on Wednesday for involvement in the liquidation of lawyer Derk Wiersum, has been rapper Kerron for years in both the music and the criminal environment. The rapper from Brunssum accounts for hundreds of thousands of YouTube views, but is also suspected of stealing the white van with which lawyer Wiersum was observed. Jerlonny P. is suspected of stealing a white Volkswagen Transporter in Brunssum in Limburg, which he then allegedly delivered to Ridouan Taghi's cousin. Car theft is a specialty of Jerlonny. In June 2019, he was sentenced to fifteen months in prison for being involved in stealing cars as a member of the Parkstad gang in Limburg. Members of the Parkstad gang committed burglaries and car thefts in the Heerlen and Brunssum region for years.
Top criminal Mink Kok, who has lived in Beirut for many years, barely escaped the mass explosion in the harbor yesterday, he tells Crimesite . He drove 5 minutes before the crash past the harbor area, which is on the main road to the center. His car was damaged, but he and his family are unharmed. In Beirut, a warehouse exploded with an estimated 3,000 kilos of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer raw material that is also often used for bombs.
"It was a close call . We had just driven past that coast road 5 minutes before, when the blow came. I drove past the marina, but not on the side of the sea, because I had driven through it. I felt the whole car shake and thought it was an earthquake. Everything fell out of the blue and then I thought 'shit, has a building collapsed or something?'. That sometimes happens here. Then in my left corner of the eye I saw a kind of mushroom and a plume of smoke and then I thought of a bomb. Because it was so close, it seemed they had blown up the parliament building." Mink Kok, his Lebanese wife and in-laws are all still healthy.
The Dutch Bar Association (NOvA) released a statement saying that it is shocked by law firm Kuijpers & Nillesen Advocaten being targeted in a shooting. Shots were fired at the law firm on Falckstraat in Amsterdam early on Friday morning. No one was injured.
Kuijpers is a prominent criminal defense lawyer, defended among other top criminals Willem Holleeder.
The National Police Unit rolled up a crystal methlab in Montfoort on Thursday. The lab was in operation and the professional and extensive production location was hidden under a large bump of clay. Two men aged 53 and 50 have been arrested. The owner of the site, a 59-year-old man, has also been arrested. The men come from Zaandam, Hoorn and Montfoort. The production site was located in six switched sea containers covered by a layer of dyke reinforcement clay. The location and its entrance were shielded in such a way that they were not visible on aerial photos and from the public road. In addition to more than four kilos of methamphetamine in crystals, the investigators also found 96 liters of methamphetamine oil.
The HARC team intercepted a batch of 743 kilos of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam on Tuesday. A 29-year-old man from The Hague has been arrested. The street value of the cocaine batch is over 56 million euros. The Public Prosecution Service announced this on Saturday.
The party was hidden in a container loaded with bananas. The container arrived on Tuesday with a seagoing vessel from Ecuador. The 29-year-old suspect was brought before the examining magistrate by the public prosecutor on Thursday. He has decided that the man will be detained for fourteen days longer.
The HARC team, a partnership of Customs, FIOD, Seaport Police and the Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam is investigating the case further. The drugs have since been destroyed.
Police and Public Prosecution have come across explosive information in the Marengo investigation about lawyers who appear to act as ‘errand boys’ and are paid by the criminal organization of Ridouan Taghi.
On Friday, the police dismantled the largest cocaine washing facility in the Netherlands in a converted horse riding school in Nijeveen. In the drug lab, cocaine was produced from so-called carrier material, such as clothing. The police have arrested seventeen suspects, she reports Tuesday.
In the laundry, the police found tens of thousands of liters of chemicals and about 100 kilos of cocaine. Sleeping quarters and recreation areas were also built at the riding school. The police arrested sixteen suspects in the Drenthe town, including the owner of the site.
The police also raided warehouses in Elshout and Apeldoorn the same day. In the latter location, the police found about 120,000 kilos of carrier material. Cocaine is extracted from this carrier material through a chemical process. A suspect has been arrested in Apeldoorn.
Three of the suspects have Dutch nationality, one of which also has a Colombian passport. Thirteen suspects are Colombian and one is Turkish. The police do not rule out multiple arrests. The suspects will be brought before the examining magistrate on Wednesday and Thursday.
Court handles Taghi's requests behind closed doors The court is handling a number of requests by Ridouan Taghi behind closed doors. This means that apart from the litigants - the court, prosecutors, his lawyer and security - no one is allowed to be present in the courtroom and hear what it is about.
Taghi's lawyer Inez Weski had asked for the doors to be closed in making her requests. The privacy of her client is the reason for this, according to the counsel. The 42-year-old Taghi is the main suspect in the large liquidation process Marengo. The Public Prosecution Service has unsuccessfully opposed the closing of the doors.
Weski's requests are related to his transfer, but she made no further explanation. From Tuesday, an interim session will take place in the extra secure courtroom at Schiphol. Taghi is not present in person. He also did not appear in court at previous hearings this year.
How a Quiet Corner of Northern Europe Became a Theatre of Extreme Drug Warfare Underworld violence is on the up in the otherwise peaceful countries of Belgium and the Netherlands – and it’s all linked to the international cocaine trade.
Ridouan Taghi, who is suspected of multiple liquidations, had at least one corrupt contact at the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. That writes NRC Handelsblad on the basis of a report by July 26, 2018 from an investigation into the military police. The investigation into the now convicted man is called "Seducing Herb" and ran from mid-2015 at the National Criminal Investigation Department. The employee concerned was convicted earlier this year for violating his official secret. He received a partly suspended prison sentence of 180 days and a community service sentence. He also passed on information to the Amsterdam criminal Gwenette Martha, who was murdered in 2014.
Lawyers here are mad because police followed two of them to Dubai to meet a client. They were hunting the most wanted man Taghi, but it was a different client. The problem is it wasn't authorized and they didn't put in the files.
In the night from Friday to Saturday, someone was kidnapped in front of a busy restaurant in Marbella. Spanish media write that it is a Dutch person. A group of eight armed men would have held the person at gunpoint and pulled him out of his car and taken him away.
This happened just after midnight in the parking lot of restaurant KAH in Nueva AndalucÃa, a district west of Marbella. The restaurant is located in a strip of entertainment at the former plaza de toros, not far from the marina of Puerto Banús.
Witnesses say about eight men arrived in two vehicles, preventing a Mercedes G-Wagon and a Lamborghini from leaving. In front of many witnesses, the man was taken 'within seconds'. All in all, the action would have been carried out lightning fast. The National Police has launched a major investigation into the events.
According to witnesses, the Dutchman drove a car of more than a ton.
The man who was shot on Tuesday afternoon in the Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt is Danzel S. (23), better known as rapper Bigidagoe from Holendrecht, Amsterdam-Zuidoost. He is badly injured. Bigidagoe is seen as the right-hand man of Joël H., aka Joey AK , the frontman of rap formation Zone 6. A dark-clad hooded man, possibly wearing dreadlocks, shot him around 3:45 PM . Zone 6 rap formation are linked to the international drug trade, some from the periphery of the group have been liquidated.
The man who was shot on Tuesday afternoon in the Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt is Danzel S. (23), better known as rapper Bigidagoe from Holendrecht, Amsterdam-Zuidoost. He is badly injured. Bigidagoe is seen as the right-hand man of Joël H., aka Joey AK , the frontman of rap formation Zone 6. A dark-clad hooded man, possibly wearing dreadlocks, shot him around 3:45 PM . Zone 6 rap formation are linked to the international drug trade, some from the periphery of the group have been liquidated.
Is this a continuation of the conflict the Hoptillen Gang (Green Gang) had with the Kloekhorststraat Gang? I know the Hoptillen side were mostly Curaçaoans and the Kloekhorststraat side were mostly Maroons from Suriname. The first ran a drug line from Curaçao into Amsterdam while the latter were connected to a cartel with a base in Moengo. The Zone 6 guys seem to have a same kind of background as the gang from Kloekhorststraat.
The man who was shot on Tuesday afternoon in the Amsterdam Rivierenbuurt is Danzel S. (23), better known as rapper Bigidagoe from Holendrecht, Amsterdam-Zuidoost. He is badly injured. Bigidagoe is seen as the right-hand man of Joël H., aka Joey AK , the frontman of rap formation Zone 6. A dark-clad hooded man, possibly wearing dreadlocks, shot him around 3:45 PM . Zone 6 rap formation are linked to the international drug trade, some from the periphery of the group have been liquidated.
Is this a continuation of the conflict the Hoptillen Gang (Green Gang) had with the Kloekhorststraat Gang? I know the Hoptillen side were mostly Curaçaoans and the Kloekhorststraat side were mostly Maroons from Suriname. The first ran a drug line from Curaçao into Amsterdam while the latter were connected to a cartel with a base in Moengo. The Zone 6 guys seem to have a same kind of background as the gang from Kloekhorststraat.
No idea, but yeah Bigidagoe and most of Zone 6 are Surinamese. Holendrecht where they come from is one of the roughest places in the Bijlmer and all of Holland, a ghetto really. Zone 6 are now the new icon of a generation of criminal rappers. Joey AK was recently told by the police that he is on a death list. Friends or acquaintances from the rap, club and drug scene have been murdered recently, such as Inchomar Balentien, Genciël 'Genna' Feller and the former professional football player Kelvin Maynard..
His obesity probably saved his life. Bigidagoe, who with his name and entire appearance gives a nod to the American rapper The Notorious BIG aka Biggie Smalls, shot dead in 1997.
The man who died in a shooting in Uden on Sunday evening is 53-year-old kickboxing trainer Stef Muller from Tilburg. Muller is well known in the martial arts world, but he also came into contact with the law. In 2017, during a raid on his former home in Mariahout, the police found a firearm and attributes for the production of ecstasy.
Muller was shot on Sunday evening around 19.45 on the Batenburglaan in Uden. A 47-year-old man from Nijmegen was arrested as a suspect in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene. A 30-year-old man from Uden has also been arrested. The police are still looking for the third suspect.
According to Omroep Brabant, Stef Muller belongs to a well-known family from the neighboring Beek en Donk, where he himself grew up. He had his own metal business and was a well-known face and gifted trainer in the martial arts. For example, he temporarily assisted multiple world kickboxing champion Nieky Holzken from Helmond.
Customs at Mexico City International Airport seized 95 liters of liquid methamphetamine on Monday. The shipment was on its way to the Netherlands.
The catch was made during a routine inspection by Mexican Navy personnel with a pair of sniffer dogs. The meth was hidden in 119 lamps. The navy is widely used in the fight against drugs in Mexico because it is one of the least corruption-affected government organizations.
In Mexico, drug organizations produce meth, most of which is smuggled into the United States. In addition, those networks smuggle a lot of raw materials for meth (ephedrine) to the US.
In recent years, crystal meth has also been made in illegal laboratories in the Netherlands.
There are indications that the Mexican drug world was involved in the crystal methlab found in Willemsoord, Overijssel. This can be concluded from the criminal file, Maarten Meulemeesters said. He is the lawyer of the 65-year-old owner of the 'drug villa', who was arrested at the end of May.
A cartel of Mexican drug criminals would have played a part in setting up the lab and producing the narcotics in the spacious house on the Ronde Blesse , says Meulemeesters. He cannot say how large that share was. He does not want to go into details from the file. He also leaves open the question on which indications the lawyer relies and which drug cartel it concerns.
According to the criminal lawyer, that there are still suspects at large in this case is quite possible. Running a drug lab of this size alone seems next to impossible, Meulemeesters also acknowledges. The police previously reported that new arrests are not ruled out.
But for the time being the owner (65) of the house is the only suspect. Since the end of July, he has been allowed to await the trial under certain conditions in freedom .
He and his lawyer choose to remain silent to the press. His lawyer does not want to reveal whether he cooperates with the authorities. Only at the hearing will it become clear how the owner sees his role in this case. It is therefore unknown how many other persons must have been involved in the lab in Willemsoord according to the lawyer.
It would not be the first time that Mexicans are involved in the production of crystal meth in the Netherlands. The National Police warned in May in De Telegraaf that more and more drug cartels from Mexico are moving to the Netherlands to help cook and transport the highly addictive hard drug. In addition, several Mexicans were arrested last year for involvement in meth labs in, among others, Herwijnen and Achter Drempt in Gelderland.
The drug world in Mexico is known as ruthless and extremely violent. Nevertheless, Meulemeesters believes that his client has nothing to fear from a settlement or other threats.
An international investigation into a drug trafficking and money laundering led to 17 arrests on Wednesday including ten in the Netherlands, police said in a statement. Piet S., known in the criminal underworld as "De Dikke" and with reported ties to the illegal drugs trade and street level assassinations, was believed to be one of those taken into custody, the Telegraaf said.
Nearly a thousand police officers carried out dozens of raids simultaneously at locations in Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Spain. The investigation was sparked by information uncovered by Dutch authorities when they gained access into the EncroChat system, an organization which provides encrypted phones.
A man was shot dead in Rotterdam on Wednesday evening. That happened on the Parallelweg in Rotterdam South. Passers-by found him seriously injured in a car around 9 p.m., police say. A generally reliable source said that the victim is a man of Turkish descent. Emergency services started resuscitation, but the man died of his injuries on the spot. The police have started a major investigation.
Investigation into encrypted communications between criminals, which the police got access to by breaking into the EncroChat systems, also revealed major corruption within the Dutch police. But we see that criminals are also looking for such places outside the government, for example at companies. Corruption occurs in the full width of society. This shows the undermining nature of organized crime.
Two "ringleaders" of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel have visited the Netherlands last year, with tourist visa, police said. This visit may be related to laboratories for the production of crystal meth.
Police are concerned about crystal meth. A record number of meth labs were discovered in the Netherlands in 2020. Crystal meth investigations are now the top priority, said Andy Kraag, head of the National Investigation Department. The police suspect that Mexican criminal organizations cooperate with Dutch people. Police Commissioner Max Daniel in the AD:
We know from our visit to Mexico that leaders of the Sinaloa cartel have visited the Netherlands. Last summer, with a tourist visa. We use information from Encrochat to gain insight into what exactly they came here to do.
According to The Telegraaf a conflict about sixty million euros may be the motive for the liquidation of the 25-year-old criminal Ibrahim Azaim. Azaim, who was killed in Rotterdam on May 10, was an important partner of drug lord Roger "Pietje Costa" P, who was arrested in June. An Iranian is said to be behind the murder.
Drug lord Roger P. (48, alias “Piet Costaâ€), suspected of large-scale cocaine trafficking, was detained in his cell on Wednesday on suspicion of ordering the construction of the torture containers at Wouwse Plantage. That writes Het Parool.
Last month it was announced that the police suspected the Rotterdam criminal of having ordered the furnishing of containers with equipment to interrogate people in a violent manner. Justice has now sued P. as the client for the construction of the 'underworld prison'. His lawyer Jan-Hein Kuijpers confirms the arrest, but according to the newspaper does not want to comment further.
According to investigators, Roger P. communicated in decrypted EncroChat messages under the nickname “Luxury Balloon†with the builders of the torture complex. The suspect Robin van O. from Utrecht is said to have led this. His nickname was “Slempo†according to the police.
Piet Costa was arrested in June in a luxury apartment in Rotterdam. He is suspected of having imported thousands of kilos of cocaine in 2015 and 2016, and of preparing cocaine shipments from March to June 2020.
The 66-year-old Koos Reuvers from Lith was arrested by the police in Spain on Wednesday evening, according to the Brabants Dagblad . R. was a fugitive after he was sentenced in July 2017 by the court in Den Bosch to a prison sentence of four years for a double attempt at manslaughter
The two brothers were each in a car during a chase by the police and tried to push the police car off the road. According to the police, speeds of 150 kilometers per hour were reached. After R.'s car came to a stop in a ditch, he assaulted one of the officers by spraying pepper spray in his eyes. His 61-year-old brother was previously arrested in the case and is still in prison.
R. has said he was under serious threat. The arrest took place in Malaga during a police check. R. is a well-known name in the underworld since the 80s.
The criminal leader Ridouan Taghi and his associates are now linked to at least 56 liquidations. This includes 13 'mistaken murders' where gunmen accidentally killed completely innocent people. Taghi faces life in prison, but two of his sons are groomed as heirs to the throne.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020 - 10:40 Dutch drug dealer linked to Cali Cartel arrested in Spain
The Spanish police arrested a Dutch drug trafficker who is linked to the Colombian Cali Cartel. The man is suspected of laundering some 6 million euros in cryptocurrency, the Spanish police said on Sunday. The police did not reveal his identity, only saying that he is a Dutch national of Colombian descent.
The man was arrested in the coastal province of Malaga with the help of the Dutch police. He represented the notorious Colombian drug syndicate in Europe, in the Netherlands and United Kingdom in particular, the Spanish police said.
This investigation was launched in 2018, when the Spanish authorities became aware of a criminal gang based in Malaga that trafficked drugs in multiple European countries. The investigation led to the Dutch man, who moved to a villa in the coastal town of Marbella in order to evade the Dutch police, according to the Spanish authorities. When the man was identified, the help of the Dutch police were called in.
Upon his arrest at his villa, the Spanish authorities seized 85 thousand euros in cash, three cars, expensive watches, credit cards connected to cryptocurrency accounts, computers and cell phones. In the Netherlands, the police seized 170 thousand dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020 - 10:40 Dutch drug dealer linked to Cali Cartel arrested in Spain
The Spanish police arrested a Dutch drug trafficker who is linked to the Colombian Cali Cartel. The man is suspected of laundering some 6 million euros in cryptocurrency, the Spanish police said on Sunday. The police did not reveal his identity, only saying that he is a Dutch national of Colombian descent.
The man was arrested in the coastal province of Malaga with the help of the Dutch police. He represented the notorious Colombian drug syndicate in Europe, in the Netherlands and United Kingdom in particular, the Spanish police said.
This investigation was launched in 2018, when the Spanish authorities became aware of a criminal gang based in Malaga that trafficked drugs in multiple European countries. The investigation led to the Dutch man, who moved to a villa in the coastal town of Marbella in order to evade the Dutch police, according to the Spanish authorities. When the man was identified, the help of the Dutch police were called in.
Upon his arrest at his villa, the Spanish authorities seized 85 thousand euros in cash, three cars, expensive watches, credit cards connected to cryptocurrency accounts, computers and cell phones. In the Netherlands, the police seized 170 thousand dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
Mario Halley, a former partner of Curtis 'Cocky' Warren. Dutch police raided Halley's home in Delft near Rotterdam, following a joint operation with Spanish officers.
Halley was jailed for six years for his part in a 1991 £80 million cocaine importation from Colombia to Britain masterminded by ex-bouncer Warren.
Spanish police described the Dutch-Colombian, a sort of European salesman for the feared Cali Cartel formed as a breakaway from Pablo Escobar and his Medellin associates in the late 80s, as Warren's 'long-time' associate.
The Curacao-born suspect Shurandy ‘Tyson’ Quant was arrested in Dubai. The arrest was carried out by a special police unit in Dubai at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Sint Maarten. S.Q. is suspected of commissioning various assassinations, kidnapping, running a criminal organization and money laundering. Q. is one of the leaders of the Curaçao / Dutch street and crime crew No Limit Soldiers (NLS), who carried out the murder of politician Helmin Wiels in 2013. The arrest was made at the request of the Public Prosecution Service of Sint Maarten. Although S.Q. was not residing in Curacao or Sint Maarten, his influence remained undiminished in these countries. This was as a result of his presumably worldwide criminal network. The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curaçao is now requesting his extradition. In January 2016, Q. was acquitted by the court of Haarlem (after a claim of 15 years in prison) on appeal for cocaine smuggling to the Netherlands and involvement in a liquidation attempt of an Antillean with the nickname “Quickâ€. Q. stayed in the Extra Security Facility (EBI) in Vught for a longer period of time. He was arrested in Jamaica in 2013, where he had resided legally since October 2012.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020 - 08:41 Amsterdam restaurant targeted in shooting Multiple shots were fired at an Italian restaurant on Westerstraat in the center of Amsterdam overnight. Photos from the scene show at least five bullet holes in the restaurant's window.
The shooting was reported to the police at around 00:40 a.m. on Monday, according to AT5. The police cordoned off the area and forensic investigators were deployed to investigate.
Anonymous reports from the criminal intelligence service would show that the crime boss Piet S. (64) from The Hague, who was arrested in September, was in close contact with Satudarah MC, banned in the Netherlands. De Telegraaf writes that the informants of the police said that the club would protect the drug organization of Piet S. in exchange for cocaine and money.
The Spanish police have observed a meeting between Satudarah members and S. in Spain. S. was also present with Satudarah members at a funeral in Nootdorp. The police photographed a hug by Piet S. and Angelo M. The head of Satudarah in Europe.
In September, S. and sixteen others were arrested for, among other things, large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering in a Dutch-Spanish investigation. The evidence in the case mainly comes from cracked messages from the communication service Encrochat.
The “Taxus†investigation started in 2016 on the basis of a series of tips from the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI) of the police. S. would import very large quantities of cocaine to Europe and die in the money. S. would also trade in raw materials for synthetic drugs and hash. On paper S. has no income. That is the reason that the investigation focused on S. on a large scale.
S. turned out to travel frequently to Spain, South America and Dubai. His network had contacts in Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, China, Colombia and Australia, according to the police.
Thousands of members Satudarah is not banned in most countries and is likely to have thousands of members worldwide. Angelo M. is not a suspect in the Taxus case. He is involved with other leaders of the national board of the club in a drawn-out lawsuit as a suspect of leading a criminal organization. The suspects in that case are now free.
On March 15 there will be a preparatory hearing on the case of Piet S. in the court in The Hague.
It could also be tunnel vision from LE though...wouldn't be the first time they accuse an old school gangster for stuff like this just because of his name and legacy...
It could also be tunnel vision from LE though...wouldn't be the first time they accuse an old school gangster for stuff like this just because of his name and legacy...
Schneider is old school penoze travellers run the underworld here..
The long-elusive gang of 'godfather' Piet S. (64) from The Hague, who was arrested in September, was able to smuggle many tens of tons of drugs to Europe thanks to corrupt contacts at customs. The organization had harbors in Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The police have established the identity of the murdered man who was found at the Zeeuwse Oesterdam. It is 50-year-old Jose Francisco Velasquez Castillo. Before his liquidation, the man stayed for some time under the false identity of a man from Venezuela in Belgium and the Netherlands, including in the house of the Dutch former drug boss John Heijnen in Sint Willebrord.
The body was found on October 17, 2020 at the Oesterdam in Tholen. The police received tips as a result of, among other things, a broadcast in Opsporing Verzocht. Jose Velasquez Castillo from Colombia was also called “Paco†according to the police. He was killed by violence and his body was then left at the Oesterdam. Now that his identity has been established, his body will be handed over to the family in Colombia.
The investigation into the murder is being continued by a large-scale investigation team of at least twenty detectives.
John Heijnen (63) from Sint Willebrord responded after the photo of the victim was on television. Heijnen says that Velasquez had stayed with him for seven months. Heijnen handed over a suitcase with the victim's clothing and personal items to the police, including his Colombian passport and items he had kept.
John H. is known for being the leader of the York gang, according to police and judicial authorities. That was a large internationally branched drug organization that distributed Brabant ecstasy pills, hash and coke. On October 11, 1999, 44 suspects were arrested, including John H. Police found numerous types of drugs and a complete arsenal of weapons.
Their contact Eddie S., aka The Nose, lived in Amsterdam. This Israeli businessman traded the ecstasy pills in the US and Israel. In Israel, police deployed an undercover agent to expose the gang. It was big news there when Operation Octopus led to the arrest of the Middle East branch. Eddie S. owns various buildings in the capital
Honestly I think they're trying to pin stuff on Piet he's not involved with. He's an aging guy now, he did his business and he did his time. They should leave him in peace.
Honestly I think they're trying to pin stuff on Piet he's not involved with. He's an aging guy now, he did his business and he did his time. They should leave him in peace.
Most evidence comes from Encrochat, but there has to be more to convict him, problem for him a cousin and his son Freddy are also suspected in this case. Schneider has enough money he doesn't have to work anymore.
The Dutch drug lord Henk Rommy (69), aka the Black Cobra, returned to the Netherlands on Friday. That writes De Telegraaf. Rommy was imprisoned in the United States for almost 16 years for preparing ecstasy smuggling. He was arrested in Spain in 2003 and extradited to the US two years later, where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
DEA The Surinamese / Utrecht drug criminal was arrested in Spain in 2003 by an undercover operation of the American anti-narcotics brigade DEA. According to the DEA, Rommy has offered to mediate in the smuggling of a million ecstasy pills to the US.
Penalty discount According to the Black Cobra there was talk of provocation, which is not allowed in the Netherlands. In January 2005, Rommy was extradited to the US. In September 2005, he was sentenced to 20 years in New York. He received a penalty discount.
Immediately picked up again In the Netherlands, Rommy was immediately detained because he still has to serve an old prison sentence from 2001 of fourteen months for a drug offense. Rommy is also facing a prosecution. He is suspected of ordering the double murder in 1993 of hash dealer Henie Shamel and his girlfriend in Antwerp.
One of the suspects who was arrested on August 7, 2020 at a major cocaine laundry in Nijeveen (Drenthe) is 40-year-old Colombian top criminal Alejandro C. He was sentenced in the United States to 32 years in prison in 2010 and released early in 2018, after which he returned to Colombia.
During the raid by an arrest team last summer, Alejandro C. was present in the cocaine laundry in a horse riding school in Nijeveen. According to the police, the cocaine laundry was the largest ever found in the Netherlands. The operation was a "drug laundry," in which drugs were "washed out" of clothes, according to police. According to the judiciary, the lab's annual turnover was good for more than 2.1 billion euros.
The person who was shot dead in Bergen aan Zee on Tuesday afternoon is, according to the police, a 45-year-old man from Colombia. The police were alerted at around 3:45 pm by several bystanders who had witnessed a conflict, after which shots were fired. After that there was a confrontation elsewhere near Bergen.
The witnesses indicated that several people argued with each other. One injured person was pulled into a gray car. The driver of this car then drove off at high speed. The other parties involved in the conflict got into at least three cars, including a white Mercedes and a dark-colored Audi, and also left at great speed towards the Zeeweg.
On Sunday it is 10 years they killed crime lord Stanley Marshall Hillis, many people said nothing went down in Amsterdam without his consent. Hillis was mentioned in many criminal cases as a person who knew everything. Hillis started his criminal career as a bank robber. He committed a number of robberies together with the notorious Yugoslav criminals Željko 'Arkan' Ražnatović and Kola Kostovski. Hillis quickly made a name for himself in the underworld, mainly because he escaped twice from the prison of Scheveningen and once from the Koepelgevangenis in Arnhem. He also managed to escape from the Bijlmer prison several times .
On February 21, 2011, Hillis was shot at around noon in the Watergraafsmeer in his car. He died on the spot. Hillis is said to have had an appointment with Donald Groen.The National Criminal Investigation Department was aware of this appointment and made sure that a trailer containing two detectives was parked next to the car. Those detectives would overhear the conversation between the two men. When the fire was opened on Hillis, there were several detectives in the immediate vicinity, but due to poor communication, this could not lead to the arrest of the perpetrators. Groen was arrested on his arrival shortly after the murder, but he was later released. Hillis was killed with 37 bullets .
When lawyers Nico Meijering and Leon van Kleef met a client in a hotel lobby in Dubai in June 2019, an unknown person joined them. The lawyers were shadowed by the Dubai Police because the Dutch police hoped that they would meet the then fugitive Ridouan Taghi in Dubai. The Algemeen Dagblad now writes that the police knew that the unknown man was the Irishman Daniel Kinahan, a man with an infamous name in the criminal world.
The two lawyers were talking to their client Khalid J. when a fourth person joined them. The Dutch police were in contact with the Dubai Police during the operation and thought for a short time that this person was Taghi. But because the identification was not sufficient, the man was not arrested.
Several police sources have now told the Algemeen Dagblad that the man (disguised with cap and glasses) was Daniel Kinahan. The Dubai detectives were able to identify Kinahan. The lawyers only wanted to say to the newspaper that "there was indeed someone who had no outward resemblance to Taghi." \ Daniel Kinahan has lived in Dubai since 2015. There he profiles himself as a bona fide businessman who is active as a boxing promoter, among other things. Irish police believe he is still involved in criminal cases.
The Kinahan family is notorious and embroiled in a bloody feud with Irish criminals. Father Christy Kinahan, who speaks Dutch, has been convicted of money laundering , among other things .
The police suspect that Ridouan Taghi has collaborated with the Kinahan's, who are in the drug trade on the Spanish Costa del Sol.
A drug lab was found Wednesday morning in a warehouse of arms dealer Jan B. in Hulten. A 39-year-old man from Croatia has been arrested. A production lab for synthetic drugs is said to have been established in the shed on Hulteneindsestraat near Jan B.'s house.
The police raided after a report came in about a suspicious situation. According to BN / De Stem , a trailer was parked at the warehouse that was registered as stolen. The 39-year-old Croat has been arrested on the spot.
Jan B. (70) has been in prison for almost four years for, among other things, the arms trade and the disposal of the body of a man who was a police informant. He was also convicted of threatening Mayor Jan Boelhouwer of Gilze-Rijen.
Henk R., aka the Black Cobra, was urgently transferred to the prison in Lelystad after a 'birthday GREETING ' with fireworks. R., who has been detained in the Dordtse Poorten prison facility in Dordrecht since last month, was surprised on Thursday evening with a fireworks display because of his seventieth birthday. Family and friends lit the fireworks outside the prison walls, which led to quite a commotion in Dordrecht. It now appears that the mayor of Dordrecht demanded from the judicial authorities on Friday that R. immediately leave his municipality. The Cobra was therefore transported to the Lelystad penal institution yesterday by special transport, his lawyer, Mark Teurlings, confirms when asked. “It is bizarre that a playful surprise arranged by third parties is charged to him after all that he has experienced without his knowing or being able to prevent it. I therefore strongly protest against the request for the transfer of the mayor, apparently for political gain, â€said Teurlings. On Monday, De Telegraaf revealed that Henk R., after serving a sentence of eighteen years in the US, is being prosecuted in the Netherlands for a double murder in 1993 in Antwerp. Henk R. was convicted in the US of conspiracy in connection with an ecstasy smuggling. After his transfer to the Netherlands, he is now serving an old sentence for drug trafficking and likely to be sentenced to life in the murder case that the Public Prosecution has started against him.
Rico the Chilean. and Taghi would have put a price on the head of the Amsterdam top criminal Danny K. and everyone who would belong to his group. This is striking since Rico visited Danny K. in 2006 when he was detained, but at the same time it shows once again that old friends can one day become each other's rivals.
In 2014 and 2015 there were several attacks on people from the periphery of Danny K. For example, in November 2014 martial artist Hans Nijman was liquidated in Beverwijk. In June 2015 Lucas Boom is shot in Zaandam and in November 2015 a failed liquidation attempt takes place in Diemen-Noord on Peter “Pjotr†R.
According to "insiders" she was ripping off Dutch traveller groups from Brabant as well as Moroccan groups. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It's rumored that in the underworld there are pictures circulating of her maimed and dismembered remains. Don't know if that's really true though...could be that it's another urban myth that the journalists use to make this story seem a bit more sensationalist.
According to "insiders" she was ripping off Dutch traveller groups from Brabant as well as Moroccan groups. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It's rumored that in the underworld there are pictures circulating of her maimed and dismembered remains. Don't know if that's really true though...could be that it's another urban myth that the journalists use to make this story seem a bit more sensationalist.
De Telegraaf is the most sensationalist newspaper but also powerful with good connections. That's why Iliass K. ordered a group of criminals from within his prison cell to commit an attack on the editorial office of De Telegraaf in 2019, the attack with a car could have been much worse. After Taghi , Rico de Chileen and Piet Costa the new crime king is "Bolle Jos" aka 'El Presidente'. Josje comes from a crime family from Breda. His father belonged to the notorious Brabant Juliët gang.
In the Amsterdam hotel rooms where the police found six Colombians on 16 February after a deadly shooting in Bergen aan Zee, nearly 600,000 euros of cash was in suitcases.
Because the three men and three women are no longer in complete restrictions since this week, lawyer Koopman is now allowed to say something about the involvement of his client, a Colombian woman who lives in Madrid. She was “friends†or “acquaintances†with the 45-year-old Colombian who was shot dead on February 16 in a parking lot near the beach entrance of Bergen aan Zee.
According to the lawyer, the victim may have been held hostage. His wife and son allegedly put him in a car when he was shot and drove to the center. There the car was blocked by the police on Stationsstraat and the man died.
According to Koopman, several cars drove away from Bergen aan Zee that afternoon, both those of the gunmen and the six Colombian suspects. The suspected getaway car of the still fugitive gunmen (a white Mercedes with white German license plate) was found later that evening at a car company in Egmond aan den Hoef.
The six Colombian suspects were arrested in an Amsterdam hotel. Nearly six tons of cash was found in three hotel rooms. There would also have been two alarm pistols. The Colombians were initially suspected of murder, but after an investigation, the judiciary adjusted these charges to money laundering and illegal possession of weapons.
According to Koopman, the police and the judiciary knew immediately that the six had not fired, but 'belonged to the victim'.
The motive for the shooting is still unclear. It is suspected that the perpetrators come from Germany.
@TKJ I'm pretty familiar with the travellers here in the North. Groningen Veendam and Emmen. De Ark is the biggest and oldest 'woonwagencentrum' in Holland.
@TKJ I'm pretty familiar with the travellers here in the North. Groningen Veendam and Emmen. De Ark is the biggest and oldest 'woonwagencentrum' in Holland.
Haha yeah De Ark used to have a football team; WKE
In the Netherlands when people are charged they don't release their last name?
Journalists in the Netherlands will refrain from releasing the last name of an arrested underworld figure, except when they feel the name is already public knowledge (like Holleeder for instance).
In the UK it's different. They release full names and everything. In the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany...they rarely release the last name. Especially in France they usually don't even release the first names of the criminals.
Prime suspect Taghi tomorrow for the first time at Marengo case, one of the largest trials ever Ridouan Taghi has never wanted to appear at a hearing in his case since he was arrested in Dubai a year and a half ago. Tomorrow he is expected in court for the first time.
"Because the court wants all suspects to be there," says his lawyer Inez Weski. "So we'll all be there."
Tomorrow morning the court in Amsterdam will start with the substantive treatment of the trial against Taghi and his 16 co-defendants. They may then respond to the charge. It was actually planned to start in February, but the court postponed the hearing for a month due to corona.
After three years of preparatory hearings, the Marengo trial has become one of the most controversial lawsuits in the Netherlands ever. It fits seamlessly into the list of mega-processes of recent years: Passage liquidation process (duration: ten years), the Holleeder case (file size: half a million pages) and the MH17 process (budgeted costs: 54 million euros).
Such exact figures are lacking for the Marengo trial, but it is certain that this case, measured in time, file pages and costs, is also gigantic. After tomorrow dozens of session days will follow, spread out over the coming year. A sentence is not expected until 2022 and ultimately, of course, a judgment.
Lawyer Inez Weski at the extra secure court in Amsterdam Osdorp on January 13, 2021 ANP
Where the case started with two suspects and one murder, the investigation ended with 17 suspects and a multitude of crimes. The group, in varying composition, is held responsible for six executed liquidations, a number of attempts to do so and a series of plans. The total number of murder orders in this case is thirteen according to the Public Prosecution Service.
Some targets are still alive because they could barely escape from a shooting or were in hiding in haste. Sometimes victims crawled through the eye of the needle without even realizing it.
A few liquidations failed because the gunmen did not monitor their phones, the weapon faltered or the police towed the prepared (stolen) getaway car.
The seventeen suspects would have worked together as spotter (someone who keeps an eye on the intended victims), head (shooter), driver, controller or client. In mutual reports they are said to have decided on life and death in a chilling tone.
Their undisputed leader was Ridouan Taghi , says the OM. As a cocaine wholesaler, he is said to have issued one murder order after another from Dubai.
Before and after The Marengo trial is about assassination orders from 2015 and 2016. Taghi is also associated with liquidations before that time, but is not prosecuted for that. He also ordered murders after that time, says justice. He would have used Caloh Wagoh motorcycle club for this. This group is on trial in a separate process, which is handled simultaneously with the Marengo process.
The most important evidence against the suspects comes from intercepted communications and statements by crown witness Nabil B., who stepped out of Taghi's organization when he was threatened with murder. B. is also on trial in the Marengo trial for his involvement in liquidations. In exchange for his statements, the Public Prosecution Service will demand 12 years in prison instead of 24 years.
Until now, the Public Prosecution Service has not missed an opportunity to emphasize that these are cold-blooded, serious criminals. The defense, on the other hand, wants to demonstrate that the Public Prosecution Service has gone too far in many respects: with the cracking of the server that yielded millions of messages as evidence, with the interpretation of all those messages, with the use of a crown witness who would be unreliable and with unorthodox detection methods such as shadowing lawyers.
Rule of law test "This trial is the ultimate test for the rule of law," says criminal lawyer Jillis Roelse, who is following the case closely. "There is discussion about a large number of points of principle. The interests of both the Public Prosecution Service and the defense are enormous."
According to Roelse, Marengo is also the process in which "our naivety is finally shaken off". "For many people in the criminal investigation system, this case has been a wake-up call to the enormous impact of organized crime."
In the course of the trial, both the brother and the attorney of the crown witness were murdered. A large number of participants in the Marengo trial are protected: prosecutors, judges and some lawyers. Since the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum in 2019, every hearing has been accompanied by strict security measures.
“ The threat posed by the organization around Taghi is undiminished
Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, NCTV It shows how much serious crime has hardened, says Hans Nelen, professor of criminology at the University of Maastricht. "In the nineties, the time of Willem Holleeder, there was also intimidation and violence. But it seems that the current generation of criminals is more ruthless."
That is why heavily armed agents will again be at the door of the court tomorrow. "The threat posed by the organization around Taghi is undiminished," says Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, who coordinates the security of process participants as National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security.
The main suspects are detained, but the authorities are still taking their clout into account. "This means that we, together with the security services, the police and the Public Prosecution Service, continuously conduct threat analyzes and look at what measures are needed," Aalbersberg said.
Taghi become a hero On the street, Taghi has become a hero among some young people, notes criminologist Abdessamad Bouabid of Erasmus University in Rotterdam - just as Willem Holleeder became an idol before.
According to Bouabid, this has to do with a certain mentality that some of the young people identify with. Fussing about everyone, being tough, making money quickly and gaining status. "Taghi is the epitome of these street values. He has fooled the police for a long time and is someone who knows how to hit even the untouchables."
Taghi's lawyer is now green and yellow annoyed by all the stories that have been circulating about her client since the start of the trial. “Every line between law, injustice and fact has been broken in the public debate, only the sensation around my client seems to count,†attorney Inez Weski said earlier.
"Lies and Rumors" Taghi also does not want to pay any attention to his case, according to the first interrogation after his arrest, which Het Parool published about. He denies everything: "Truth-finding does not exist in my case. Everything is based on lies and rumors. Everything that happens in the Netherlands, I have probably done."
That he will eventually get a life sentence seems to be certain for the main suspect himself. "It is better to spend the money from this mock trial on the teacher shortage, on care, on the police shortage, than on me."
Taghi was probably first moved by helicopter from prison in Brabant to Amsterdam, because with those guys an escape attempt is possible even with all the security.
Extreme security at Amsterdam court as assassinations trial starts An extreme amount of security is surrounding the Amsterdam high-security court on Monday as the Marengo process is about to start. The trial revolves around the drug-centered gang allegedly run by Ridouan Taghi and multiple assassinations they are suspected of ordering or committing.
The first day of the trial started at 10:00 a.m. on Monday. Police cars are on the parking deck on the roof of the nearby MediaMarkt, a drone is circling in the air, and heavily armed police officers are on the street, ANP reports. Riot police officers are also present, and a police helicopter was spotted circling above the court bunker. The streets leading to the court are cordoned off on both sides.
A total of 17 suspects are on trial in the Marengo process, including Taghi himself. Almost all of them are expected to appear on Monday. Only Said R. will not appear. He is still in Colombia, awaiting extradition to the Netherlands.
Key witness Nabil B. linked this drug-centered gang to multiple murders and attempts thereto. This case already shook the Netherlands, when Nabil B.'s lawyer Derk Wiersum was assassinated in front of his Amsterdam home in September 2019. B.'s new lawyers were also found on a hit-list.
The suspects will be brought to court in armored vehicles, according to the news wire. The judges and public prosecutors were also taken to court by special transport.
According to the police, a kickboxing teacher in IJsselstein has recruited people for intimidation in Breda. That writes De Telegraaf. It concerns Revi V. (34) who was also involved in youth work. He is now in police custody. The Breda intimidations and shelling were aimed at a man in Breda who was said to belong to Roger “Piet Costa†P.'s group.
De Telegraaf writes that V. was arrested in the investigation into an attempt to extort a man and a woman. They were relatives of the intended target.
Since mid-October there have been four incidents in Breda, all aimed at a man who, according to Crimesite sources, would be called “Petje†(39). Revi V. would be seen by the police as someone who recruits young people for jobs of violence. Four people have been arrested. At least one of them, Brian Z., was a student of Revi V., writes De Telegraaf.
The police are investigating a conflict between Piet Costa and a former confidant of his Ali D., who is said to be staying in Dubai. Clues recently surfaced that Piet Costa's group allegedly tried to have Ali D. arrested in Dubai last year.
There's not a lot of information about who "Piet Costa" actually is. He's a Dutch guy from Rotterdam, right?
Yes Roger is of Dutch origin I think his last name is Pieters or Pieterse that's why they call him Piet not sure though. Costa comes from his strong connections to Costa Rica.
I thought all the native Dutch drug traffickers in the Rotterdam area operated from Schiedam these days haha
Yeah. Rotterdam is a working class city many tough 'volksbuurten' (people's neighborhoods) back in the days like Crooswijk, Rotterdam-South, Oude Noorden and Chinatown. A lot of dockworkers lol. But most dutch have now moved to the suburbs or towns like Schiedam.
According to "insiders" she was ripping off Dutch traveller groups from Brabant as well as Moroccan groups. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It's rumored that in the underworld there are pictures circulating of her maimed and dismembered remains. Don't know if that's really true though...could be that it's another urban myth that the journalists use to make this story seem a bit more sensationalist.
They have been quit about the search in Antwerp so far, but the latest theory is her nephew stole a major batch of cocaine and she was held responsible it also appears she was very close to Piet Costa even lovers for a while I think.
Her disappearance, the torture chambers, several assassinations in the Rotterdam area, violence in Breda, corruption and seizures in the ports it's all connected some how.
This week, the national public prosecutor's office of the Public Prosecution has demanded prison sentences of between 6 and 12 years against five suspects before the Overijssel court. One of the men sees the Public Prosecution Service as a pivotal figure in the international heroin trade. He is suspected of being involved in a series of shipments that have been arrested in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy, among others. The suspects were arrested in March 2020, but the investigation had been running since 2018. In the summer and autumn of 2018, the name of an Eindhoven suspect (45) surfaced several times in police reports. He was specifically mentioned as (co-) financier and responsible for logistics for heroin transports in the port of Antwerp (954 and 1259 kilos). His name was also mentioned when 268 kilos of heroin was caught in the port of Genoa. The Italian authorities had returned two kilos of heroin to the container, which was then packed in a warehouse in Roosendaal. The OM demanded 12 years against the 45-year-old main suspect from Eindhoven. The Public Prosecution sees him as the 'pivot, organizer and intellectual perpetrator', the crucial player in the heroin market. He used his car as an office. After wiretapping equipment was placed in it by the police, a good view was gained of his role and the role of his co-suspects. The Public Prosecution sees the Eindhoven citizen as a kind of 'oil man': he has 'pawns' in crucial places at home and abroad, which ensure that the heroin is placed between regular deck cargo. All kinds of practical matters were also arranged for him. He himself arranged (fictitious) companies and sheds and transported them to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands he was then actively involved in the further distribution of heroin to other places in the Netherlands and Germany.
Dubai police arrest wanted criminal Tommy van der S. John van den Heuvel and Mick van Wely 1 hour ago
Despite the absence of an extradition treaty, he will probably be deported to the Netherlands, if his identity has been definitively confirmed, because Van der S. traveled with a false Irish passport.
Van der S. has been on the national investigation list for quite some time and was also wanted by Interpol. Police and OM want him behind bars because he has to serve a nine-year sentence for drug trafficking, money laundering and assault.
Southern Spain
For a long time, the police suspected that Van der S. was hiding in southern Spain, but he seems to have lived in Dubai recently. There he was arrested by the police at the airport. It turned out that he was in possession of false identity papers, namely a false Irish passport. An Englishman who was with him has also been arrested. It would be a certain Mandy.
A spokesman for the national prosecutor's office said on Thursday afternoon that he was not yet aware of the arrest. However, other sources confirm the arrest. A liaison officer of the Dutch police in Dubai is conducting an investigation on the spot and is in contact with the judicial authorities in the United Arab Emirates.
Ridouan Taghi
Dubai has been hunting more fanatically for internationally wanted criminals who are hiding there for a year and a half. Ridouan Taghi was able to live in luxury for a longer period of time, until Morocco, the Netherlands and the US urged the authorities to have his arrest.
Mafia head Rafaelle Imperiale, who is wanted by Italy, has lived in Dubai for years and Roger Lips, who was wanted for bankruptcy fraud, has also been hiding there for years.
Hmm the Dutch secret service did play a big role in the arrest of Taghi in Dubai should be interesting during the trial who knows what they did to get him.
Increase in Dutch drug labs across the Belgian and German borders May 7, 2021
The Belgian and German police are increasingly seeing Dutch drug labs in the border area. Due to the lack of cooperation between the police forces on both sides of the border, drug criminals reduce their chances of being caught. This has emerged from research by KRO-NCRV's Pointer platform.
In Belgium, a total of 28 drug labs were dismantled in 2020, a third more than in 2019. The majority has a link with Dutch drug criminals, says Marc Vancoillie, commissioner at the Belgian federal police.
In the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, close to the Dutch border, three drug labs have been dismantled in recent years. An analysis of the raw materials found there, trace research and Dutch vehicles found there shows that the perpetrators come from the Netherlands. Germany also sees mainly Dutch involvement in drug dumping in nature.
According to Vancoillie, Dutch drug criminals are more often moving to Germany and Belgium to stay under the radar. 'They are not known in Belgium, here they can just walk down the street. Conversely, we cannot just get into the car and take actions in the Netherlands.'
Experts point out that police forces' cooperation between the three countries is not going smoothly. German police commissioner Andreas Heisig argues for better cooperation: 'Differences in the legal system time and again lead to difficulties with communication, because the German police makes requests for information while the Dutch police classifies such a case as unimportant. And the suspects know that. '
In January 2019, three people in their twenties from Brabant were found dead in a drug lab in Hechtel-Eksel (photo), just across the Dutch-Belgian border. They perished from the toxic fumes. Police arrested two men a few months later on suspicion of involvement in the lab.
Woman dies after gunmen open fire on car in Amsterdam Crime May 17, 2021 Photo: Depositphotos.com A woman has died in hospital after her car was hit by a hail of gunfire in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district. The woman’s car was attacked by two men with automatic weapons as she drove down Maassluisstraat at around 7.40pm on Sunday, police said. The 27-year-old victim drove on to a hospital after the incident but died later in the evening from her injuries, AT5 reported. Her passenger was unhurt. Dozens of spent shells were recovered from the street, while the windows of two flats were damaged by bullets. Camera footage taken by local residents shows the gunmen fleeing in a silver-grey car driven by a third person. A 20-year-old man was arrested soon afterwards in connection with the incident, but police would not say what his involvement was. A Volkswagen Caddy van was found burned out in the nearby August Vermeylenstraat later on Sunday. Police have not confirmed whether it was used in the shooting.
Media is reporting the hit is retaliation after the liquidation of henchman Piet Costa. The intended target of the attack would be a brother-in-law of Dutch-Iranian Ali D. According to De Telegraaf, this Ali D. is seen as one of the greatest cocaine bosses in the Netherlands. In the drug world he is described as “the new Ridouan Taghiâ€.
The victim Ayla Mintjes 'often fell for bad boys'. Her boyfriend Anis B. was the suspected target of the attack. He came into contact with the law from an early age. Mintjes worked in a tanning salon in Diemen. In addition, the stylist was busy setting up her own company, specialized in eyebrow care.
Amsterdam criminal Etou's Belserang, former leader of motorcycle club Satudarah, has died of a heart attack. You can read this on the Instagram page of the Amsterdam rap veteran Sugacane.
Belserang (46) had a long criminal career that started way back in the late 1980s. Raised in South Amsterdam, the young Etou soon came into contact with Gwenette Martha (liquidated in the spring of 2014). Initially, the group around Martha is involved in theft, but later they switch to armed robbery and drug trafficking.
He survived several attempts on his life.
Etou's brother Boneka was said to be involved in multiple liquidations. Boneka, together with the criminal Yassin Chakor, was shot dead in February 2009 at a pancake house along the A4 near Leiderdorp.
In March Etou's drove with his motorcycle in front at the funeral of the liquidated Martin van de Pol (alias Polletje).
State witness Nabil B. has opted out of his agreement with the Public Prosecution Service (OM) and no longer wants to testify in the Marengo trial for the time being, his lawyer said. According to B., the Justice Department did not comply with previous agreements regarding the safety of him and his family while pursuing their case against 17 people suspected of multiple assassinations, attempted assassinations, and assassination plots, Nu.nl reported.
The Marengo process is a trial of key organized crime members, including Ridouan Taghi who was sought for years by Dutch authorities. He was finally arrested in Dubai at the end of 2019.
‘Rico de Chilean’ gets 11 years for liquidations 8 hours ago
Richard R., 47, aka ‘Rico de Chilean’, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The judge has determined this in the extra-secure court at Schiphol.
R. was found guilty of leading a criminal organization that committed liquidations and was involved in money laundering. According to the judge, he led that organization together with Ridouan Taghi, among others.
Evidence for this came mainly from intercepted encrypted crypto messages between members of the organization. According to the judge, those reports give a “disappointing and abhorrent†picture of the way in which the criminal group thought it could use life and death, with revenge or money as the motive.
The Public Prosecution Service had demanded fourteen years in prison against the Chilean Amsterdammer.
The sentence was lower because according to the judge it has not been proven that R. was part of a gang that traded in cocaine. He was also acquitted of gun possession. In addition, the judge deducted a year from the sentence because of the length of the trial.
Richard R. has already served a long prison sentence in Germany for drug trafficking, NH Nieuws reports. In 2017, he was arrested and extradited in Chile at the request of the Netherlands. Since then he has been in the Extra Secure Institution in Vught.
I follow the Marengo trial on Twitter. According to the OM, Rico the Chilean forged "filthy and intimate ties" with other criminals, such as Ridouan Taghi. The prosecutors called Rico and Taghi "the Brangelina of the underworld."LOL
Escaped criminal Gerel P., suspected of ties to Taghi, arrested in Brazil
The Brazilian police have arrested the fugitive Dutch criminal Gerel P., the Dutch Public Prosecution Service confirms. P. was arrested in an apartment in Barra da Tijuca, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Further details about his arrest are not yet known.
38-year-old P. was convicted in absentia in the Netherlands for two murder attempts after he managed to escape from a Surinamese cell in 2017. He is also associated with the circle around Ridouan Taghi.
At the end of 2016, P. shot two men from Rotterdam without provocation near a meadow in Noordeloos, near Gorinchem. They were seriously injured, but survived the assassination attempt.
A few months later, P. was arrested in Suriname by an arrest team. After 11 days in pre-trial detention, he escaped from prison with the help of a firearm. Then he disappeared without a trace.
The Public Prosecution Service is going to ask for the extradition of P. This could take several months, depending on his willingness to cooperate in his return to the Netherlands.
Police and justice fear a very violent liberation attempt to get Ridouan Taghi from the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. Even before his arrest in Dubai in 2019, Taghi is said to have already made plans and paid money to be released from prison.
This is apparent from information from a decision of the appeals committee of the Council for the Application of Criminal Law and Youth Protection (RSJ) this spring, which De Telegraaf reported on for the first time. Taghi's lawyers appealed against the decision to extend Taghi's imprisonment once again in the Vught institution.
A cousin of Taghi is said to be looking for people to carry out the outbreak, according to information from the Criminal Intelligence Team. "We would be looking for a mediator who will receive several tens of millions of euros for this," the ruling reads. There would also be a command group, possibly from the Balkans, with heavy weapons at its disposal.
Kidnapping Dutch diplomat According to De Telegraaf, Taghi would also have ordered an investigation into whether a Dutch diplomat could be kidnapped in Africa to serve as change for his release. This plan is seen as realistic by the investigative services and taken very seriously.
His lawyer Inez Weski says in a response to the newspaper that the information on which the RSJ relies "probably outdated rumours. To date, there has been no evidence of an escape attempt."
Social risk A threat report has also been drawn up in the RSJ's ruling. Based on information from the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI), it then became clear that a very violent escape attempt might be made.
Partly for this reason, the appeals committee rejected the lawyers' appeal. Taghi, the ruling states, "is an unacceptable social risk in the event of escaping".
The EBI in Vught where Taghi is now held is a kind of prison within a prison. It is so heavily guarded that no one has ever escaped:
The 31-year-old alleged Amsterdam hitman Jeffrey S., who was recently arrested in Spain, was celebrating his birthday at that time in a pub in Torremolinos. This is reported by the Spanish police. S. is a friend of the Amsterdam criminal Omar Lkhorf, who was sentenced to life in prison. Both are considered part of the group of Houssine Ait S., leader of the Mocro mafia. He was on the run from the Dutch authorities, where he is suspected of involvement in several liquidations that took place there. The Dutch police tipped the Guardia Civil in June that S. might be in Mijas, after which the investigation continued.
Jeffrey S. was arrested in Spain in 2018 together with a Norwegian and two other Dutch suspects for the liquidation of a Colombian, in August 2016 in Mijas (southern Spain). His co-defendants were the Amsterdam criminal Hicham M., who has since been sentenced to life in prison, and Mitchell Jansen, who was liquidated in Colombia at the end of 2016. The Colombian died on the spot, his girlfriend was seriously injured in the assassination attempt. A total of 12 shots were fired at the couple. S. was detained in Spain for two years as a suspect, but was released after the trial was postponed. He had not returned to court since then and remained a fugitive.
According to the Spanish police, the four suspects belonged to a group of hitmen. The Dutch authorities state that Jeffrey S. was the facilitator of several murders in the Netherlands and was in direct contact with the gunmen by providing them with information and weapons.
S. is also associated with the liquidation of a Frenchman in his sixties near Marbella at the end of 2019. S. is said to have worn a mask of The Joker and shot the Frenchman with five bullets..
A 37-year-old man from Capelle aan den IJssel who was shot Friday evening while walking his dog, has succumbed to his injuries. The victim was shot on late Friday evening on the Valerius roundabout in his hometown. Medical help was to no avail. He died in hospital, police said.
The man was hit several times. Witnesses called the police, who found him seriously injured on the street.
Almost at the same time, a car was on fire on the Burgemeester van Beresteijnlaan. Police are investigating whether the two cases are related.
On Monday, August 30, the District Court of the Central Netherlands in the heavily secured Bunker in Amsterdam-Osdorp will start with the substantive treatment of the extensive Eris trial about liquidations and liquidation attempts in the underworld. A total of 64 hearing days are planned for the substantive treatment, including extension days. The court is expected to rule in July 2022.
Criminal trial Eris mainly revolves around a group of suspects who, according to the judiciary, had a (management) role at motorcycle club Caloh Wagoh. The Public Prosecution Service suspects a total of 21 suspects, including crown witness Tony de G., of, among other things, five liquidations and multiple attempts and orders to do so.
Prime suspects in the trial are alleged "murder broker" and Caloh Wagoh president Delano "Keylow" R. (50) and his alleged "counselor" Greg R. (72). According to justice, Delano R. would have had liquidations carried out on behalf of Ridouan Taghi.
NO fewer than 22 weapons were found on Tuesday in a house in Spijkenisse near Rotterdam, including some automatic firearms. Ammunition was also found. A 36-year-old man from Spijkenisse was arrested during the raid. Police do not yet know what the man was up to with the weapons.
An amount of EUR 4800 was also seized. The police found the man after a tip from abroad. The suspect will be arraigned Friday.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 - 13:20 Taghi ordered motorcycle gang to kill 50 people, key witness says According to Tony de G., key witness in the extensive assassination trial around motorcycle club Caloh Wagoh, there were about fifty names on a list of assassinations that had to be carried out. So there was "enough work for a whole period", main suspect Delano R. allegedly told the key witness. All but one of the names on that hit list is said to have come from alleged top criminal Ridouan Taghi.
The key witness spoke about this on Wednesday, the third day of the substantive treatment of the trial, called Eris, in the extra-security court in Amsterdam-Oosdorp. Eris revolves around multiple assassinations and attempts thereto. The Public Prosecution Service thinks Delano R. acted as a kind of "murder broker". He is said to have accepted assassination orders and then distributed them within the motorcycle club.
The lawyers of various suspects have serious doubts about the statements of the key witness and their reliability. In his own words, De G. "played with his cards completely open" in his statements and "spared no one".
De G. turned witness after he was arrested in Spain for the murder of Jair Wessels, who was shot dead in Breukelen in July 2017.
The crown witness Tony de G. is a traveller it's very rare travellers cooperating with the Justice Department, they live by a code of silence. He's even going to testify against his own father and best friend.
The traveller Martien Reuvers aka Godfather of OSS was sentenced to 16 years for leading a criminal organization dedicated to drugs- and arms trafficking and thefts. Thirteen of his family members were also sentenced.
Europol: The Netherlands and Belgium are the epicenter of the European cocaine market September 8, 2021 The Netherlands and Belgium have supplanted Spain as the epicenter for cocaine imports into Europe. This is apparent from a new report by Europol and the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) on the cocaine market in Europe. Criminal organizations often use the major ports in Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg, whereby 'the role of the Netherlands as a transit zone is consolidated'.
Dutch suspects The report called Cocaine Insights 1 reports that the epicenter of the European cocaine market has shifted northward. Between the beginning of 2018 and the end of 2020, almost sixty percent of the suspects arrested for batches of cocaine of 100 kilos and more had Dutch nationality. It concerned a total of 51 Dutch suspects.
Albanians were the largest group with 266 arrested suspects. Sixty percent of these were mainly involved in the trade in smaller batches of cocaine from 10 grams to one kilo. Of the 144 Moroccans arrested, 75 percent were involved in these smaller parties.
65.6 tons of coke Europol reports that in 2020 a total of 65.6 tons of cocaine was seized in Antwerp. The drugs mainly came from Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. The most cocaine was shipped to Belgium, followed by Spain and the Netherlands. Most of the cocaine that reaches Antwerp is probably intended for organizations operating from the Netherlands, from where the cocaine is further distributed to other European countries.
Belgium previously reported that groups of Moroccan and Albanian ethnicity involved in cocaine trafficking in the port of Antwerp have expanded their role in cocaine purchasing and building contacts in South America.
Utrecht will work with ex-criminals to prevent young people from entering the drug environment. This is part of an integrated plan to fight drug crime in the city. From the police, the Public Prosecution Service, the Probation Service to Rabobank and housing associations are participating in this effort.
Utrecht is a hub in the international drug trade. About fifty criminal networks are active in the city and 150 in the region. "Utrecht proposes a reinforced approach to counteract further disruptive efforts of drug crime," said mayor Sharon Dijksma in a letter to the city council on Thursday.
In addition to the prevention of crime, an important element of the approach is aimed at young people who already have one foot in crime and who are at risk of further growth. Utrecht wants to try to keep them on the right track. The municipality will do this by using credible messengers. They are people who got out of crime themselves. They have the authority to help young people make different choices in order to stop the "breeding ground for criminal organizations"
Accomplice Taghi arrested on Curaçao Last weekend, the police arrested an important contact of Ridouan Taghi in Curaçao. It concerns 49-year-old Gregory 'Greg' F. Crime Editorial Panorama Sep 22. 2021 | 15:04
Gregory F., who according to De Telegraaf lived alternately in the Netherlands and Suriname, is suspected of international drug trafficking. He would have had close contact with Ridouan Taghi and other suspects in the Marengo liquidation process. During that process, several messages between the suspects and F. were made public, for example about a large arms find in Nieuwegein. When this came to light in 2015, Taghi confirmed to F. that it could be read in the news, according to justice. "Yes it says everywhere sir. Biggest weapon find ever, luckily not all."
Gregory F. was also kept informed of the murder of spyshopman Ronald Bakker. The messages Taghi sent about this have also been added to Marengo's file. Earlier this year, another key contact of Taghi, 37-year-old Gerel Palm, was arrested in connection with that murder. He was in Suriname until 2017, just like Gregory F., where he was already arrested in March of that year. He managed to escape shortly afterwards, but ran into the lamp in Brazil.
AD writes that in 2010 F. was less involved in the research 'Carnelian'. This concerned the murder of 12-year-old Danny Gubbels, who died when shots were fired at his parents' caravan. Gubbels' father is said to have been involved in a conflict about a batch of lost cocaine.
F. may have also played a small role at Danny M's company, Ennetcom. He previously supplied "unhackable" Blackberries. M. was recently sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for leading a criminal organization, money laundering and forgery.
Six arrested in Breda in major investigation into drugs labs CrimeSociety September 28, 2021 Police cars outside the trailer park. Photo: Politie.nl Police have arrested six people after a raid on a trailer park in Breda in connection with a major investigation into drugs-related crime. Several homes and business premises were also searched in the raids, which involved 250 police officers and other officials. Police say they suspect the gang of setting up at least one drugs lab. The five men and one woman arrested were aged between 28 and 60. ‘The homes and business premises were searched not only for evidence but also for valuables bought with the criminal cash,’ police said in a statement. The investigation into the gang started last year and in February, the probe led to four people being arrested at a methamphetamine lab in Zeeland. Three of them were Colombian nationals. Last year, Dutch police closed down 32 meth labs, more than three times the 2019 total.
Arrests in investigation into millions of trading in steroids October 9, 2021
The FIOD (financial police) says it has arrested four people on Tuesday in an investigation into the production and trade in illegal medicines and drugs, including anabolic steroids. This happened in the municipalities of Hoeksche Waard, Alphen aan den Rijn and Pijnacker-Nootdorp. Two women, aged 37 and 32, have been identified as suspects but have not been arrested.
The men, aged 50, 50, 40 and 37 respectively, are suspected of illegally producing and trading drugs, including anabolic steroids, in association. According to the investigation, the suspects would have made millions from this trade.
In circles of certain gyms and in the criminal environment, many steroids and growth hormones are used by men who want to get 'bigger'. Use without medical supervision may involve risks. Many of the drugs in which the suspects allegedly traded contain active substances that are on list I or II of the Opium Act.
The group is also suspected of money laundering. The suspects were brought before the examining magistrate on Friday, who has decided to detain them longer. The FIOD thinks that even more people will be arrested.
A lot of shootings all over Holland the last weeks, a guy was shot and injured driving a yellow Lamborghini. The police arrested criminal Gordon F. in Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon, in connection with the shooting incident in Lijnden on Sunday night. Gordon., who was heavily addicted to cocaine at the time, shot his drug dealer dead in 2001 after he was insulted by him. He was 21 at the time. He was jailed for seven years for this. Among his friends are people from the criminal environment. F. would also have acted as a front for drug lord Samir 'Scarface' Bouyakhrichan, who was shot dead in Spain in 2014, by having put real estate to his name. F. was subsequently warned by the police that he had been put on a death list .
For example, the Kroonenberg real estate family got involved in the feud of ‘black sheep’ Gordon F. | Inland christophercloutier 1 day ago
The pivot in the conflict in which the Amsterdam real estate giant Kroonenberg Groep has found itself is Gordon F., the black sheep of the Kroonenberg family. He was arrested on Tuesday in the Cornelis Schuytstraat in Amsterdam South because of a nighttime shooting in his villa in Lijnden (see box).
As the grandson of ‘Uncle Jaap’ Kroonenberg, Gordon F. inherited a fortune from what is now an Amsterdam billion-dollar company, in which he himself does not play an active role. As a drug addict in his twenties, he ended up in jail for a long time for shooting his drug dealer in De Pijp. He has been in the coterie of serious criminals all his adult life. In the meantime, he would threaten his ex Natascha for more than two years, with whom he had been together for fourteen years and has two teenage daughters, and her boyfriend Souhail el M. That friend is a descendant of a family with a formidable reputation in the Utrecht criminal environment.
Colombian President Iván Duque is now known to have signed the extradition order for Said Razzouki two weeks ago. This clears the way for the actual extradition of the Moroccan-Dutchman, who is considered the most important accomplice of Ridouan Taghi. According to the news site El Colombiano, it would be a matter of days before Razzouki arrives in the Netherlands.
Earlier in the summer, the Colombian Supreme Court had already approved the extradition. However, that decision was challenged by Razzouki's lawyers in Colombia. However, according to the Colombian Ministry of Justice and the legal department of President Duque's office, the extradition request meets all legal requirements.
In March 2018, the judiciary announced that it was looking for Saïd Razzouki. A prize of 100,000 euros was also placed on his head. It took two years before the wanted criminal was arrested in Medellín, Colombia. The arrest was preceded by a lengthy undercover operation. Four Colombian undercover agents stayed in two safehouses for months to determine Razzouki's location. During his arrest, the wanted criminal was injured by jumping out the window.
The search for Razzouki was reportedly funded by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Multiple arrests in major police action against drug gang in Brabant The gang is said to be operating drug labs and are also active in Belgium and Germany. The six arrested suspects are between 20 and 34 years old. They are suspected of producing and trafficking synthetic drugs and participating in a criminal organization. Main suspect Stefan P., a descendant of the well-known and infamous Roma family P.', was lifted from his bed there this morning at 05:00 am by an arrest team. Since May 2020, the police have been investigating the gang, which is alleged to be involved in large-scale production of synthetic drugs. The research team was provided with a large number of chat messages from EncroChat, Sky-ECC and Anom, which showed that several involved were operating multiple drug labs in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Labs have already been dismantled in recent months in Tegelen, Ruppach (Germany), Kassel (Germany) and Lanaken (Belgium).
'Cabinet is considering deploying soldiers in Marengo trial'
In order to be able to bolster the security measures surrounding the Marengo criminal trial, the cabinet is in talks with the Public Prosecution Service, the judiciary, the police and the mayors involved about the deployment of military personnel. Sources report this to the NOS . The Marengo trial against the main suspect Ridouan Taghi and sixteen co-defendants is one of several high-security criminal processes that place a heavy burden on the deployment of the police. Hundreds of agents are needed for a Marengo session alone.
The government is very concerned about this heavy extra task for the police, which will most likely continue or even expand in the coming years. This concerns guarding the courthouses, the transport of suspects to and from the prisons and personal protection of lawyers, judges, public prosecutors and witnesses. The armed forces, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, are already deployed for various tasks related to criminal processes.
Taghi much more closely guarded in EBI by anonymous guards with balaclavas Updated Today, 08:29 Today, 08:05 in INTERIOR
AMSTERDAM - Unprecedented strict security measures have been taken against Ridouan Taghi in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. The drug lord is now guarded by a special team of unrecognizable guards in balaclavas.
EenVandaag reports about this. This rock-hard prison regime came into effect at the beginning of October, immediately after the arrest of his lawyer and cousin Youssef Taghi, who is suspected of plotting a violent outbreak. Since then, Taghi has been increasingly isolated in prison.
"The current detention conditions that Taghi is confronted with are unique for the Netherlands," says his detention lawyer Thomas van der Horst. The guards wear a different uniform than the regular prison staff. Internal glass walls in the EBI have been taped, so that the main suspect in the liquidation process Marengo cannot see who is in the room.
The complaints of Utrecht resident Robin van O., who is a main suspect in the case of the torture containers and also a suspect in large-scale cocaine trafficking, have been 'not estimated correctly' by doctors in the penitentiary institutions of Zutphen and Leeuwarden. This is stated in an independent medical report on the development of his disease. According to that report, Van O. is no longer suitable for detention. On Tuesday it was announced that Van O. is terminally ill. He turns out to have a form of skin cancer that has spread in many places, including in the breast and lymph nodes. There is a threat of a spinal cord injury. His chest needs to be drained.
The report states the advice to let Van O. go home, insofar as home treatment is at least still possible. Van O. has since been admitted to the penitentiary hospital in Scheveningen.
Brabant 'ecstasy king' Peerke S. arrested The police arrested one of the most important leaders of the Brabant underworld on Tuesday. It concerns Peter 'Peerke' S. (59). He was considered by the police and the judiciary as one of the world's largest ecstasy producers and testified in the Passage liquidation process.
S. from Eindhoven was arrested along with seven other people. There have been raids on 14 buildings in Eindhoven, Valkenswaard, Bladel and Waalre, among others. The men are said to have been involved in the large-scale production of synthetic drugs. This is an investigation by the National Police.
'Peerke' was sentenced in 2003 to 13 years for worldwide ecstasy trafficking. According to the Public Prosecution Service S. was seen as the or one of the greatest ecstasy barons in the world.
The Brabant leader had only just been released in 2010 when his home in Eindhoven came under heavy fire with machine guns. A significant part of the more than a hundred bullets fired pierced S.'s home and adjacent buildings.
A major underworld war raged in Brabant in which people were killed, houses were fired upon and hand grenades were thrown. The shooting dominated the news for days at the time and caused mayors to sound the alarm in The Hague to do something against the drug industry and violence.
The 67-year-old Dutch construction contractor Hendrik P. was arrested on Thursday evening in his hometown of Maaseik in an investigation into large-scale drug and cigarette trade. In the same investigation by the Belgian and Dutch police, thirteen suspects were arrested in Belgium on Wednesday morning. In the Netherlands, eight suspects were arrested in fifteen raids. A total of 29 house searches were carried out, fourteen of which were in Belgium. Police and justice see Hendrik P. as the key figure in the drug trade and the illegal production of cigarettes. He is suspected of participating in a criminal organization that focused on cigarette production, cannabis cultivation and two drug labs. In Maasmechelen, 'Lieutenant' Nico B. of the Aquino clan was arrested. He was released in June 2019 with an ankle bracelet after serving seven years in prison for international cocaine shipments. The criminal organization around the Aquino brothers, a Calabrian family from Maasmechelen, is said to have imported at least 2.4 tons of cocaine from South America during at least fifteen years. The two brothers Raf Aquino and Mario Aquino were sentenced to ten and seven years in prison before the Antwerp Court of Appeal in 2017.
Ridouan Taghi was required by the court to come today. Taghi also informed the court that he did not want to say anything:
"Unfortunately I can't say anything about it. I'd rather die or spend life in isolation than ever calling anyone's name or exonerating anyone."
During the trial they also heard Saïd Razzouki, one of the main suspects, was extradited from Colombia to the Netherlands on Monday. For safety reasons, he was flown to the Netherlands on a chartered plane accompanied by the Dutch police in the night from Monday to Tuesday.
After arriving in the Netherlands, the police transferred Razzouki to the Extra Secure Institution in Vught.
In the investigation into the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum, a cousin of Ridouan Taghi, who was arrested in Morocco, is also in the picture of the police and the judiciary. Jaouad F. (27) from Nieuwegein was arrested in October because he is suspected of involvement in the mistaken murder of the son of a Moroccan judge in Marrakech (2017).
According to the judiciary, Jaouad F. communicated frequently with Anouar Taghi and a few others about preparations for the murder of Wiersum. Website NU.nl writes that this became apparent on Friday during an interim session in the case against Anouar Taghi (another cousin of Ridouan Taghi) and some co-defendants in the Amsterdam court. The Public Prosecution Service suspects Anouar Taghi and co-suspects of involvement in the preparation of the murder and participation in a criminal organization.
On Thursday, the court in Breda sentenced six men to 4 years in prison for involvement in a crystal meth lab in the Zeeland town of Westdorpe. A 55-year-old Dutchman will receive 4.5 years in prison, three Dominicans (31, 54 and 57) and two Mexicans (40 and 49) will receive four years in prison. The Dutchman's sentence is higher because 1,080 grams of amphetamine were found in his home.
The six men – who had previously been jailed for five years – deny their involvement. They stated that they worked in the lab as a handyman, cleaner and welder. The court does not believe this.
Crystal meth is also new for European market. The trade and production of the highly addictive drugs, known from the TV series Breaking Bad, is on the rise in the Netherlands. It seems that Mexican cartels and Dutch pill farmers have joined forces. It is therefore a lucrative business. You pay between 50 and 100 euros for a gram of crystal meth. At fifteen kilos, the street value is already above a million euros.
The Dutchman Herman X. has been sentenced by the court in Koblenz to five years and nine months in prison for participating in a criminal organization. In an old five-storey NATO bunker below the village of Traben-Trarbach, the Dutchman operated servers with which numerous criminal activities were carried out. For example, the servers hosted websites of marketplaces on the dark web where weapons and drugs were sold. Also, the bunker was home to spam servers and cyber attacks.
X.'s 35-year-old son has also been sentenced to four years and three months in prison. Two other Dutch citizens, and four others, received reduced prison sentences for their contribution to the hosting center. X. had taken over the bunker in Traben-Trarbach from the German state.
In September 2019 , 650 German officials pulled the plug on the bunker and arrested a series of suspects.
Herman Xennt is a close associate of notorious Irish boss George 'the Penguin' Mitchell.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021 - 13:20 Five arrested in €150 million cocaine bust The police arrested five men last week in an ongoing drug trafficking investigation. Officers also seized 2,000 kilograms of cocaine, worth 150 million euros.
The suspects are three men from The Hague aged 31, 34, and 39, a 47-year-old man from Turkey, and a 21-year-old from Morocco. The police arrested them in a warehouse in Voorschoten, where the drugs were also found. The cocaine was destroyed.
The five men were arranged and remanded into custody. They are in restricted custody, which means they are only allowed contact with their lawyers.
'Piet S. made statements about his role in the underworld' December 18, 2021
'Piet S. made statements about his role in the underworld' The Hague drug lord Piet S. recently made a series of statements to detectives in the Taxus investigation, in which he and others are suspected of large-scale drug transport. According to De Telegraaf, he said that he mediated in the conflict between the groups of Gwenette Martha and Houssine A., which led, among other things, to the double murder in the Amsterdam Staatsliedenbuurt.
Referee S. describes himself as a sort of underworld arbiter who mediated conflicts. Piet S.: 'war is not money.'
It was recently announced that Piet S. and drug trafficker Stanley “Kai” Esser , who died last year, had been asked to mediate in the conflict surrounding the De Groot fruit company in Hedel.
Piet S. broke the silence at the Rotterdam headquarters but did not mention any names. He says he testified because he was forced to do so because of allegations that he would lead a global drug network. S. denies those allegations.
“Mocro War” S. says he mediated for years in the “Mocro War” with three others and has “contributed to a solution.” S. says that he regularly used listening devices to check whether stories were correct. He also mediated a dispute over the amount of crystal meth that could be extracted from chemicals. Through contacts in Mexico he was able to get the correct information about this.
According to S., there was a pot in which crime groups put money. S. and his fellow mediators were paid from that pot
Piet S.: 'One of the reasons was also that they ended up with us, that we no longer import anything ourselves. We had no interest in doing things.' S. says that his decades of experience allowed him to check exactly whether stories were correct and that he understood 'business processes' and problems well.
The godfather from The Hague also told how he bought up companies in South America and then started a legal flow of goods with those companies. These companies were then subjected to various checks in which nothing was found. Then he sold those companies.
S. confesses in the past – in the eighties – to have dealt in drugs, especially in hash. He has also been convicted for this.
Man shot dead in Amstelveen is known criminal Itzhak Meiri, was on the death list
The 56-year-old Almeerder who was shot dead in Amstelveen this morning is Itzhak Meiri, a well-known person in the Amsterdam criminal environment. In 2008 he was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for extorting Amsterdam businessmen and had been on a death list for years, Het Parool reports .
Itzhak Meiri (December 16, 1965), from Israel, has been "chief financial officer" of the Sea of ??Love Cosmetics firm since early 2014, in perfumes and make-up – mainly "dead sea products", as he put it himself. .
checkered fifties Amsterdam businessmen and criminals knew the checkered fifties as a strong arm and blackmailer.
The detectives warned him several times in recent years that he was about to be liquidated. As far as we know, this happened last summer.
Two suspects who were accused by the judiciary of preparing the murder of the Turkish-Dutch drug trafficker Ahmet G., according to the judiciary, had also previously planned to kill Itzhak Meiri. (Ahmet G. had escaped death in 2019 when he and his 17-year-old daughter were shot at their then home in Amstelveen.) An SD card found with the duo contained images of Meiri's house in Almere. A beacon was mounted under his car with which they appeared to be following Meiri.
The charge that the two had targeted Meiri as "spotters" (observers) was ultimately insufficient evidence, so they were not prosecuted for those murder plans.
Beachwear in court In 2006 Meiri, demonstrative in beachwear, ran away from the court in Dordrecht together with his lawyers at the time. He handled his multiple extortion case because the Amsterdam court was too busy. Meiri did not recognize the Dordrecht court, which led to the necessary consternation.
In his absence, the prosecutor at the time described him as "a professional" who "impressed himself on his victims for a long time and systematically, without compassion". It was about businessmen who seemed vulnerable. The prosecution then: "Meiri created, subtly or not, a particularly great fear and threat. He gorged himself and made use of the network and contacts of his victims. He was trying to make his way to the upper world.”
Witnesses said a man who was about 20 years of age pulled the trigger, killing the victim on Wednesday, police said. The gunman was described as being about 1.80 meters tall, wearing a dark shirt or jacket, jeans, and a black beanie hat. He was last seen near the Rembrandtweg area, not far from the crime scene.
Forensic investigators spent the afternoon collecting trace evidence, police said. Witnesses told reporters that a mobile phone was found on the ground near a BMW 750LD parked at the crime scene.
The police arrested two Amsterdammers, aged 21 and 22, on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in the shooting in Amstelveen, in which 56-year-old Itzhak Meiri from Almere was killed on Wednesday. The detective team tracked down the two suspects, after which an arrest team arrested the duo in Amsterdam-East on Thursday around 4 p.m.
The 22-year-old man was released after questioning. He remains a suspect in the case, police said. The 21-year-old suspect was brought before the examining magistrate and placed in pre-trial detention for fourteen days. He is in limitations.
Journalist under threat led to A2 shutdown, tightened security A suspicious and threatening situation on the A2 near Amsterdam led to the highway's one-hour closure about 25 kilometers further south from 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. Dutch crime journalist John van den Heuvel, who has been under police protection for some time, was driving on the expressway when others appeared to chase him, an anonymous police source told newspaper AD
The suspect who was arrested on Thursday afternoon during a police action on the A2 due to a suspicious situation surrounding crime journalist John van den Heuvel is 36-year-old Mourad O. from Utrecht. That writes Het Parool. According to the Public Prosecution Service, he is suspected of preparing a serious crime. Nothing further has been said about the nature of that suspicion and that crime.
Mourad O. has a criminal record, but not for serious cases. He was called in the spring of 2021 as a witness in the Marengo trial against Ridouan Taghi and co-defendants. Het Parool reports that Mourad O. was previously convicted because of a possible rip deal from a cannabis nursery. In the past, he was in a car that was linked to a serious crime.
In the spring of 2021, O. was interrogated as a witness in the Marengo trial. He was summoned because suspect Mohamed el A. (of, among other things, the liquidation of Ranko Scekic in 2016) had made an extensive statement that he hoped Mourad O. would (partly) confirm. However, he invoked his 'non-disclosure' and remained silent.
Mourad O. knows several players in the periphery around Ridouan Taghi, but it is still unclear whether he played a prominent role in the criminal environment.
Fugitive 'tattookiller' Cor P. arrested in Dominican Republic after attempt on his life
The infamous 'tattookiller' Cor P. (38) was arrested in a hospital in the Dominican Republic on Thursday. Two days earlier, the Schiedammer had been seriously injured in an attempt to liquidate him. He had fled the Netherlands in January 2020 after being sentenced to life imprisonment for an underworld murder.
Two men on a scooter shot at Cor P. last Tuesday in his white all-terrain vehicle in the center of the Dominican tourist resort of Las Terrenas, where he has probably lived for some time. He tried to escape, but collided with another all-terrain vehicle during a short chase, after which his car ended up on the side. He climbed out of the car and ran into an alley, where the gunmen left him badly injured. According to local police, he was hit by three bullets.
A gun, several magazines, plenty of bullets and a wig were found in two safes in his apartment, as well as two false license plates, four forged passports and five counterfeit Costa Rican ID cards.
Police initially believed the victim was from Costa Rica, as one of P.'s fake IDs stated. When it turned out that it was Cor P., who had been spotted internationally, he was arrested in hospital on Thursday.
Cor P. was sentenced in 2014 to 12.5 years in prison with three co-defendants. He received that sentence for the attempt to liquidate the Amsterdam criminal Marlon D. with dozens of bullets in the Andries Vierlinghstraat in Amsterdam-Slotervaart, in August 2009. Justice sees him as one of the leaders of the so-called 'tattookillers', referring to the Chinese characters they have tattooed on their backs. P. is linked to more murders. His nickname is 'The Eel'. This is because he usually managed to escape punishment.
According to the detectives, Ridouan Taghi has been organizing an outbreak from March 2021. According to the NRC , this is apparent from documents from the criminal file against lawyer Youssef Taghi, which a reporter from the newspaper has seen. Youssef Taghi was arrested on October 8 last year. As a lawyer, he regularly visited his cousin in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught.
According to the police, there were plans for three violent liberation actions – codenamed Bios – at the EBI or at an extra-secure courtroom in Amsterdam-Osdorp where the Marengo case against Taghi is being heard. A third plan—codenamed Mega Mindy—was to take four EBI employees hostage. Taghi would then have to be released in exchange for their release. 'It has to be done in the Navy Seals way', Taghi would have informed Youssef, among other things.
69 photos of chats with various contacts from Ridouan Taghi's criminal organization were found on Youssef's iPad, the police said. It is not clear who exactly those contacts are.
The police arrested a 16-year-old Amsterdammer on Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the shooting of Itzhak Meiri (56) in Amstelveen on December 22. He is the third suspect in the case. A day after the shooting incident, the police already arrested two suspected Amsterdammers, aged 21 and 22.
How a Rotterdam criminal became an international drug lord Yesterday 16:05 4 minutes Born and raised Rotterdam resident Piet 'Costa' has long remained under the radar of the police and the judiciary. Last week he was sentenced to 17 years in prison. NRC reporter Jan Meeus examines in his new podcast how this previously unknown figure could become an international drug smuggler of stature within ten years. He tells about it at Speech Makers.
"He has been invisible for a long time," says crime reporter Meeus, who is doing research at home and abroad for the second season of the podcast series Cocaine Fever . "In 2018, his name was mentioned in the Telegraaf for the first time." According to Meeus, the rise of Costa is interesting because it keeps pace with the period in which the Netherlands became the hub in the cocaine trade worldwide.
The fifty-year-old Costa owes his name to the three years he spent in Costa Rica. He is suspected of extensive cocaine trade (including via pineapple plantations) and he is considered to be the client of the torture chambers that were found in Wouwse Plantage.
Colombian vacuum Previously, the Italian mafia clan 'Ndrangheta was mainly involved in drug smuggling from Latin America to Europe, says Meeus. When the peace process cut off contacts with the FARC and the Americans stopped burning cocaine plantations in Colombia, there was a power vacuum and an abundance of coke.
Dutch drug criminals such as Piet Costa have "surfed along on this wave", says Meeus, who explains this process in the podcast with the help of a journalist from the American research platform Insight Crime.
'Candy' According to Meeus, Piet Costa has been able to remain under the radar for a long time because he has not yet been associated with liquidations. "Pete was called a candy. If he was stolen, it didn't matter much to him." Until someone stole 100 million euros, Meeus says. "There the conflict has been eradicated, for which, according to the police and the judiciary, he built that torture container."
In Antwerp, the Public Prosecution Service has demanded seven years in prison against Maruf "Paja" M. (65) for his part in a heroin smuggling through the port of Antwerp. In the case, a group of port workers was demanded up to 12 years in prison for extracting mainly cocaine, including on the quay of International Car Operators (ICO) in the port of Antwerp, according to the Gazet van Antwerpen . The research is part of the research into the group around 'Godfather' Martien R. from Oss.
Paja is originally a Bosnian Dutchman who runs a restaurant in The Hague. He belonged to the inner circle of, among others, the (murdered) Amsterdam criminals Sam Klepper and John Mieremet, and also Willem Holleeder.
'Commando in mocro-mafia': elite soldier (42) suspected of drug and arms trafficking AMSTERDAM - An investigation into the criminal organization that according to justice is led by Ridouan Taghi has led to the arrest of one of the most renowned members of the Korps Commando Troops (KCT). The arrest is hard for the defense and police. There it is feared that the 42-year-old sergeant major from Rotterdam shared his extensive knowledge of special operations, weapons and tactics with criminals. Lawyers Michael Ruperti, Frezia Aarts and the Public Prosecution Service in Arnhem confirm the arrest of the non-commissioned officer. “On February 1, a Special Forces soldier was arrested. The man is suspected of preparing to import narcotics, embezzlement of military goods, involvement in the arms trade and illegal possession of weapons," said the judiciary. The Ministry of Defense is not responding pending the investigation. The commando arrested last week may have given weapons training to criminals abroad.
On Saturday evening, the police found 350 kilos of cocaine in a van that drove away from a shisha lounge on Dijklaan in Breda. Nineteen handguns were subsequently found during a raid on the catering facility. Two suspects, ages 38 and 44, have been arrested. Surveillance officers saw a van with two men pull away from the shisha lounge at 7:45 PM. The driver was given a stop sign but did not respond. The pursuit was then started through the center of Breda. Eventually the passage of the van was blocked, the driver tried to flee but surrendered quickly, according to police. While this 38-year-old man from Teteringen and his 44-year-old passenger without permanent residence or residence were taken to the police station, the van was examined. It turned out to contain 350 kilos of cocaine. An arrest team then raided the shisha lounge. Nineteen small arms were found inside. The investigation into the origin of the drugs and weapons is ongoing.
The police arrested nine suspects on Tuesday in a large-scale investigation into cocaine imports via the port of Rotterdam. The nine men are suspected of, among other things, importing cocaine, money laundering, non-official corruption and illegal possession of firearms. During the action day, thirteen homes and business premises in Rotterdam, Schiedam, Hoogvliet, Papendrecht and The Hague were searched.
The investigation by the Regional Investigation Service started in March 2021, after several reports were received by the police about the import of cocaine via the port of Rotterdam.Some of the information from the investigation came from cracked PGP messages, which, according to the police, were supplemented and reinforced with classic investigative work.
Which factions, or nationalities if it’s easier, would you rank at the top of Holland’s OC?
At top are still the so called "Dutch Networks" also known as Penoze.
Historical coincidence has it that the countries from which large numbers of people came to the Netherlands in the 1960s and 1970s developed into leading producers and transit traders of the main drug types for the European market in the 1980s and 1990s. By far the most heroin comes from Turkey, the Surinamese and Dutch Antilles as well as the Aruban connection connect Colombia with its cocaine trade to Europe, Morocco has developed into the most important producer of hash. In all these countries, large criminal drug groups have recently developed or the pre-existing underworld has shifted its focus to drug trafficking. They are as connected to the political and economic centers of power of their country as the transnational groups in Italy or Colombia.
All foreign or transnational crime groups that have been identified in the Netherlands are involved in the drug trade, but their function differs according to the position they occupy within the range of activities between production and consumption. These groups can be divided into three categories. There are groups whose headquarters are in the drug producing countries (Colombia and other South American countries). Then there are groups that have their headquarters in the countries where drugs are bought and consumed (Italy). Finally, there are groups led from countries where drugs are neither produced nor consumed, and which focus only on smuggling (China, Ghana, Nigeria). There are also transnational groups that also deal in drugs, but for whom this is not a main activity in the Netherlands (the Russian 'mafia' and the gangs of former Yugoslavs).
Which factions, or nationalities if it’s easier, would you rank at the top of Holland’s OC?
Like Hollander stated above, the Dutch organized crime networks ("penoze") are the traditional kind of organized crime in the Netherlands and are the most established. This mostly concerns high level Dutch criminals from working class towns surrounding big cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam (a lot of them live in Schiedam these days),...trailer parks/camp sites ("woonwagenkampen") in especially North Brabant but also in South Limburg, South Holland (mostly around The Hague) and Drenthe. When it comes to the North Brabant networks plenty of high level criminals are not exclusively from the camp sites and also come from working class towns like St. Willebrord or from border towns in the Flemish Campines region.
The activities of the traditional Dutch networks depends on the region. Networks from North Brabant and South Limburg focus a lot on the production of and international trade in synthetic drugs. They're involved in importing cocaine and hashish (especially from Lebanon and Pakistan) as well, but the trade in synthetic drugs is their main bread and butter. Their turnover is enormous. Networks from Rotterdam/Schiedam, The Hague region and Drenthe are mostly involved in the international cocaine and hashish trade. The traditional Amsterdam area networks these days are mostly involved in the hashish trade and in extortative real estate deals; they mostly infiltrative the activities of shady realtors, contractors and bankers and squeeze them out.
Moroccans are the biggest minority group in the Netherlands and when it comes to the cocaine trade they have taken up a very important position. A lot of the retail trade in cocaine in big cities like Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam, but also in smaller cities in South Limburg is monopolized by Moroccan criminal families. Whereas the trade in Lebanese and Pakistani hashish is largely the business of traditional Dutch networks, the importation and trade in Moroccan hashish is a mostly Moroccan affair. Most Dutch Moroccans have family members in the Rif in North Morocco and criminals use their family connections to set up these trafficking networks. Their large scale involvement in the cocaine trade has made them a huge target for law enforcement and the police is coming down on the quite hard.
Gangs with origins in Suriname and Curaçao are also involved in the smuggling of cocaine. At the moment they're not as big time as the Moroccan groups (who import tons), but in their respective areas these gangs have the retail drug game on lock and they're highly territorial. It's not uncommon for them to fly in killers from the rainforest region in Suriname or from Curaçao. Sometimes Surinamese and Curaçaoan criminals also work in cahoots with Moroccan or Dutch criminals in the cocaine trade or do murder-for-hire jobs for them.
Outlaw motorcycle groups like Hells Angels (traditionally Dutch working class guys) or Satudarah (a one percenter composed of guys from Moluccan origin and Dutch working class guys) were traditionally highly active, but the government has forbidden them these days. They're still active in a more under-the-radar kind of way.
The strongest "transnational" organized crime groups in the Netherlands are traditionally the groups from Turkey, the Balkans and from Lithuania.
The Turkish underworld is extremely active in the heroin trade in the Netherlands, but they also dabble in cocaine and other stuff. It most concerns well known criminal organizations based in the Black Sea region of Turkey and East/Southeast Anatolia (mostly of Kurdish origin). Networks consisting of Netherlands-born Turkish criminals also exist of course and often cooperate with the networks based in Turkey.
Serbian/Montenegrin and Bosnian organized crime used to have a powerful base in the Netherlands as well, but mostly operate low-key these days.
"Russian" OC in the Netherlands are actually mostly Lithuanian networks that are active in car theft rings and chop shops, arms trafficking and smuggling contraband tobacco, fuel and substances used for the production of synthetic drugs.
There are other transnational groups active, but they're less established. Albanian networks in the Netherlands are not as entrenched as their counterparts in Belgium or Germany. Nigerian groups deal drugs, but not on a major scale. Chinese Triad activity is very low-key these days. Italian organized crime mostly launders money in the Netherlands. Criminals from the UK and Ireland often flee to the Netherlands, but don't really conduct any local territorial operations.
Good overview TKJ! You could add some Polish groups Greeks and there were some Hungarians involved in the past. In the Amsterdam region there's also Israeli OC. The oldest 'foreign groups' are by far the Chinese going back to the early 1900s.
Good overview TKJ! You could add some Polish groups Greeks and there were some Hungarians involved in the past. In the Amsterdam region there's also Israeli OC. The oldest 'foreign groups' are by far the Chinese going back to the early 1900s.
Yes, Chinese organized crime used to be huge in the Netherlands. All of the major Hong Kong Triad groups as well as Hokkien/Teochew gangs from Singapore (mainly Ah Kong) used to have a presence in the Chinatowns of major Dutch cities. Nowadays Chinese organized crime in the Netherlands is extremely low-key, even more so than Serb/Montenegrin organized crime.
Polish are small fish when it comes to OC. Polish gangs mainly conduct some organized theft and some contraband tobacco smuggling. Their activities are highly overshadowed by those of the Lithuanian networks, who are larger, more organized and definitely more feared.
Greeks are very low-key as well, but every Greek enclave has some organized crime activity going on. Lots of illegal gambling and some smuggling. Never really heard about Greek organized crime in the Netherlands though...but there definitely is Greek organized crime going on in some Belgian border towns.
Never heard about Hungarian organized crime...must be a small time thing. You hear some stuff about Romanian organized crime, which is incredibly overrated. Romanian OC mostly concerns criminals from the gypsy community who do some theft, ATM skimming and some pimping... Hungarian OC must be the same kinda thing, but you never really hear about it.
Israeli OC is definitely big in Belgium so there's likely some involvement in the Netherlands as well. In Belgium it mostly concerns the activities of a few Georgian Jewish criminal clans, Jewish criminals with origins in Ukraine and a few traditional networks that are headquartered in Israel have shown up in Belgium as well. A lot of traditional Israel-based criminal families are of Moroccan Jewish origin and in Antwerp they sometimes work with local Moroccan crime families (who are Muslim, but don't care when it comes to money) but they also work with Dutch and Italian groups when it comes to the international ecstasy trade.
Fantastic intel guys. I forget how relevant the Netherlands are when it comes to the drug trade and crime. For a nation so small it’s crazy to see how complex and diverse its underworld is.
Never heard about Hungarian organized crime...must be a small time thing. You hear some stuff about Romanian organized crime, which is incredibly overrated. Romanian OC mostly concerns criminals from the gypsy community who do some theft, ATM skimming and some pimping... Hungarian OC must be the same kinda thing, but you never really hear about it.
Many Hungarian hookers in the red light districts here so in investigations in the human trafficking Hungarians have popped up here and there and in 2020 one of the biggest drug bosses Csaba S. was caught in Holland.
Never heard about Hungarian organized crime...must be a small time thing. You hear some stuff about Romanian organized crime, which is incredibly overrated. Romanian OC mostly concerns criminals from the gypsy community who do some theft, ATM skimming and some pimping... Hungarian OC must be the same kinda thing, but you never really hear about it.
Many Hungarian hookers in the red light districts here so in investigations in the human trafficking Hungarians have popped up here and there and in 2020 one of the biggest drug bosses Csaba S. was caught in Holland.
Csaba was more of a hitman who did jobs and sometimes trafficked cocaine for Serbian/Montenegrin organized crime. He was originally from Vojvodina.
Never heard about Hungarian organized crime...must be a small time thing. You hear some stuff about Romanian organized crime, which is incredibly overrated. Romanian OC mostly concerns criminals from the gypsy community who do some theft, ATM skimming and some pimping... Hungarian OC must be the same kinda thing, but you never really hear about it.
Many Hungarian hookers in the red light districts here so in investigations in the human trafficking Hungarians have popped up here and there and in 2020 one of the biggest drug bosses Csaba S. was caught in Holland.
Csaba was more of a hitman who did jobs and sometimes trafficked cocaine for Serbian/Montenegrin organized crime. He was originally from Vojvodina.
That is Csaba Dér who was arrested in Prague in 2019, the drug boss Csaba S. was caught here in 2020.
Never heard about Hungarian organized crime...must be a small time thing. You hear some stuff about Romanian organized crime, which is incredibly overrated. Romanian OC mostly concerns criminals from the gypsy community who do some theft, ATM skimming and some pimping... Hungarian OC must be the same kinda thing, but you never really hear about it.
Many Hungarian hookers in the red light districts here so in investigations in the human trafficking Hungarians have popped up here and there and in 2020 one of the biggest drug bosses Csaba S. was caught in Holland.
Csaba was more of a hitman who did jobs and sometimes trafficked cocaine for Serbian/Montenegrin organized crime. He was originally from Vojvodina.
That is Csaba Dér who was arrested in Prague in 2019, the drug boss Csaba S. was caught here in 2020.
Ah didn't know about that one! I heard that in Budapest you have some of gypsy origin who deal drugs and do a lot of pimping. Never really heard about Hungarian organized crime on a major scale.
There are definitely a lot of prostitutes from Hungary in the Benelux though.
Fantastic intel guys. I forget how relevant the Netherlands are when it comes to the drug trade and crime. For a nation so small it’s crazy to see how complex and diverse its underworld is.
For sure. Quite a few Western European countries have a huge and diverse underworld. Netherlands, UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden and Denmark all host homegrown as well as transnational organized crime networks that have a way above average reach. There are way poorer European countries (Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia...even Poland...to name a few) where of course criminal activity exists, but where the homegrown organized crime elements don't nearly have the reach and pull of those that are around in those mentioned comparatively "rich" Western European countries.
Traditional dutch organized crime has a long history ! The Bende van Oss refers to a turbulent period in which criminals from Oss, between 1888 and 1934, were responsible for many serious crimes.
The fact that criminals increasingly launder their money via cryptocurrencies is reflected in the latest confiscation figures from the judiciary. This shows that in the past year more than four times as many cryptocurrencies were taken from criminals as in 2020.
Justice took crypto currency worth 8.3 million in 2020 from criminals. The following year, that amount increased sharply: in 2021 it was 34.6 million euros. This was reported by the Public Prosecution Service on Thursday. In 2019, the confiscation of cryptocurrency as an asset for criminals was apparently still in its infancy. Then the judiciary 'plucked' 1.1 million in cryptocurrency.
The wanted drug lord Piet W. (Wortel) was arrested on Wednesday at a passport control in Aruba. It is the intention that he will be extradited to the Netherlands, because of a previous conviction.
W. was sentenced to seven years in prison in March 2014. He was found guilty of leading an international criminal organization that dealt in cocaine. The Public Prosecution Service had demanded 9 years in prison.
He was arrested for this in April 2012 in Barcelona. However, W. managed to flee. Since then, according to insiders, he has mainly lived in Suriname.
W. has Dutch nationality. He had applied for Surinamese nationality last year, but did not receive it.
Piet W. was seen by the judiciary as 'the undisputed leader' of a drug organization that was involved in cocaine trafficking for years. This organization was regarded as a multinational that operated worldwide.
Subsequently, a series of cocaine transports were mapped from South America to, among others, Hong Kong, the Cape Verde islands and the Netherlands.
Landgraaf shooting linked to Colombian crystal meth organization The house on the Groenstraat in Landgraaf, where a shooting took place on Wednesday evening, is linked by the police to Colombians who produce crystal meth , according to L1. The building came into the picture because a national investigation into the group of suspects has been going on for some time.
\\At around 8.45 pm a report was received to the police that local residents had heard shots in Groenstraat. Several bullet casings were found in front of the door of a house. During a search of the house, in addition to 40-year-old Bas C. (the owner of the property), two Colombians (Janller L., 51) and Alexander G., 48) and a woman were also arrested. The woman is said to be related to one of the Colombian men.
Drug lord Roger P. (50) disappears behind bars for fifteen years because of large-scale cocaine trafficking. The Rotterdammer, better known as 'Piet Costa', is considered a leader in Dutch organized crime.
Eric Oosterom 11-04-22, 14:46 Last update: 11-04-22, 17:21 P. heard the verdict unmoved on Monday afternoon. In the Rotterdam court he appeared again with a hood over his head and a mouth cap in front. He spoke once: when the judge asked him if he understood the verdict, he said he did.
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) previously described P. as a superpower that operated under the radar for years: he let himself be driven around in cheap cars, lived at various addresses and even had a 'man' to make restaurant reservations.
It enabled P. to rustle up large-scale cocaine shipments. The Public Prosecution Service held the Rotterdammer responsible for three lots - of 1015, 3776 and 1200 kilos respectively - of the white gold, but suspected that his actual trade was much larger.
Record year According to the officers, the ambitions of the Rotterdammer were also great. For example, P. and his companions would have talked about an unprecedentedly expensive batch of no less than 25,000 kilos. By way of comparison: in the whole of 2021, an absolute record year, the investigative services plucked 70,571 kilos of cocaine - street value: more than 5 billion euros - from containers within the port of Rotterdam .
According to the OM, P. lived for years like God in France. He ate in the fanciest restaurants, so to speak, walked around with tens of thousands of euros and drank the most expensive cognacs.
The Rotterdammer was arrested in the summer of 2020, after the police and the judiciary discovered him through the EncroChat hack. This encrypted chat service was extremely popular among criminals. EncroChat messages therefore formed the most important evidence against P. and the eight suspects who were on trial in the same trial.
A Blackberry phone found in Dubai in December 2019 during Ridouan Taghi's arrest contained photos of a naked, tortured woman. The authorities believe the woman is Naima Jilal, who went missing in October 2019.
The Dutch woman was one of the top figures in the Mocro mafia and made more enemies than she deserved with her 'cocaine transport charter company' - and she made millions.
Three frontmen of the banned motorcycle club No Surrender have been sentenced on appeal again to years in prison for leading a criminal organization. They were also found guilty of extortion and theft with violence.
Former captain Henk Kuipers received the highest penalty again: 8.5 years. That is lower than the ten years he received from the court, but according to the court it amounts to the same in practice, because the rules for early release have changed in the meantime. Now convicts can be released up to two years before the end of their prison sentence, that was after previously after serving two-thirds.
Founder Klaas Otto has to go to jail for three years, as does ‘captain’ Rico R., the ANP reports. A fourth No Surrender member was given a 30-month sentence, 20 of which were suspended.
An entrepreneur was also charged. He enlisted Kuipers’ help in extorting business relations and was sentenced to 22 months in prison, 15 of which were conditional.
A member of Ridouan Taghi's organization was arrested in Serbia. Boris P., 45, known as "the Bosnian", is one of the last leaders of the organization criminal of Ridouan Taghi. According to justice he is known as the 'CEO of the violence and finance divisions'. Top members have now been arrested around the world Taghi in Dubai, Said Razzouki in Colombia, Gerel Palm in Brazil, Jaoud F. in Morocco, Gregory F. in Curaçao and the brothers Mao and Mario R. in Suriname.
Gigantic arsenal found during arrest Mink Kok, also rocket launchers Yesterday, 19:46 in INTERIOR
AMSTERDAM - The police in Lebanon appears to have found an enormous arsenal of weapons with the Amsterdam criminal Mink K. (60), after his recent arrest in Beirut. He was arrested with his son-in-law Najim Z. (41) for a drug case, but during house searches the police found dozens of heavy weapons, including rocket launchers. That reports Het Parool.
The weapons discovery was not made public because Lebanon and the Netherlands are still in diplomatic consultations about whether Lebanon will prosecute the suspects because of the weapons or whether the Netherlands will add the weapons case to the drug case if the two are handed over to the Netherlands.
Mink K. has been a gun enthusiast all his adult life. He was prosecuted twice in the Netherlands for possession of large quantities of war equipment. On March 31, K. and his son-in-law were arrested in Beirut, at the request of the police and justice in the Netherlands. The duo are accused of large-scale drug trafficking from South America to the Netherlands.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2022 - 08:05 Dutch intelligence service using controversial Israeli hacking software Dutch intelligence service AIVD uses controversial hacking software from the Israeli company NSO Group, the Volkskrant reported based on information from four sources. The AIVD used the software to break into Ridouan Taghi's phone, among other things, according to the newspaper.
Taghi is the main suspect in the massive assassinations trial Marengo. According to the newspaper's sources, the AIVD used the Pegasus software to track him down late in 2019. The police arrested Taghi in Dubai in December 2019. The sources did not say what role the software played in the arrest.
Well-known criminal Sjaak Burger detained after weapons find By JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL
Updated 6 min ago 26 min ago in INTERIOR
AMSTERDAM - One of the four men arrested last week in connection with a large arms find in Rijsenhout is the well-known and infamous Amsterdam professional criminal Sjaak Burger.
He is seen by the police and the judiciary as one of the leaders of the so-called polder penoze and in recent years has invariably been featured in major investigations into organized crime. In the eyes of the Public Prosecution Service, he also has connections with the Mocromafia and is considered a contact of the infamous Remmers family.
Sjaak Burger is seen as the 'master of arms' of the Amsterdam underworld and was convicted in 1994 for manslaughter in a cafe in Badhoevedorp. He himself was the target of an attack in January 2015. Burger was then in a restaurant in Panama, where he was shot in the head from behind.
Burger was seriously injured but survived the assassination attempt. After months of stay in hospitals, he had to stand trial in the Netherlands in the Passage process, including on suspicion of committing an attack on Heineken kidnapper Cor van Hout.
Exactly the same day In the end, Burger was sentenced to 5.5 years himself for arms trafficking. Cor van Hout was liquidated on January 24, 2003 in Amstelveen. The attack on Burger was on the exact same day, but twelve years later. The police are still considering revenge for the murder of Van Hout, but also do not rule out Burger in Panama was shot in a conflict over cocaine trade.
The police retraced Sjaak Burger at the end of 2021 thanks to messages from cracked PGP telephones from the Sky ECC platform. After an investigation, a warehouse in Rijsenhout came into view as a location where firearms were possibly stored. A raid followed on Monday 30 May, in which a large number of weapons were found. These are automatic and so-called sniper weapons and explosives.
The police also found a cocaine laundry with many chemicals and several kilograms of coke and amphetamine. All suspects have been brought before the examining magistrate.
In the coming weeks, public prosecutors will pronounce the indictment in the Marengo trial against Ridouan Taghi and sixteen co-defendants in the secure court in Amsterdam-Osdorp. Ten days have been planned for the indictment, on June 28 the officers will conclude with the sentences. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the seventeen suspects have been members of a criminal organization that has committed six liquidations and made four attempts to liquidate people. In addition, there have been three liquidation preparations and two attempts to detonate an explosive device. One of the suspects is crown witness Nabil B..
Wednesday morning the suspects were obliged by the court to come, only Saïd R. followed the case via a video connection. The public prosecutors realized that the room was full of suspects, but that relatives were completely absent. According to the officers, there was not a single next of kin who dared to exercise the right to speak.
It concerns the relatives of spyshop director Ronald Bakker (59), Samir Erraghib (36), Abderrahim Belhadj (29), Ranko Scekic (45), Martin Kok (49) and Hakim Changachi (31). Four of the victims left behind (young) children.
The judiciary came to the conclusion that there was one network that was led by Ridouan Taghi. And the judiciary also concludes that more murders have been committed than were charged in the Marengo trial.
Justice believes that every member of the organization bears full responsibility for what has happened in the name of the organization. "So there is no innocent or insignificant contribution in that regard." It seems that later in the indictment, the judiciary will state that in many cases the suspects committed the murders together, ie co-perpetration.
After the indictment is completed on June 28, pleas from lawyers for the suspects will follow after the summer until the end of 2022. In addition, the court is dealing with the pending case against Saïd R., who is accused of the same facts. The trial will certainly not be completed in 2022, the suspects may hear the verdict in 2023.
The top criminal Henk Rommy, also known as the Black Cobra, who is suspected of a double murder, is allowed to await his trial in freedom. The Amsterdam court determined this on Friday.
The Amsterdam court today suspended the pre-trial detention of Rommy (71), because she expects that the handling of his criminal case will take too long. He stated that he himself had health problems, because of a heart condition. This writes Het Parool on Friday afternoon.
Rommy returned to the Netherlands at the end of January last year, after being imprisoned in the United States for almost sixteen years for preparing for ecstasy smuggling. He was arrested in Spain in 2003 and extradited to the US two years later, where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In 2015, it was already announced that Rommy was still facing prosecution, as justice suspects him of ordering the 1993 double murder of Lebanese diamond seller and hashish dealer Henie Shamel (55) and his girlfriend Anne de Witte (44) in Antwerp.
Rommy would have had a debt of one million euros with Shamel, which he wanted to get rid of. Shamel and his girlfriend were shot at close range in a car in the center of Antwerp. They died from their injuries a few days later.
Dutch mayors make impassioned plea for stronger government action against ‘mafia-style’ drug crime Mayors of Amsterdam and Rotterdam paint a troubled picture of the Netherlands in written appeal for help
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Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries was murdered last year. (Peter Dejong/AP) By Peter Cluskey Fri Jun 17 2022 - 18:39
In an unprecedented step, the mayors of the two largest cities in the Netherlands have appealed in writing to the Dutch government to take tougher action against organised drugs crime, warning that it’s assuming mafia-style proportions aimed at “weakening our democratic legal system”.
The joint letter to parliament from Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, and her counterpart in Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, is a reflection of the apparent vulnerability of one of Europe’s richest societies to the “increasing wealth and power” of its own drugs underworld.
In an observation that may raise a few eyebrows in Rome, the letter underlines the emergence of what it calls “a criminal culture of violence that’s acquiring Italian features” following the killings of lawyer Derk Wiersum in 2019 and crime journalist Peter R de Vries last year.
The Italian reference comes following a fact-finding visit to Rome last week by justice minister Dilan Ye?ilgöz-Zegeriusilan and D66 MP Franc Weerwind to study the security measures taken since the infamous murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in Sicily in summer 1992.
At the end of their visit, the minister said the murders of the two judges had been a turning point, after which Italian society as a whole had rejected the mafia, creating room for new legislation, particularly Article 416bis, which banned all contact with the outside world for imprisoned mafiosi. That turning point had not yet been reached in the Netherlands, she said. “The outrage was short-lived and the step up to a similar type of action did not take place.”
‘Narco-state’ In their letter, Ms Halsema and Mr Aboutaleb paint a troubled picture of the Netherlands as a country where journalists, lawyers, politicians and holders of public office needed police protection, sometimes 24 hours a day, where homes were being shot at and people attacked.
“This is no longer a matter of short vicious turf wars for control of the drugs trade spilling over into wider society occasionally,” the mayors say.
“The fact is that international drugs trafficking and the money laundering that goes with it are hugely increasing the wealth and power of the drugs underworld, with violent consequences.
“We are now seeing violence as calculated displays of power, with the intention of weakening our democratic legal system.”
Similar warnings have come from Jan Struijs of the police union, NPB, who described the Netherlands as “a narco-state” where drug crime was “rotting the pillars of society”.
Under pressure after the De Vries shooting, then justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus conceded that “excessive violence” against politicians, lawyers or journalists was “no longer a taboo”.
Last month, the Netherlands dropped from six to 28 in the Reporters Without Borders index of journalists’ safety.
Known drug criminal Mink K. extradited to the Netherlands Top criminal Mink K., together with his son-in-law Najim Z., has been extradited from Lebanon to the Netherlands. The two were picked up on Saturday by a defense aircraft and transferred to the Netherlands under the supervision of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Mink K. was arrested March 31 in Beirut for large-scale drug trafficking from South America to the Netherlands. An enormous arsenal of weapons was also found.
Domestic editors 20-06-22, 10:17 Last update: 11:15 am Today, the Amsterdam criminal and his son-in-law will be brought before the examining magistrate in Rotterdam, who will decide on their remand, confirms his lawyer Mark Teurlings.
The Public Prosecution Service suspects both men of involvement in large-scale international drug trafficking. Based on intercepted PGP messages from cracked crypto communications, the Public Prosecution Service believes that the men are involved in transporting hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from South America to the Netherlands. They are associated with consignments of 750 and 840 kilos of cocaine intercepted in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam.
Prosecutor demands life against Taghi, co-suspects in assassinations trial Update 2:30 p.m. - Article updated with more details
On Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded life in prison against Ridouan Taghi in the extensive Marengo assassinations trial. According to the OM, the 44-year-old Taghi is responsible for six murders and four attempted murders, among other things. “He was the head of an organization dedicated to committed murders,” the prosecutor said. “He was the one who made all the decisions.”
The OM also demanded life sentences against four co-defendants. This concerns the brothers Mao and Mario R. (47 and 42), Mohamed R. (40), and Achraf B. (29). According to the OM, they were involved in multiple murders or attempted murders and were ranked high in Taghi’s organization. The sentence demand against another alleged accomplice of Taghi, Said R. (Mohamed R.’s older brother), will be made later in the criminal case.
About Taghi, the prosecutor said: “All the lines of the different murders converge on him. He makes all the decisions, and they are about life and death. Taghi has left a trail of devastation and grief and exercised total control and terror.” According to the judiciary, he was “particularly persistent - once on a hit list, someone couldn’t get off it.” The sentence demands against the other suspects varied from almost six years to over 26 years in prison.
The indictment, which lasted nine days, was the preliminary climax to the massive trial, which began in March 2018 with a first introductory hearing. Then the judiciary announced it had a key witness - Nabil B., who said he belonged to Taghi’s gang and regretted it. He made a series of statements against his former accomplices in exchange for a reduced sentence. The OM demanded ten years in prison against him on Tuesday.
Less than a week after that first hearing in March 2018, B.’s brother Reduan was shot dead. In September 2019, B.’s lawyer Derk Wiersum was murdered. And in July last year, Peter R. de Vries was shot dead after he acted as advisor and confidant to B. These three murders are not part of the Marengo trial.
Airspace above EBI in Vught closed due to risk of escapes Today at 4:56 PM • Updated today at 7:17 PM
The airspace above the Extra Secure Institution in Vught will be closed from 1 July due to an increased risk of flight attempts by air. This is happening at the request of the mayor Van de Mortel of Vught and the minister Weerwind for Legal Protection. There are several serious criminals in the EBI, including Ridouan Taghi.
The airspace above the EBI will be closed up to an altitude of approximately 450 meters and within a radius of 3.7 kilometers. The measure will take effect on July 1 and will remain in effect until at least January 1. For example, the measure should prevent aerial photos from being taken of the EBI, but also weapons, narcotics and means of communication from being smuggled in.
No acute threat According to an EBI spokesperson, there would be no acute threat or risk of an attempt to escape. It would also have nothing to do with the trial against Ridouan Taghi, which also took place in Amsterdam today. There, the Public Prosecution Service demanded a life sentence against him.
Five people have been arrested for the murder of a Dutchman in Spain at the beginning of this year. The victim's body was found in January near Chiclana de la Frontera, not far from the city of Cádiz.
The Spanish police, the Guardia Civil, released the arrests on Wednesday, without naming the victim. It is therefore not clear whether it concerns the murder of the Utrecht drug trafficker Ebrahim Buzhu. The Public Prosecution Service cannot confirm this. "It is a Spanish investigation," said a spokesman for the National Public Prosecutor's Office. Buzhu was liquidated in Chiclana in January.
The Spanish news site ABC does mention his name and also mentions Buzhu's nickname: The Butcher. His origin is also mentioned.
According to the service, the shot Dutchman was "executed with a shot to the head to settle a bill for drug trafficking". After the murder, the getaway car was set on fire elsewhere in Chiclana. According to Spain, the victim was involved in the hashish trade between the Costa del Sol, the Netherlands and France.
The identity of the suspects has not yet been released. Two of them are suspected of murder, membership of a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons. The three others would have helped. According to the Guardia Civil, the suspects traveled from the Netherlands to Málaga and rented the car used in the murder there.
Buzhu was a key witness against alleged top criminal Ridouan Taghi. In 2015, the Utrechter was the first to tell the police how powerful Taghi had become.
Three life terms for suspects in Caloh Wagoh liquidation process
In the liquidation process against members of the former motorcycle club Caloh Wagoh, the Midden-Nederland court has sentenced three suspects to life imprisonment for murder, attempted murder and preparing for murder.
A total of nineteen suspects were on trial today. Two suspects went free, 14 others received prison terms ranging from one year to 30 years.
The main suspect Delano R. has also been sentenced to life in prison. According to the court, he had a leading role in an organization that had made the liquidation of people a "earning model". According to the court, R. showed no hesitation, regret or remorse.
In addition to R., the Public Prosecution Service had demanded life imprisonment against four others.
'FBI warned the Netherlands: Taghi communicated with mafia boss from prison' Ridouan Taghi has had contact with the outside world several times from the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught, while he should have been in complete seclusion. According to NRC , it was the American security service FBI who pointed this out to the Netherlands in November last year.
It was already known that the judiciary suspects his cousin and former lawyer Youssef Taghi of having passed on messages from Ridouan from prison. NRC now writes that Taghi also had contact with the outside world from the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) before Youssef's arrival.
He is said to have had contact with an accomplice, the Italian mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale, in November 2020 using a crypto phone. He in turn was in contact with Taghi's son. The FBI noticed this and warned the Netherlands. According to the American security service, it did not stop at one contact, but there would be regular communication from the EBI. Taghi received help from one or more prison guards.
The 44-year-old owner of a well-known clothing brand from Amsterdam has been arrested for drug trafficking and money laundering. The Public Prosecution Service reports this today. It concerns Domenico Giannattasio from Purmerend, who runs clothing brand My Brand . The man, who lives in Purmerend, came into the picture during an ongoing drug investigation. The detectives already searched his home last month. In addition, 228,000 euros in cash was found. In addition to the money, a firearm and luxury goods, including a classic car and watches, were also seized. The man was abroad during the search and last week turned himself in to the police of his own accord, where he was arrested. In August last year , G. 's very expensive Bentley Bentayga burned down in Zaandam. He then said in the paper that he had no idea who might be behind it. It is not yet clear whether the fire is related to this case, but is under investigation by the police. The catalog value of the car is over two tons. The fashion brand, which Domenico G. founded with his brother Giovanni, was popular with football players and other celebrities for some time . The style was described as bling bling by one fashion magazine .
FBI warned of Ridouan Taghi’s ‘unsupervised’ texts from inside prison Taghi, who had previously been heavily involved with Daniel Kinahan, is currently being held in the Netherlands where he is one of 16 defendants in the Marengo trial
Ridouan Taghi you cannot make it with this guy, still in the thick of the action in Hollands ADX. Fucking legend or a complete idiot, I would say abit of both with some real sick tendencies too.
Ridouan Taghi you cannot make it with this guy, still in the thick of the action in Hollands ADX. Fucking legend or a complete idiot, I would say abit of both with some real sick tendencies too.
He's def unique in the history of oc in Holland, ten years ago he was a nobody. He wouldn't collaborate but a psychological research should be done.
Man shot dead in Antwerp, victim and suspects possibly Dutch
A man was shot and killed in Antwerp on Friday evening. It may be a Dutchman and the suspects are also Dutch, Belgian media report. According to witnesses, seven shots were fired.
The shooting incident happened on a public road in the Deurne district, near the Sportpaleis. The man was found on the sidewalk in front of a house, Het Laatste Nieuws reports . "Emergency services have tried to resuscitate the victim, but they were not successful," said a police spokesperson.
The area has been closed off and the police have found a car with a Dutch registration, which may belong to the victim. Agents are still looking for another car with a Dutch registration number in which the suspects allegedly fled.
Seems there was a conflict on the street victim is R. G. who has been arrested 60 times for drug crimes it happened in front of a home of the notorious TURTLES a large family of Moroccan origin.
ATM robbery is the hot thing here for years the last month 10 in Amsterdam alone, because they are more protected they now use stronger explosives causing a lot of damage.
TUESDAY, 23 AUGUST 2022 - 13:13 Four Dutch men caught in Antwerp with explosives, firearm A group of Dutch men with explosives and a gun were arrested in the Bogerhuit district of Antwerp early Tuesday morning. They were caught near a restaurant owned by the family of kickboxer Jamal Ben Saddik which was previously targeted in attacks.
The arrest happened at about 5 a.m., authorities in the Belgian city confirmed to HLN. “Police stopped a suspicious vehicle and proceeded to check it. A firearm and incendiary bombs were found in the car. The four young Dutchmen were arrested,” said Kato Belmans from the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office.
-ADVERTENTIE- Their intention was still under investigation. They will be interrogated before the case is handed over to an examining magistrate.
The car was stopped near the Poke Bowl Place on Stenenbrug. Earlier this summer, two men were arrested after a Kalashnikov was used to fire gunshots at the building. A week later, someone kicked open the door of the building and threw a firebomb inside, HLN reported. They also scrawled the word “thief” on the shutters.
The kickboxer’s brother, Saïd Ben Saddik, is rumored to have stolen some or all of a drug shipment in the past. Poke Bowl Place is also located where the drug crime suspect used to house the Belhuis mobile phone shop, where he sold encrypted mobile phones allegedly using the Sky ECC service.
Authorities in the Netherlands claimed to have hacked the Sky ECC service, which the company denied, before the Sky server was seized. Antwerp officials similarly cracked down on the Sky ECC network.
However Dutch police infiltrated Sky ECC, whether by phishing or by a hack, it has led to several arrests in the Dutch drug gang underworld. The gangs are often linked to investigations not only at the Rotterdam port and elsewhere in the Netherlands, but also at the Port of Antwerp.
Razzouki hinted at Van den Heuvel attack By OUR REPORTERS
Updated Yesterday, 5:08 PM AMSTERDAM - Said Razzouki – according to justice the right-hand man of Ridouan Taghi – made serious threats against crime reporter John van den Heuvel of De Telegraaf via a PGP telephone from his cell in Colombia.
The arrested Razzouki in Medellin. The arrested Razzouki in Medellin.? ANP / AFP This is apparent from recent official reports, which were added to the Marengo file last week. The PGP phone was found two years ago in the cell of Razzouki, who had been tracked down and arrested in Colombia.
The Netherlands Forensic Institute only recently managed to crack the telephone and came across a conversation between Razzouki and a co-defendant about an alleged collaboration between Van den Heuvel and key witness Nabil B.
Razzouki then says in a conversation about Van den Heuvel: “That's why that dog John has to pay. He thinks he is safe now. I hope he moves more (…). Yes brother, really a dirty dog ??but you just have to work hard. I hope I'll be here for a few years so we can hunt well because it's been quiet for too long."
Van den Heuvel was informed last week by the police and the Public Prosecution Service about the conversation, which according to the judiciary may indicate that Razzouki is hinting at an assassination attempt with 'that John must pay'. Razzouki apparently hoped to stay in Colombia even longer so that he could better 'hunt' for Van den Heuvel from there.
'Illegal cell activities' Van den Heuvel about the threatening messages: “This does not surprise me. It is yet another proof that some suspects in the Marengo case also continue to engage in illegal activities from prison. I am happy with the good protection by the DKDB, but unfortunately it is not only possible from Colombia but also from Dutch prisons to continue criminal activities. Incidentally, it is complete nonsense that I worked with Nabil B. or with an 'alliance'. It just reflects the paranoid and criminal mindset of some criminals.”
De Telegraaf revealed in September 2020 that the PGP telephones and two regular devices had been found in Razzouki's Colombian cell shortly before. The main suspect in the Marengo trial was extradited to the Netherlands in December 2021. Razzouki was arrested on February 7, 2020 after a manhunt by a special team of the Colombian police. Undercover agents found him after a months-long operation at a shelter in Colombia's cocaine capital, Medellín.
After his surrender, Razzouki was placed in the Extra Secure Institution in Vught. He still resides there. Many more leaders of the mocromafia are now imprisoned in Vught. One of them is Ridouan Taghi, who is suspected by the Public Prosecution Service of plotting serious crimes and an escape from the EBI. He communicated with a cousin, who is a lawyer. For example, the two were able to communicate with each other for months because conversations between a lawyer and a client may not be overheard.
The Spanish police have arrested two leaders of a Dutch-Belgian drug gang. They are a Dutchman and a Belgian, who lived in Marbella. Later , seven suspects were also arrested in the Netherlands and Belgium. Expensive cars were also seized.
The gang smuggled cocaine from Brazil to Antwerp and Rotterdam. The case started when a consignment of cocaine was intercepted in Brazil in May 2020, followed by drug seizures in Antwerp and Rotterdam.
The leaders lived in unprecedentedly luxurious villas in Marbella. One contained offices, three saunas and a padel court.
'Dutch (42) arrested by Maltese police for large-scale drug smuggling' 1 hour ago abroad _
SANTA VENERA - The Maltese police have arrested a 42-year-old Dutchman. He is suspected of possessing large amounts of cocaine and heroin, with a street value of one and a half million euros. This reports the Malta Independent.
The man has been under police surveillance for some time. When the man was arrested in the town of Qormi, he was in possession of 5 kilos of cocaine and 4 kilos of heroin. Not much later, a search of his garage also found 380 thousand euros in cash. He is suspected of importing, smuggling and possessing prohibited substances. He was also charged with money laundering. The Dutchman is still in custody.
"Mocro mafia has Amalia and Prime Minister Rutte in its sights, increased security"
The police and the Public Prosecution Service (OM) are very concerned about the security situation of Princess Amalia and Prime Minister Mark Rutte after new signals that leaders of the Mocro mafia would have targeted one of them. This is reported by De Telegraaf , based on sources within the police and the Public Prosecution Service.
Domestic editors 17-09-22, 06:12 Last update: 12:15 pm Security measures have been stepped up considerably as an attempted kidnapping or an attack is taken into account. For example, according to the newspaper, the crown princess is temporarily not living in her student house.
In addition, the judiciary is concerned about close contacts between Ridouan Taghi and Mohammed B. , who is serving a life sentence for the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004. The two were detained together in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught.
Because the contacts were too close, according to the judiciary, B. was transferred. Since then, the two have sent letters with verses from the Koran to each other, which, according to justice, may have contained encrypted messages.
Suspicious cars have been spotted a number of times around the supply of suspects and threatened persons in the Marengo process. Among other things, the Special Support Team (BOT) of the Ministry of Justice transport to the Bunker in Amsterdam-Osdorp, where the Amsterdam court is handling the Marengo trial, including that of the main suspect Ridouan Taghi.
The BOT is alert to the possibility of a violent escape being undertaken. That is why the BOT regularly varies the approach route. Scanning is carried out on parking lots, petrol stations and viaducts. A police helicopter often flies along as well.
The Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, is being extra protected after a Dutch car was found near his house in Kortrijk in which heavy weapons and explosives were found. This is reported by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgium. Three suspects were arrested in the Netherlands in the night from Friday to Saturday. The car has been seized and is being investigated, reports the Belgian site HLN. The heavy weapons would be Kalashnikovs. The national crisis center immediately took the necessary measures to place the minister under increased security. He will not participate in a number of activities that were planned for the time being, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office reported. It is unknown if Van Quickenborne was home at the time of the looming situation.
Van Quickenborne has stepped up the fight against the drug mafia as Minister of Justice. At the end of December, he traveled to the United Arab Emirates with prosecutor Frédéric Van Leeuw to sign two treaties. The purpose of this is to be able to find, pick up and take their assets away from large drug bosses - who often hide there. That may have fallen into bad ground with the leaders.
'Fourth suspect in case of Belgian minister still on the run' 1 hour ago in INTERIOR
AMSTERDAM - With the three persons with a Dutch passport who were arrested by the police at the request of Belgian colleagues, it is possible that not all suspects in the case involving the Belgian Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne have been arrested.
According to the Flemish television channel VTM, a fourth suspect is still on the run. Details about this person, such as nationality or age, are not known.
A car with Dutch number plates was found at the minister's house on Saturday. It contained, among other things, a heavy firearm, tension straps and combustible material. The straps could indicate a plan for a kidnapping.
Three suspects have been arrested who are said to be linked to the Dutch drug environment. A fourth suspect is still on the run.
The minister himself is at a hiding place, from where he said he would not bow to intimidation by criminals.
Burglary in family grave from The Hague “godfather” Piet S.' September 24, 2022
The family grave of The Hague crimeboss Piet S. was broken open a few weeks ago. According to Algemeen Dagblad, it appears to be a well-prepared action. The fence has been cut in a corner of the Sint Barbara cemetery, in a place that is out of sight of surveillance cameras. The family grave is a small building with four doors. Two doors have been demolished.
Jesus figure It is unknown if the burglars took anything there.
The roof of the building is made of copper. At the top of the wall is written in black letters: 'Where life begins and love never ends'. Below there is an image of a cross and a kneeling Jesus figure.
The last interment was in 2016. That was the brother of Piet S. – Jaap S..
Piet S. (66) has been in pre-trial detention since September 2020. He is the main suspect in the Taxus investigation into a criminal organization that is said to have committed large-scale drug trafficking. Important evidence comes from EncroChat's police hacked chats. The police also sent police infiltrators to members of the alleged criminal organization.
Breaking open graves is a crime that is rare in the Netherlands. The Algemeen Dagblad writes that in Traveller circles, violation of graves is regarded as a great offense and insult.
In December last year, De Telegraaf reported that Piet S. would have made extensive statements about his role in the Dutch underworld. Among other things, he would have tried to mediate between the parties in the bloody feud between two groups in the Amsterdam underworld.
Seven arrests and 22 raids in major drug and money laundering investigation October 11, 2022
On Tuesday morning, the police arrested seven suspects in a large-scale investigation into money laundering and drug trafficking in Rotterdam, Bergschenhoek, Oostvoorne, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel and Amsterdam. Arrest teams raided 22 locations, including Luxembourg and Serbia.
Two years of research The investigation into the criminal organization started two years ago when information came in about possible criminal activities of the suspects. A team of financial investigators led by the Public Prosecution Service Rotterdam then started collecting evidence against the suspects. That led to the arrests and raids on Tuesday morning.
Limits The seven suspects arrested in Rotterdam, Bergschenhoek, Oostvoorne, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel and Amsterdam are in restrictions and may only have contact with their lawyer. The Hague, Montfoort, Hoogvliet, Valkenburg and Denekamp were also raided.
Mega operation Hundreds of police officers are involved in the operation, including arrest teams and a security unit. The police expect that the searches of homes and business premises in the Netherlands and abroad will last all day.
The convicted drug boss Piet W. (53) was arrested by the police on Tuesday morning in a home in Almere. He is suspected by the police and the judiciary of involvement in two liquidations in 2019 in Amsterdam and Curaçao. The former professional football player Kelvin Maynard (32) and Genciël Feller (23) were shot dead. W. is also suspected of large-scale cocaine trafficking.
Police have raided at least seven different locations. This happened in homes, a hotel room and at a company in Amsterdam, Almere, Rotterdam and Diemen. The police searched for data carriers and administration, among other things.
Piet W. has been detained for questioning and will be brought before the examining magistrate in Rotterdam on Friday.
Many police at Catshuis due to suspicious situation The police is present in The Hague on Saturday afternoon with many units in the vicinity of the Catshuis. According to the police, this is because of a suspicious situation. The Marechaussee has also been summoned.
A police spokesperson tells De Telegraaf that he cannot elaborate further on the precise nature of the threat around Prime Minister Rutte's official residence.
The area is largely closed off and traffic has to take a detour. For example, the President Kennedylaan, the important route through The Hague that runs along the Catshuis, has been closed with police tapes.
The official residence is only used for official meetings. Prime Minister Rutte lives elsewhere. The Government Information Service refers to the police, but does say that, as far as we know, there was nothing on the agenda in the Catshuis on Saturday.
Security stepped up for princess Amalia and Mark Rutte after underworld 'threats'.
It was false alarm, but it shows Dutch police/security is very nervous about the situation.
The Cabinet aims to "cut off the head of organized crime," Prime Minister Mark Rutte said during the weekly press conference on Friday. He emphasized that this is the government's goal "in a general sense."
Dutch Princess under heavy security due to organized crime threats
Suspicions fall on the "Mocro Mafia," a Moroccan criminal syndicate operating in the Netherlands and Belgium, which also recently threatened the Belgian Minister of Justice.
1,000 cops raid Brabant caravan parks, businesses in drug investigation; Several arrests About 1,000 police, FIOD, and Denfese officers raided various places in Noord-Brabant on Monday in an investigation into the large-scale production and trafficking of synthetic drugs and money laundering. Several arrests have been made, a police spokesperson told Omroep Brabant.
Officers searched at least three caravan camps in Eindhoven, several businesses, including garage De Ronde in Best, and dozens of homes across the province and elsewhere in the country.
In Oeffelt, investigators found a drug lab under construction in a commercial building on Hapseweg. The drug lab will be dismantled. Officers also found items for a cannabis plantation in an apartment on Echternachtlaan in Eindhoven.
During the raids, the police seized several items, including a firearm and several cars. “This is in the context of confiscating criminal assets,” the police spokesperson said.
The police action will likely take the rest of the day.
According to Omroep Brabant, the involvement of Defense investigators is common practice in large-scale operations like this one. The Defense investigators have the knowledge and equipment to search for things like underground or hidden spaces.
Dutch Princess under heavy security due to organized crime threats
Suspicions fall on the "Mocro Mafia," a Moroccan criminal syndicate operating in the Netherlands and Belgium, which also recently threatened the Belgian Minister of Justice.
It's terrible I can understand politicans, but the innocent crown princess Amalia is pure terrorism. She would go to university and live in a student house in Amsterdam now she's living under 24h protection.
Letter lawyers about investigative methods, 'fair trial at stake'
More than a hundred criminal lawyers express their concerns about new investigative methods by the Public Prosecution Service (OM). The Public Prosecution Service would not be open about the method of seizing, tapping and hacking encrypted communication services.
As a result, the right to a fair trial and the right to privacy are at stake, the lawyers write. Meanwhile, decrypted messages play a key role in countless criminal cases. This ranges from relatively small cases to the trial of Ridouan Taghi.
The lawyers say they endorse "the social benefit of new, advanced investigative methods", but at the moment there is a lack of transparency about this, according to them.
As a result, the lawyers say they are unable to properly check whether evidence has been obtained lawfully and whether it is reliable. Judges would systematically reject requests to do so.
"That is pressing", the lawyers write, "because in the meantime strong, factual indications have become known that fundamental human rights have been violated or are at risk of being violated".
'Boundary reached' Normally, the lawyers say they only rule on individual cases. But now "a limit has been reached", they write. "The social importance of a good administration of justice is simply too great."
A spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service says in a response to Trouw that he is aware of the allegations in the letter. "To date, the use of cryptodata in criminal proceedings has been found lawful by successive judges, following the OM." He declined to comment further on the matter.
Ridouan Taghi submitted a written statement denying that he has had any involvement in the murders of the brother of key prosecution witness Nabil B., his lawyer Derk Wiersum, and crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was advising B. He said he also had nothing to do with the threats against Princess Amalia. Taghi is not formally accused as a suspect in those cases, but it has been repeatedly suggested that he was behind the crimes.
Taghi, now 44 years of age, was extensively heard as a witness in the heavily secured courtroom in Amsterdam-Osdorp on Friday. He testified in the criminal case against his cousin and former lawyer, Youssef T. The family member and attorney is suspected of several crimes, including the development of plans to break Taghi out of prison. Taghi is being held in pretrial detention at the maximum security penitentiary in Vught (EBI). T. was also alleged to have been the messenger between Taghi and his criminal contacts in the outside world.
All untrue, Taghi repeated several times. "Youssef is honest, has integrity and is naive. I dragged him into what has happened." Taghi was playing "games," he told the judge, and now Youssef has now become "the victim." He stated, "I was convinced I was being bugged. That's why I started telling ridiculous stories." Authorities are generally forbidden from eavesdropping on contact between an attorney and their client, and the conversations may not be recorded.
Taghi stood up on behalf of his cousin. "Youssef belongs with his children. Because of me he ended up in this misery. He has not done anything criminal." Taghi did not want to answer every question put to him, and answered none of the questions from the Public Prosecution Service.
On Friday, the Public Prosecution Service demanded seven years in prison against former lawyer Youssef Taghi (39), the cousin of Ridouan Taghi. According to the judiciary, Youssef Taghi was the indispensable link in his cousin's criminal organization.
According to the OM, Youssef Taghi was not only part of the criminal organization led by his cousin, but his role was crucial in its continuation after Taghi ended up in the EBI in December 2019. He ensured that the organization could continue to run and also earned money from it, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
Youssef Taghi assisted Ridouan as a lawyer for several months. From March 2021 he often visited his cousin in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. According to the OM, Youssef was guilty of "a range of serious offenses", including a violent escape attempt from the EBI. The fact that Taghi was involved in criminal activities as a lawyer sees the judiciary as aggravating the sentence.
Youssef Taghi is also said to have smuggled out messages from his cousin . As a result, according to the Public Prosecution Service, Ridouan Taghi could continue to manage his criminal organization from prison. The OM says that Youssef Taghi's role went beyond that of an errand boy.
The criminal organization responsible for the murder of Peter R. de Vries is said to have had plans to kidnap Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The protected (Polish) witness (called “Eddy” in the file) says he heard this from Krystian M., who is suspected of directing the murder of De Vries. NU.nl writes this based on a statement that has been viewed by the website.
Eddy 's statements play an important role in the trial of the suspects in the murder of the crime journalist. Eddy (also presented as “witness 5089”) links the executors of the liquidation to the criminal organization of Ridouan Taghi.
In an interrogation last month, Eddy said that there were also plans to kidnap Rutte. He said that he was told by Krystian M., shortly after the murder of De Vries. Two months after the death of the crime journalist in July 2021, the prime minister was given extra security due to threat. 'Spotters' are said to have been seen in the vicinity of Rutte.
In the Antwerp district of Merksem, an eleven-year-old girl died on Monday evening when a house was shot at. That's what the local police say. “This has all the appearance of a settlement within the drug environment,” says Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever. The child shot dead is the niece of a 'wealthy Antwerp drug criminal'.
Antwerp has been crazy lately.
A building belonging to the Antwerp family EH has been hit by drug violence twelve times, the last time that happened on Monday night. The family has been the target of drug criminals for more than three years now. The Gazet van Antwerpen wrote a short profile of the two brothers Naim and Ilias, who made it from street dealers to players in international cocaine smuggling.
Several people were arrested by the police on the A27 on Tuesday morning after a boy (15) was kidnapped in Amsterdam. In the Tweede Jan Steenstraat in Amsterdam, a 15-year-old boy was forcibly taken away on Tuesday morning. He was liberated again on the A27.
At around 8:40 am, the police in Amsterdam received a report that a boy was being pushed into a van by several people in the De Pijp district, in Amsterdam South. The police managed to trace the van on the A27 near Groenekan and the car got stuck. The police started a "talk-out procedure" in which warning shots were fired.
The boy was found physically unharmed and freed. Three men were arrested: a 36-year-old man from Weesp, a 35-year-old man from Amsterdam and a 29-year-old man from Almere. The suspects have been taken to the police station and taken into custody. The arrested suspects are in restraints. This means that they may only have contact with their lawyer. For that reason, the police do not want to provide more information at this time.
In the hunt for two very violent leaders of the Dutch cocaine mafia, the Amsterdam police are asking for the help of the public. As of Tuesday, the two fugitives are among the most wanted criminals in the Netherlands.
It concerns the Dutch Moroccans Fahd El Kandoussi (38) and Mohammed Kadjouh (46), who have both been placed on the National Most Wanted List of the national police since Monday evening. The police do not only want to arrest them because they are suspected of being involved in the coke trade, but are also associated with kidnappings and shootings.
According to the police, Mohammed Kadjouh may be staying in Dubai or Morocco. According to the judiciary, he heads a global drug network together with El Kandoussi. They are suspected of importing thousands of kilograms of coke. The police found out in the investigation that they both lead a very luxurious life and own very expensive real estate and valuable goods from premium brands.
The criminal Ronald de Jong, also known as 'Red Ron', who grew up in Amsterdam, died on Thursday at the age of 60. He had been ill for some time, his family reported to the ANP.
In the early 1990s, De Jong earned a lot of money trading large quantities of drugs, which he transported as a driver. The police and judiciary let these and other drug transports through in order to penetrate to the top of the criminal organization with leaders such as Mink K. and Stanley Hillis.
This matter became known as the IRT Affair. It caused a lot of commotion in 1993 because police officers also turned out to be dealing in drugs and could keep the millions they earned for themselves. The parliamentary inquiry into the controversial investigative methods, led by PvdA politician Maarten van Traa, produced a damning verdict in 1996 and led to stricter legislation.
De Jong then became embroiled in legal proceedings about laundering the money he had earned from the drug trade. He was acquitted of that. In 2018, the Public Prosecution Service appealed against the acquittal.
TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2023 - 17:15 Italian police arrest Dutch drug crime fugitive at Lake Garda villa Police from the province of Brescia, Italy arrested a Dutch fugitive who had been hiding out in a luxury villa. The man was taken into custody at the home in Desenzano, a holiday town along the southwestern shore of Lake Garda where fewer than 30,000 people reside.
The suspect was not identified, but authorities said in a statement that he was wanted by international authorities for the production and distribution of narcotics. Dutch police issued a European arrest warrant for the man in December, saying he is also a suspected money launderer. His arrest was announced in Italy on Monday.
Hunt for Bolle Jos: mother and sister of top criminal arrested Today at 12:30 • Updated today at 22:51
On Tuesday, the police sought information about his whereabouts from relatives of the wanted top criminal Jos Leijdekkers from Breda. Houses and an office in Breda, Prinsenbeek and Rotterdam, among others, were searched. During the action, the police arrested two women aged 68 and 27. It concerns the mother and a sister of the top criminal.
The two are suspected of laundering criminal money. According to the Public Prosecution Service, they probably accepted money and expensive gifts, knowing that they had been paid for with crime money. The two are still detained and are being questioned by detectives from the National Criminal Investigation Department about the suspicions against them.
The parents and a sister of Leijdekkers, alias Bolle Jos, traveled to Turkey in August and December last. There, according to the Public Prosecution Service, they may have had contact with their wanted son and brother, who is suspected of large-scale cocaine trafficking and excessive violence.
Watches, jewelry and handbags During the various searches on Tuesday, valuable watches and other jewelry, expensive handbags and large amounts of money were seized. This concerns tens of thousands of euros in cash and other large amounts of money in foreign currency.
In addition to the said valuables and cash, mobile telephones, USB sticks and other data carriers, computers, cameras and photos were also seized. These items are examined for clues regarding the whereabouts of Leijdekkers. During the searches, investigators also found two fake German passports.
75,000 euros for golden tip A reward of 75,000 euros was offered last year for the golden tip that leads to the arrest of Leijdekers.
Bolle Jos has probably been staying in Turkey for a long time. He is seen as one of the key players in the international cocaine trade. He is also suspected of large-scale laundering of the criminal proceeds of his drug trade. According to the judiciary, this would involve tens of millions of euros and hundreds of kilos of gold that were probably earned from the cocaine trade.
On 3 May last year, the 31-year-old top criminal was placed on the National Investigation List and the 'EU Most Wanted List'.
Justice: His laconic response to intercepted coke shows that Gregory F. was a serious player
Justice demands 9 years in prison for Gregory F. (49) because of the import of about 1700 kilos of cocaine by the suspected business relation of Ridouan Taghi. This is in accordance with the process agreements that have been made with him, but F. still hopes that the court will impose one year less.
Gregory F. has reached a settlement of 2.25 million euros with the Public Prosecution Service.
F. had been involved in the import of cocaine from 2015 to 2020 via the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. The suspicion against F. is based on four drug shipments. The two other suspects are suspected of being involved in two drug transports in 2015.
During the period under investigation, F. maintained contacts with the supplier of the batches of cocaine, according to the Public Prosecution Service. His co-defendants assisted him in transporting, extracting the cocaine and further distributing the drugs. F. was arrested on September 19, 2021 in Curacao, where he temporarily stayed. Presumably he lived in Suriname before that time.
Security agencies in the Netherlands have failled according to a new report.
This is pretty big here!
The police and OM missed many clues to the murder of Wiersum and Peter R. de Vries.Independent research proves that the police were warned several times about the murder of Peter R. de Vries, lawyer Derk Wiersum and the brother of the key witness, but internal blunders did not lead to better security. In a new report, the Dutch Safety Board exposes system errors that allowed the gang of alleged top criminal Ridouan Taghi to strike again and again. The OVV report describes in detail the contacts between security officials from various government services and the three men leading up to their deaths. This shows various system errors.
In Spain, the Guardia Civil arrested a Dutchman who was wanted here for drug trafficking. That happened on Thursday near the coastal town of Burriana, just above Valencia, on the AP-7 highway. The Guardia Civil carried out a traffic control there. After checking the documentation of the vehicle and that of the occupants, it turned out that a 53-year-old man was wanted in the Netherlands because he still has to serve a sentence for drug offenses.
A court in North Holland convicted the man in the spring of 2020 of exporting drugs to the United Kingdom. This involved 201 kilograms of cocaine, 150 kilograms of MDMA (the active substance in ecstasy pills), and 150,000 ecstasy pills.
The Dutchman will be taken to Madrid where a judge must approve his extradition to the Netherlands.
If it is up to the judiciary, Henk Rommy, better known as 'the Black Cobra', will spend 22 years in prison for giving the order for the double murder of Henie Shamel and his girlfriend Anne de Witte. The public prosecutor made the demand in the presence of the suspect, who insists that he is innocent of the murder of the well-known diamond dealer and drug trafficker in Antwerp.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the statements of key witness Giuseppe La Serpe are an important part of the evidence. The criminal made the statements in 2006. Other suspects in the murder of Shamel and De Witte were convicted partly on the basis of that evidence. Justice does not see him as a co-perpetrator, because he was in Maarssen at the time of the double murder. But according to the prosecutor, he is guilty of incitement.
Jesse R. and Moppie R. would have worked for Henk Rommy. They were both convicted of, among other things, the double murder in Antwerp. Crown witness La Serpe would have heard from Jesse R. that liquidating was cheaper for Rommy than paying.
On Friday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) demanded life in prison against Saïd Razzouki, the alleged right-hand man of Ridouan Taghi, in the extensive Marengo assassinations trial. Among other things, R. is suspected of involvement in several murders and attempted murders and of leading a criminal organization. The OM described it as a “completely unscrupulous organization.” Razzouki (50) was in court to hear the demand. He mainly looked the other way while the public prosecutor made the closing statement. “Ridiculous,” he said after the OM made its sentence demand. Taghi is seen as the person who ordered the murders. Razzouki would arrange shooters and spotters. The OM already entered sentence demands against the other suspects in the Marengo case in the middle of last year, including life sentences for Taghi and four other suspects. The case against Razzouki is behind the rest partly because he was arrested in Colombia only after the criminal case had already started. He was arrested in Colombia in February 2020 and extradited to the Netherlands in December 2021. Razzouki changing lawyers also delayed the process. The lawyers representing the other suspects in the Marengo case have all completed their pleas. His lawyers will likely have their turn in May. The court plans to rule in October.
Some say Razzouki was the real boss. Razzouki was born in Morocco in Beni Touzine. He has older and younger siblings, the eldest sister of whom is about thirteen years older. His mother died in 1994, after which his father remarried. In the Netherlands, the large family lived mainly in Utrecht, but also in Groningen. As far as is known, Razzouki has two children, with a large age difference. From the Netherlands, Razzouki fled to Colombia, where he hid for several years. In Medellin he enjoyed the protection of the cartel Clan del Golfo. The investigative authorities saw his daughter, whom he was very fond of, as a weak spot. The authorities hoped to find him through her.
The Razzouki's are a huge family yeah. They have cousins all over the Netherlands and Belgium.
Also France i think, the Ait Touzine are a Riffian tribe from the Rif Mountains of northeastern Morocco. Nowadays a large number of the Ait Touzine are living in Europe as a result of the migration in the 1970s. Most of them moved to the Netherlands and Belgium.
Appeal court upholds 30 year jail terms for lawyer murder ] CrimeSociety February 23, 2023
Flowers outside Derk Wiersum’s office. Photo: DutchNews.nl Appeal court judges have upheld the 30 year sentences imposed on two men who murdered lawyer Derk Wiersum, despite the public prosecution’s call for life. Giërmo B (37) and Moreno B (32), who both claimed to have an alibi for the shooting, were first convicted in 2021 on the grounds of DNA and telephone evidence, and the fact they both had large amounts of money shortly after the murder. Wiersum was acting for Nabil B, a key witness in a major drugs and murder trial revolving around gang leader Ridouan Taghi, when he was killed near his home in Buitenveldert, Amsterdam in 2019. Taghi is one of 17 people currently standing trial in Amsterdam accused of ordering six murders and another seven attempted killings between 2015 and 2017.
Dark phase The killing of Wiersum was described at the time as a ‘new, dark phase’ in the increasingly deadly underworld drug wars and prompted justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus to pledge tough new measures against drug criminals. At the moment life prisoners become eligible for parole after 25 years, when they can take their case to a special panel that assesses their behaviour and development in prison, the risk of re-offending and the impact their release could have on victims and their relatives. The final say rests with the minister for legal protection but last year the Dutch sentencing council RSJ said the ministerial role should be scrapped.
Godfather Piet S. calls himself referee for criminal groups: 'I'm done with prison'
The mega-trial against the 'The Hague godfather' Piet S. and his accomplices in the drug world begins in the court in The Hague. The Public Prosecution Service has been investigating the 'Taxus' case for four years now. The 66-year-old S. is said to be one of the biggest drug lords in the Netherlands, who managed to stay under the radar for years. More than twenty suspects have been arrested, partly because agents were able to read the encrypted messages from communication service Encrochat. I have not been involved in drug trafficking in recent years, he stated on Monday morning during the first day of the substantive treatment of the case against him. After his last prison sentence, around 2008, he thought it was 'enough' in prison. "I'm kind of done with it." In his own words, he was a kind of mediator, a referee, for criminal groups.
Yab Yum , the world-famous brothel that once flourished on Amsterdam's Singel, will never reopen. Still, the fight over property rights continues in court between former Hells Angel boss Harrie Stoeltie and his brother-in-law and owner Hennie Vitalli. It's possible Holleeder will mediate from the EBI in the family feud.
'Cybercrime increases the impact of traditional crime' March 9, 2023
The influence of cybercrime will increase the trade in drugs, people and weapons in Amsterdam. The police are not yet well prepared for this.
Impact This is evident from the presentation of the crime figures by the Amsterdam triangle, which the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool reports on Thursday .
According to the police and the mayor, cybercrime's greater reach increases the impact of 'traditional' crime such as the trade in drugs, people and weapons. According to the triangle, that shift will continue.
Insight The police say they are not yet well equipped for this. Too few detectives are trained in the field of cybercrime and the police do not have the latest ICT resources and techniques.
Police officers and employees of the Public Prosecution Service are therefore being trained in their expertise in this area, according to the newspaper. This should also help them to gain a better understanding of the digital environment of young criminals.
record low In addition to these figures, the police confirmed that Amsterdam had a record low in the number of deaths from violence in 2022. There were no assassinations in Amsterdam last year.
Lawyers key witness Nabil. B are no longer with him Updated 12 min ago 18 minutes ago in INTERIOR
AMSTERDAM - Crown witness Nabil B. is without lawyers. Peter Schouten and Onno de Jong have put down the defense of the key witness in the mega-liquidation process Marengo.
Nabil B. announced this to the court on Tuesday. The key witness was supposed to be heard in the case of one of the main suspects in the trial, Saïd Razzouki. Nabil B. only wants to explain the reason for his lawyers' departure behind closed doors.
Lawyer Onno de Jong does not want to confirm or deny the news and invokes professional secrecy.
Commando linked to Taghi was pivotal in setting up a new special unit For years, the commando that links the Public Prosecution Service to criminal Ridouan Taghi played a pioneering role in a new reconnaissance unit of the army. The soldier, Sil A., is now on trial for arms and drug trafficking. The case will be dealt with behind closed doors at the request of the defense. According to the court, a public hearing of the case could jeopardize the safety of the suspect and other employees of the Commando Forces Corps.
Alleged heir of Taghi, Gregory F. got nine years in Amsterdam few days ago after sweet deal with procecutors, he was convicted of the import of 1800 kilos coke and leading a criminal organization.
Henk Rommy (72), alias “De Zwarte Cobra”, was acquitted on Friday by the court in Amsterdam of commissioning the double murder in Antwerp in 1993, where drug trafficker Henie Shamel and his girlfriend were killed. The OM demanded 22 years in prison last month .
The court says it sees indications of Rommy's involvement, but finds the evidence insufficient. Rommy's lawyer Mark Teurlings says he is 'very happy' with the acquittal 'after 22 years of work and waiting'.
The Rotterdam court has provisionally released the Surinamese drug lord Piet Wortel. In the case, W. is suspected of two liquidations and involvement in large-scale cocaine trafficking. The Rotterdam court sees insufficient evidence to keep Wortel in pre-trial detention any longer. He remains suspicious. Lawyer Ruud van Boom asked the judge to lift the pre-trial detention because there is no evidence, except 'gossip'. For example, there is anonymous information that professional football player Quincy Promes would have done business with W.
Commando linked to Taghi was pivotal in setting up a new special unit For years, the commando that links the Public Prosecution Service to criminal Ridouan Taghi played a pioneering role in a new reconnaissance unit of the army. The soldier, Sil A., is now on trial for arms and drug trafficking. The case will be dealt with behind closed doors at the request of the defense. According to the court, a public hearing of the case could jeopardize the safety of the suspect and other employees of the Commando Forces Corps.
According to his lawyer Dutch intelligence services abandoned him he has worked for them for years and is now in trouble.
As of 1 April, the Dutch Minister of Justice will ban 100 types of chemical substances that are regarded as precursors for the production of Amphetamine and MDMA.
Sil A. (44), the commando suspected of arms and drug trafficking and linked by the judiciary to Ridouan Taghi's network, was himself involved in plans in 2019 to eliminate Taghi in Dubai, according to his lawyer. That writes the Algemeen Dagblad .
According to A.'s lawyer Michael Ruperti, this is the only link his client has with Taghi, he said during the hearing of the criminal case on Monday. According to Ruperti, commando Sil A. is still surprised that he is associated with Taghi by the judiciary. 'My client suffers from being constantly linked to Taghi. He doesn't know him personally and doesn't think anything of this man.'
Secret operation Shortly after his arrest in February 2022, A. would have said that in 2019 he was only involved in preparing the secret plan to pick up Taghi and possibly eliminate him in Dubai or Iran. The plan is said to have been discussed with employees of the secret services, among others.
A. had his doubts about an operation in Iran, but in Dubai – where Taghi was eventually arrested – he certainly saw possibilities. It would have been the first time that the Commando Forces Corps had actually been deployed to take out Taghi in the deepest secrecy in another country.
Detectives from the national unit of the National Police arrested a 29-year-old Dutch man in the Penitentiary Institution Veenhuizen on Monday on suspicion of involvement in the attack on the life of Peter R. de Vries on July 6, 2021. The man was in Veenhuizen a sentence of five years in prison for dealing in hard drugs and firearms. A total of nine suspects have now been arrested in the investigation.
Crime reporter Peter R. de Vries was shot in Amsterdam on July 6, 2021. He died nine days later. According to the national prosecutor's office of the Public Prosecution Service, the man who was arrested on Monday is probably part of the criminal organization that was involved in the murder of De Vries, among other things.
Dennis G., Taghi's contact, arrested in the Dominican Republic April 17, 2023
Dutchman Dennis G. (47) was arrested in the Dominican Republic on Saturday, who is seen by the investigative services as a criminal contact of Ridouan Taghi. G. would be seen as a childhood friend of Taghi and one of the last criminal contacts around his organization, who was still at large. That writes De Telegraaf.
Following a Dutch extradition request, the Public Prosecution Service in the Dominican Republic, in collaboration with the drug control service Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas (DNCD), tracked down and arrested the Dutchman.
Large-scale cocaine trade Dennis G., alias “Rasta”, is seen by the Public Prosecution Service and the National Criminal Investigation Department as an important player in the international cocaine trade. He would use criminal contacts in both the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands, including corrupt port employees.
Ennetcom According to the OM, decrypted Ennetcom messages show that G. is probably involved in cocaine shipments of 985 and 522 kilos, which were seized in Colombia in 2015. G. would be the owner of the packages of cocaine, which were stamped with his nickname "Rasta". He is also said to be involved in a transport of 47 kilos of cocaine, which was intercepted in Great Britain in 2015.
Decrypted messages from SkyECC have given rise to suspicion that he was also involved in the import of hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the Netherlands in 2019 and 2020.
Luxurious villa Dennis G. spent years in the Dominican Republic. He was already arrested there in 2015 in connection with the discovery of cocaine in his home and was held in custody for some time. According to the most recent investigative information, he lived in a luxury villa in Santo Domingo. It is not yet known when he will be extradited to the Netherlands.
The Netherlands does not have an extradition treaty with the Dominican Republic, but suspects are sometimes extradited, as happened in January 2022, for example, with the Dutchman Cor P. , who survived an assassination attempt in the Dominican Republic.
Man...the media keeps on insisting to use the term "Mocro mafia". Meanwhile when you take a look at the guys arrested there's one native Dutch, one Surinamese and one Curaçaoan guy. There's no "Mocro mafia". These are just drug trafficking organizations based in the Netherlands. Some are Moroccan, some are native Dutch, some are Surinamese or Curaçaoan. And they're all locked in a constant shifting of alliances and rivalries.
Man...the media keeps on insisting to use the term "Mocro mafia". Meanwhile when you take a look at the guys arrested there's one native Dutch, one Surinamese and one Curaçaoan guy. There's no "Mocro mafia". These are just drug trafficking organizations based in the Netherlands. Some are Moroccan, some are native Dutch, some are Surinamese or Curaçaoan. And they're all locked in a constant shifting of alliances and rivalries.
100% some journalists wrote a book years ago with the title "Mocro Maffia" and other media and even a TV series are using it but it doesn't do them justice. One of the journalsts almost regretted they used the term.
I thought this was funny.
Mocromafia is now called 'Mafia with a migration background' Name had acquired negative connotations
April 4, 2018 by Rudolf Julius
The Mocromafia changes its name to 'mafia with a migration background'. According to leader Saïd R., the old name had acquired a negative connotation.
“We received many e-mails from people who had a bad taste because of the term 'Mocro'. We wanted to get rid of that. We do not want people to get an unpleasant feeling because of our organization,” said R. in a statement.
The Surinamese and Curaçaoans are actually stronger than the Moroccans, because of their close links to Colombia and their big diaspora here in Holland.
Top criminal lawyer Inez Weski (68) was arrested on Friday. She is suspected of passing on information from her client Ridouan Taghi from the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught to the outside world. That writes De Telegraaf.
Weski would have been arrested in Rotterdam. She is locked in and is being interrogated.
The investigation of the Public Prosecution Service into Weski has been going on for some time and was started in response to decrypted messages from PGP telephones, which, according to the judiciary, show that she may have passed on information from Ridouan Taghi to relatives of Taghi.
The Public Prosecution Service has informed the Dean of the Bar Association of Weski's arrest.
They had already enough leads last year, why is she arrested now? Two days after Taghi and his lawyer took the Dutch state to court. They accuse the state of an alleged plan to kidnap or kill Taghi in Dubai.
Top criminal lawyer Inez Weski (68) was arrested on Friday. She is suspected of passing on information from her client Ridouan Taghi from the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught to the outside world. That writes De Telegraaf.
Weski would have been arrested in Rotterdam. She is locked in and is being interrogated.
The investigation of the Public Prosecution Service into Weski has been going on for some time and was started in response to decrypted messages from PGP telephones, which, according to the judiciary, show that she may have passed on information from Ridouan Taghi to relatives of Taghi.
The Public Prosecution Service has informed the Dean of the Bar Association of Weski's arrest.
When asked about the latest news, Van den Heuvel says that conversations of criminals who spoke about Weski have been tapped or deciphered. And he again mentions that she is suspected of participating in a criminal organization . “Read: the organization of Ridouan Taghi. And that further indicates the seriousness of the suspicions, because then you are not only a conduit, but you are also really part of that organization.”
Deciphering certain messages has revealed incriminating information about her role. “It shows that she has gone much further – whether or not out of necessity, whether or not under pressure – than what can be expected of a lawyer.”
The crime journalist also says about this possible coercion that other stories also substantiate that Weski was under great pressure from the criminal organization. “That she was actually forced to take steps that she actually didn't want to take at all. And then the story keeps coming that family members, even her son Guy Weski, who is also a lawyer, might even count as some kind of commitment to that criminal organization. If she did not do as instructed, her son or other relatives would be in danger.”
Is that speculative? “I have not seen anything about that in the file, but I have heard a few things about it, and with me also a number of other people,” says Van den Heuvel. He also fears that Weski is not the only lawyer who "feels forced to cooperate with a criminal club".
'Extremely dangerous' nephew of Ridouan Taghi, Anouar, arrested again Anouar Taghi (29) nephew of Ridouan Taghi was arrested again on Friday. He is suspected of drug trafficking. This new suspicion comes on top of the existing suspicion that he led a criminal organization of car thieves - and supplied cars that were used for the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum of star witness Nabil B. To the dismay of the investigative services, the Amsterdam court released Anouar Taghi in April 2021 in the run-up to the substantive hearing of his trial. He is on trial with eight others, as the main suspect. He is considered an extremely dangerous linchpin in Ridouan Taghi's criminal organization. Now new suspicions have arisen on the basis of which the Utrecht man could be arrested again. This arrest fits in with the 'Approach to Criminal Power Structures' (ACM) with which the police and judiciary want to completely dismantle criminal organizations such as those around Ridouan Taghi. Anouar Taghi, always dressed in a three-piece suit, has previously confessed that he rented sheds under a false name where he stored stolen vehicles, but according to him these were 'deal cars'. He says he did not knowingly supply cars that were used for the liquidation of lawyer Derk Wiersum, who was shot dead in front of his house in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert in September 2019.
Mocro Maffia threatens Europe and North Africa Morocco, Belgium and the Netherlands have become pivotal in the growing Latin America-Europe cocaine chain.
Mocro Maffia threatens Europe and North Africa Morocco, Belgium and the Netherlands have become pivotal in the growing Latin America-Europe cocaine chain.
Yeah lots of sensationalist bs in that article. Very poorly researched and it's clear that the writer of that article has never come across anyone involved in the Netherlands- and Belgium-based drug trade. There is no "Mocro Maffia" and there sure as hell is no big "Moroccan cartel". There are families and traffickers based in the Netherland and Belgium that are active in the cocaine trade that are of Moroccan descent. And there's a myriad of different alliances between some of these families and other groups based in the Netherlands and Belgium. And these alliances are constantly shifting.
Based in the Netherlands you have a few Moroccan crime families in Utrecht/Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. You also have some old school Dutch crime bosses from the Utrecht/Amsterdam region and the Rotterdam/Schiedam area. There are a few major Surinamese drug traffickers as well as a very prominent transnational drug trafficking gang based in Curaçao. Last but not least you have about 15 family-based networks from the Dutch "Traveller" underworld based in North Brabant and The Hague. On top of that you have those connected to the biker environment (even though the Hells Angels and Satudarah are officially banned, they're still around unofficially). In Belgium you have a few families of Moroccan origin and a huge Assyrian clan (originally from Southeast Turkey), all of them based in Antwerp.
Of course there are also a lot of international criminal organizations that have set up shop in the Netherlands and Belgium and are active in the cocaine trade as well: Ndrangheta (especially in Limburg), Camorra, Sicilian mafia (especially in Liege), Albanian clans, Serbian/Montenegrin clans, Turkish and Kurdish clans, Irish/British/Scottish organized crime groups...all have their hideouts in the Netherlands as well as Belgium and have used the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam to bring in huge shipments of cocaine. Often in cooperation with groups that are based in the Low Countries.
There's no "Moroccan cartel" and there's no stable "super cartel" either; there's just a myriad of cooperations between Netherlands/Belgium-based networks (of different backgrounds) and international networks (also of different backgrounds).
The Taghi's are almost done now, the Dutch state has enough with those murders of innocent people. For a short while they were really at the top Taghi was untouchable but the dozens of murders backfired on them. Others have already taken over.
The Travellers have been here for centuries they are a nomadic people but the Dutch state put them in about 70 big çamps in the 1950s. Because of the camps they are called also Kampers or caravan dwellers.
Dutch Gaming Authority gives Curaçao gambling mafia too much space MAIN | By Correspondent Dec. 5, 2022 THE HAGUE - The Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA) is not taking enough action against web casinos operating from Curaçao. This is the opinion of the parties that contributed to an evaluation of the KSA over the period 2017-2021. “The picture is that providers in Malta and Curaçao, for example, were and still are given the space to illegally offer their services in the Netherlands,” the report reads.
“Most of the KSA's enforcement actions focused on illegal online offerings. This has also been identified as a priority in the Supervisory Agendas. Nevertheless, market parties and various government organizations believe that combating illegal supply still receives too little attention from the KSA. They believe that the KSA could and can do more about this, for example by urging telecom parties to shut down illegal websites or payment service providers not to provide payment services to illegal providers.”
The KSA itself states that it actively monitors thousands of websites with various online tools. In its own words, it cannot be completely transparent about how the KSA proceeds in combating illegal supply. The KSA wants to prevent illegal providers from being made easier to disrupt and/or evade investigations by the KSA. According to the KSA, this could create the impression in the outside world that the KSA is doing less to combat the illegal supply than is actually the case.
Willemstad has the questionable reputation of being the world capital of the gambling mafia: thousands of web casinos are active on the basis of "illegal" sublicences sold by Curaçao master licensees. A number of operators are directly linked to international criminal organizations that use their gambling companies to launder profits from arms, human and drug trafficking, among other things. Not only the KSA is accused of acting insufficiently, the government in Curaçao does not supervise and the Public Prosecution Service looks away, while there are also doubts about the way in which the Central Bank carries out its supervisory task in the trust sector.
RTL: investigation into Weski focuses on messages between Taghi and Italian mafia
The police are investigating whether the arrested lawyer Inez Weski was a conduit between her client Ridouan Taghi and Raffaele Imperiale, a leader of the Italian mafia. RTL Nieuws reports this based on police sources. It would be about passing on messages about money, intended for Taghi's criminal organization.
Earlier today, Het Parool reported that Weski was pressured by relatives of Taghi to act as a conduit. Taghi is in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught, the most heavily secured prison in the Netherlands.
Taghi and Imperiale were both in hiding in Dubai before their arrests. They would have engaged in cocaine transports there. RTL News has previously reported on money flows between Imperiale and Taghi's family.
Millions According to RTL, Taghi had deposited tens of millions of euros at Imperiale. When Taghi was in the EBI, his organization would have needed parts of that money. A source in the investigation tells the news channel that permission was needed from Taghi himself. According to the source, the police are now investigating whether Weski played a role in that communication.
Weski had received a phone from Taghi's family with the encrypted Sky messaging service, RTL further reports. Het Parool also mentioned such a telephone that would have been provided to the lawyer by Taghi's relatives.
Ridouan Taghi was arrested in Dubai at the end of 2019, Imperiale in the summer of 2021. He is now in jail in Italy.
Defense laid down Inez Weski has been detained since April 21. She's in full restrictions, which means she's only allowed contact with her lawyer.
She has since filed Taghi's defense in the Marengo trial .
There are also reports of communications with the aunt and son of Raffaele Imperiale. Imperiale would have acted as a kind of bank for Taghi and housed tens of millions of euros from Taghi. The police believe that Weski passed on messages that dealt with that money. Earlier Follow the Money and RTL News already reported a money transport of 5 million euros from Italy to the Netherlands that Imperiale and Taghi's son would have chatted about. In December it was announced that he has made a deal with the judiciary in Italy and he would have made statements. They may also concern people from Ridouan Taghi's network. The police could also ask him about his knowledge of how Taghi managed to communicate from the EBI. RTL reports that Imperiale is 'reluctant' to state about Taghi.
The Public Prosecution Service must explain what violence was used during the arrest of 20-year-old Aimane T., a member of the Taghi family who is suspected of trafficking in drugs and weapons and a burglary.
Aimane T. was 3.5 months ago, according to his own words, "completely beaten up" by the police during his arrest "while I cooperated nicely." His lawyer Wesley van Soest says he has photos on which Aimane T. can be seen with two black eyes.
The court also finds that the suspect has the right to be able to listen to the incriminating conversation recordings on which he can be heard, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
By honoring the wishes, the court managed to avert a challenge by lawyer Van Soest. However, it also meant that the substantive hearing of the criminal case scheduled for Wednesday did not take place.
Quran Aimane T., who entered the courtroom armed with thick envelopes containing his file and a Quran, is said to have traded in cocaine and automatic weapons between October 2020 and January 2022, according to the OM. On February 25, 2021, he would also have broken into Culemborg. The loot included two tons of euros, expensive watches, gold bars and securities.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, he conducted his trade using a crypto phone. The police say they recognize his voice in the voice messages that were left for months. However, according to lawyer Van Soest, Aimane T. was not the only one who used the telephone. According to the lawyer, the photos of blocks of cocaine and weapons on the phone also mean nothing. “Anyone can pick that up from Wikipedia.”
Alleged crime boss Ridouan Taghi will defend himself after attorney’s arrest Ridouan Taghi has informed the Amsterdam court that he intends to conduct his own defense in the extensive Marengo criminal proceedings, a source close to the case told ANP. The extensive trial covers a myriad of violent crimes, including assassinations, attempted killings, and murder plots.
Taghi ’s former attorney, Inez Weski, was arrested on April 21. She then resigned as his defense counsel, and was suspended by the Bar Association while her own case works its way through the courts.
Taghi has informed the court that he fully supports and will continue to press all inquiries made by Weski. Among her probes, she has asked the court to further investigate the story of a commando who claims to have been approached with the question about possible options to “neutralise” Taghi, likely used as a euphemism for killing him.
That allegedly happened when Taghi was still a fugitive. He was arrested in Dubai at the end of 2019.
The top lawyers Christian Flokstra and Nico Meijering of the Ficq office stop assisting suspects in criminal cases in which a key witness is used by the judiciary. They said this on Monday morning during a session in the Marengo trial.
The lawyers accuse the Public Prosecution Service of holding on to the key witness as the 'holy grail' in investigations. They also criticize the expansion of the crown witness scheme that the Minister of Justice and Security Dilan Ye?ilgöz-Zegerius wants.
NRC writes that, according to Nico Meijering, it seems that criticism of the content of statements by crown witness Nabil B. in the Marengo trial is undesirable. 'There is no substantive response,' says Meijering. "Or the Public Prosecution Service puts words in our mouths that are not correct, only to conclude that the defense is stating things that are not correct."
It is remarkable that law firm Ficq will no longer assist suspects in criminal cases in which a key witness is central. For example, Christian Flokstra and Nico Meijering assisted various suspects in four criminal cases in which key witnesses played a role. This concerns the three extensive liquidation processes Passage, Eris and Marengo
Five suspects in the murder of Peter R. de Vries were also involved in the serious assault of an ex-brother-in-law of Ridouan Taghi in May 2021. Taghi is said to have ordered this from the EBI in Vught.
Ridouan Taghi's ex -brother-in-law was assaulted by three men with a baseball bat on May 2, 2021. Two days later he was assaulted again. An attempted murder in September 2021 failed.
According to the criminal investigation department, the murder suspects in the De Vries case 'in close cooperation and varying composition' played an important role in 'several attempts to seriously abuse or kill Taghi's ex-brother-in-law'. These would be Kamil E., the Polish driver who drove the getaway car after the murder of De Vries, Taghi's cousin Jaouad F ., Erickson O. (who filmed De Vries after he was shot) and the convicted arms dealer Divainy K. The violence allegedly directed by murder broker Krystian M.
With the new evidence from the criminal investigation department about the abuse, the suspected perpetrators of the murder of De Vries are linked to Taghi for the first time, according to EenVandaag. That the murder of the crime journalist is related to the Taghi case has been suspected for a long time, but hard evidence has been lacking so far.
NOS News • Wednesday, 3:29 PM • AmendedWednesday, 5:02 PM
Research: Italian mafia approach partly useful for the Netherlands
Parts of the Italian anti-mafia legislation can be useful for the Netherlands to better combat organized crime. This emerges from a study by the University of Groningen. The Ministry of Justice and Security had asked for this, because the government wants to know what the Netherlands can learn from the Italian approach to the mafia. Strict laws have been in force there since the 1990s to curb the violence and influence of these criminal organizations.
In the first place, a better crown witness scheme is needed, as this study also underlines. Recently, there has been a lot of criticism of the lack of protection by the government, following the murders surrounding the trial of Ridouan Taghi.
Less room for negotiation In Italy, crown witnesses and their environment are better protected by the government. At the same time, when making deals, there is less room for negotiation for mafia members who want to talk.
"It's take it or leave it there ," says researcher Laura Peters of the University of Groningen. "You have to declare what you know within 180 days. Only then will you enter a protection program."
Protection is not arranged by the Public Prosecution Service, as is still the case in the Netherlands, but by a separate organisation. "That offers us opportunities for improvement," says Peters.
Fragmented approach The crown witness scheme is used much more often in Italy. Last year there were almost 900 crown witnesses in a protection program, in the Netherlands only a few.
Another point for improvement is the overview of criminal investigations and the sharing of information about criminals. In Italy, all investigations into mafia organizations are coordinated nationally by a special department of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
In the Netherlands, the approach to organized crime is fragmented. "We can learn from acting as one front against crime."
Not all relevant But not all Italian anti-mafia laws are useful for the Netherlands. For example, there is already an article of law here to tackle criminal organisations. According to the research, it has not been shown that this does not work.
In Italy, the police have more investigative powers for tackling the mafia, but those powers already exist in the Netherlands.
Furthermore, in Italy there are shortened procedures for mafia trials to limit the number of sessions. This is also less relevant for the Netherlands, because, for example, witnesses here often do not have to be heard at a hearing.
Italy is different Although in recent times Italians have been regularly looked at by administrators in the fight against crime, the situation cannot simply be compared to the Netherlands, the study warns.
"Here we see subversive crime with mafia-like features, but the question is to what extent you can compare that with the Italian mafia," says Peters. "So you can't take over those anti-mafia provisions one-on-one."
According to Peters, it is now necessary to look first at which specific characteristics of organized crime in the Netherlands need to be tackled better and where additional regulations are therefore required. The government will respond to the findings later.
Turkey arrests suspects who are also linked to wanted ‘Bolle Jos’ | Abroad In Turkey, 23 people have been arrested for laundering money earned from cocaine trafficking and other criminal activities, particularly in the Netherlands. They would be confidants of Jos L., also known as ‘Bolle Jos’.
A source confirms this to the ANP after reporting from the AD. Turkish media report that cash, real estate and jewelry were also seized during the operation.
‘Bolle Jos’ is suspected of large-scale trade, import and export of cocaine. He would also be involved in the death of Naima Jillal. She disappeared in October 2019. The police believe she has been the victim of a crime.
The police have been looking for L for some time. He is on the National Investigation List and on the list of the 93 most wanted criminals in Europe. In March, the Public Prosecution Service offered a reward of 200,000 euros for the golden tip that leads to his arrest
Street gangs in Rotterdam are getting bigger and bolder, the port is the main entry port of cocaine in Europe so the local gangs are used to get the stuff out of the port.
The Rotterdam Public Prosecution Service has hired an expert from the United States to help curb youth involvement in the spate of explosives attacks. In the night from Friday to Saturday there was another explosion in Rotterdam, this time on the Goudse Rijweg in Rotterdam East.
According to the police, there was an explosion around 00.30. The damage was not too bad, only a window was damaged and there were no injuries. Police believe the explosion was caused by heavy fireworks. Nothing is known about the perpetrator or perpetrators.
The perpetrators of the dozens of explosions in Rotterdam last year are usually underage boys. The Public Prosecution Service in Rotterdam says in the Algemeen Dagblad that it wants to prevent young people from becoming involved in this type of violence and sliding into serious crime.
Criminologist David M. Kennedy has devised a successful approach for this in the American city of Boston. His method has been used in many other cities, including the Swedish city of Malmö, with positive results.
In Malmö, there was a particular problem with shootings by underage youths. There, the number of shootings decreased by about half as a result of the approach, just as in the other cities where the method has been used.
23 'confidants of Bolle Jos' arrested in Turkey, but where is the most wanted man himself? A mega operation in Turkey last week. The police arrested 23 people, including the brother-in-law of the infamous Jos Leijdekkers. ???? Crime Editorial Panorama 15 Jun. 2023 | 10:17
Last Tuesday, the Turkish investigative services and police took massive action. After an extensive two-year investigation, officers arrested 23 suspects. The actions took place simultaneously in five different Turkish provinces, including Istanbul and Ankara. The detainees are suspected of drug trafficking and money laundering of coke money, which is said to have been earned mainly in the Netherlands and other European countries.
During the large-scale operation, more than four million in cash was seized, as well as precious stones, a gold-plated pistol and even real estate.
'Network of Bolle Jos' Various Turkish (and now also Dutch) media write that the detainees belong to the network of Jos Leijdekkers alias 'Bolle Jos', the most wanted man in the Netherlands. Leijdekkers' brother-in-law was also reported to have been arrested by the Turkish police last Tuesday, sources told AD . The suspects are said to be part of a criminal network, presumably run by the 31-year-old Dutchman.
Where is Jos? The young Brabander Jos Leijdekkers junior is said to have grown into a big boss in the coke world in recent years. He allegedly smuggled the drugs into Europe via the ports in Rotterdam and Antwerp. He is also linked to the mysterious disappearance of Naima Jillal aka the 'Godmother of coke'.
Jos Leijdekkers remained an unknown drug criminal for a long time. Until he ended up on the police National Investigation List as a suspect and was named as the threatener of former Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus. Who is 'Bolle Jos'? And will justice succeed in getting him behind bars in the Netherlands?
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It seems no coincidence that the arrests of the alleged confidants of 'Bolle Jos' took place in Turkey. Leijdekker's alias 'Bolle' or 'Josje Breda' has been on the international wanted list for some time. The alleged drug lord would direct his troops from abroad and is probably hiding in Turkey, as it became clear earlier.
In recent years, he has made trips to that country anyway, the police report. And 'Bolle' may now also be in Turkey again. In 2022, a few relatives traveled there, presumably to visit him. Another place where Leijdekers may be staying is Dubai. He has also been there in recent years.
Italian prize for John van den Heuvel By MAARTEN VAN AALDEREN
Updated Yesterday, 21:04 Yesterday, 20:59 in INTERIOR
ROME - De Telegraaf reporter John van den Heuvel received last weekend the most important Italian international journalistic award, the Premio Ischia Internazionale. Van den Heuvel himself received the prestigious prize on Saturday evening in a central square on the island of Ischia near Naples.
The Ischia Prize was presented to him by the well-known Italian journalist Mario Orfeo, head of news for the state television channel Rai3. He said he was honored to give the prize to Van den Heuvel because he conducts such important research into organized crime.
The motivation of the jury, consisting of top Italian journalists, who had declared Van den Heuvel the winner of the prize, was:
“Van den Heuvel is seriously threatened with death by the Mocro-mafia, the criminal network. He has described the international drug trade from the inside and has researched organized crime around the world, from Colombia, a key point in the drug world, to Turkey. With his research, he has proven drug traffic by getting through to the most powerful mafias in the world.”
The Italian press was very interested in Van den Heuvel and he had to speak to several journalists. Van den Heuvel, in turn, said he was honored to have received this important prize. He said that the Netherlands can learn a lot from Italy in several areas. Not only in the field of football, but certainly also in the field of combating organized crime. "I hope that the Netherlands and Italy will cooperate well in combating crime," said Van den Heuvel to the audience, which spontaneously applauded.
Bolle Jos’s right-hand man arrested in Turkey: report The police in Turkey arrested Isaac B., the alleged right-hand man of wanted Dutch cocaine trafficker Jos Leijdekkers, in Turkey on Sunday, “various well-informed sources” told Parool.
B., 29, has been a fugitive for some time. In December 2022, a Dutch court sentenced him to 12 years in prison for leading the criminal investigation that imported 5,700 kilograms of cocaine to the Netherlands and laundered 6.5 million euros. In February 2023, a court in Belgium sentenced him to another six years in prison for leading a criminal organization that shot at a rival’s restaurant in Antwerp.
According to Parool, the authorities consider B. the right-hand man of Jos Leijdekkers, better known as “Bolle Jos.” The 31-year-old man from Breda is one of the Netherlands’ most wanted fugitives. The Dutch authorities want him for large-scale cocaine trafficking and involvement in several assassinations.
Leijdekkers is suspected to be hiding in Turkey. Earlier this month, the Turkish authorities raided multiple addresses and arrested 23 suspects in an operation targeting Leijdekkers’ organization/
In addition to Isaac B, Jurean Anthony F. (31), also a Dutchman, was arrested.
According to information released by the Turkish police, the investigation in Turkey against Jos Leijdekkers started two years ago. One of Leijdekkers' contacts in Turkey is said to be Naci Y., who was arrested two weeks ago.
F. was arrested on Friday, including with firearms and fake passports, accompanied by two Turkish men.
The follow-up investigation showed that B. and his wife should be in Mu?la, a town on the west coast of Turkey near Rhodes. In Mu?la it was established that B. was in Isparta, a city several hundred kilometers north of Antalya. B. was arrested there on Sunday , together with Ömer K. and Murat P..
Later, Ali C., Talha A. and Kenan T. were also arrested during a raid in Konya. The last five are Dutch citizens of Turkish descent from Rotterdam.
A total of 34 people have now been arrested in the Turkish investigation into Jos Leijdekkers.
'Record catch of cocaine in Uruguay from Bolle Jos' July 1, 2023
A record cocaine catch in 2019 in Uruguay of 4418 kilos , according to a police file held by Het Parool, belonged to the group of “Bolle” Jos Leijdekkers. It concerned cocaine that was hidden in four containers with soybean meal, and should have been on its way from Montevideo to the port of Lomé in Togo.
Het Parool writes that the criminal investigation department attributes a PGP message about this to Jos Leijdekkers: 'Have those Togo lost 4000st pff' (…) 'Hard blow.'
That catch was in December 2019. In that same month, according to the file, the group lost 316 kilos in Rotterdam and another batch that would have been lost at sea. Leijdekkers is also said to have communicated about those with co-suspects, including Ocean S. and Isaac B. .
B. and S. have been convicted of large-scale cocaine trafficking and are both imprisoned. Jos Leijdekkers is internationally recognized. B. was recently arrested in Turkey.
The suspects do not seem to be too concerned about the losses, which were worth well over 100 million euros.
Dead Hague shooting last year also shot in Rotterdam June 24, 3:26 PM • 2 minutes reading time
A 41-year-old man who was injured in a shooting in Rotterdam-Zevenkamp last year was shot dead in his car in The Hague on Friday evening. In July last year, the man was also shot in his car, but was only injured on his foot. "I think that the shooter from then did not get his money and now had to complete the job," his brother Ibrahim tells Omroep West. A local resident saw everything happen, he tells Omroep West on Saturday . "A motorcycle came with a white license plate. The man in the car was hit. The motorcycle cut him off. Then three shots were fired and they took off." It is believed that two different shooters fired. The emergency services rushed to the scene, but could no longer do anything for Murat, who had been shot. He died on the spot from his injuries. A brother and Murat's father take a look at Wenckebachstraat in The Hague the day after the shooting. "I didn't sleep all night," said the victim's father. "My father wants more information, but he doesn't get it," adds his youngest son Ibrahim. "That's why we're here." The family suspects that this is a settlement due to a quarrel over money and that the order was given from Turkey. "We already filed a report in January because my son is in danger," says his father. "He was threatened, we were threatened." But the police would not have taken any action. Complete job Almost a year ago, Murat aan de Dieze in Rotterdam-Zevenkamp was also shot from a car. Murat himself was also in his car at the time, but survived the shooting despite the many bullets. "In Rotterdam, on July 16. But my brother was hit in the foot and survived," says Ibrahim. This time Murat was not so lucky. After the fatal shooting in The Hague, the police immediately started a major investigation. Multiple units were deployed to find the perpetrators. Despite the massive effort, the suspects have not yet been found.
'Nabil B. lied a lot during the Marengo trial' (UPDATE) July 6, 2023
Marengo suspect Saïd Razzouki denies ever ordering anyone to be killed. He stated this on Thursday morning in the conclusion of his case before the court in Amsterdam. That writes De Telegraaf.
Razzouki was given the last word on Thursday in the finalization of his case. According to court reporter Saskia Belleman, he did so 'stuttering', because he would not have a good command of Dutch. His lawyers had written down his last statement. "I never ordered anyone killed or paid money to kill anyone."
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Razzouki was the right hand of main suspect Ridouan Taghi, but he denied this in court. "I have nothing to do with Mr. Taghi."
According to Razzouki, key witness Nabil B. "lied a lot" during the trial. Razzouki says he doesn't know B. well. 'I didn't even know his last name. In the period that he claims to have met me, I was in Spain', De Telegraaf notes.
The 50-year-old Razzouki thought that the judges were on the side of the star witness, which made it "no point" for him to ask questions. If convicted he will be sentenced to life in prison for involvement in multiple murders and attempted murder.
Het Parool will also report on the session on Thursday . Razzouki had prepared two pages as his last word, the Amsterdam newspaper saw: 'After he had recited that, he came up with all kinds of accusations against the crown witness, also to the visible surprise of his lawyers Mark Dunsbergen and Robert van 't Land .'
According to Razzouki, the key witness wanted him to put his brother in contact with prime suspect Ridouan Taghi, so that they could get involved in drugs together. 'I didn't do that, but maybe the key witness thinks that Taghi didn't want to have contact with him and that's why he's angry with Taghi. Maybe that's why he made those statements.'
On the first day of his hearing in the 2021 Marengo trial, Razzouki was emotional and difficult to follow. It was striking when key witness B. said that Saïd Razzouki was mainly involved in drug trafficking and not in murders.
Shooting leaves one man dead at Eindhoven trailer park A shooting at a mobile home park in Eindhoven on Monday afternoon left one person dead. The man was shot shortly before 3 p.m., but the seriously wounded man was pronounced dead from his injuries less than 45 minutes later, police said. There were no immediate arrests made.
The Heezerweg trailer park and the forest next to it were part of a three-year drug trafficking investigation that led to searches of eight different homes at the trailer park, and raids in buildings in Málaga and Marbella in Spain, as well as properties in Noord-Holland, Noord-Brabant, and Limburg, police said in October 2019.
The municipality of Eindhoven previously said they wanted to shut the mobile home grounds because of safety concerns, Omroep Brabant said
"proposing to his girlfriend in a packed courtroom "
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Eleven years in prison for “Prince of the Eindhoven underworld” July 13, 2023
Eleven years in prison for “Prince of the Eindhoven underworld” The court in Den Bosch sentenced fourteen suspects on Thursday for their involvement in a criminal organization involved in the large-scale production of synthetic drugs. Among other things, they made amphetamine at five locations in Limburg, Belgium and Germany. The leader, 33-year-old Harry P. from Bergeijk, receives the highest sentence with eleven years in prison. The OM demanded thirteen years in prison against him at the end of May.
Pgp chats From May 2020, the police investigated the criminal organization and in the course of the investigation obtained data from crypto communication services (EncroChat, SkyECC and ANOM). As a result, more and more factual information emerged. In November 2021, this led to a day of action, in which several suspects were arrested. A number of suspects also came into the picture later.
Preparatory actions In varying compositions, the men committed preparatory acts for the production of amphetamine and raw materials for drugs (precursors), such as BMK. This happened at locations in Tegelen and Eygelshoven (Limburg), Lanaken (Belgium) and Kassel and Ruppach-Goldhausen (Germany).
undisputed leader According to the court, Harry P. from Bergeijk was the undisputed leader of the organization. He was in control and directed everyone directly or indirectly. He made sure that he himself remained out of the picture of the police and the judiciary by not entering production and transhipment locations and not communicating with the telephones present at those locations.
He had a co-defendant act as an intermediary. P. wanted to be continuously informed about the ins and outs of the drug labs and the amounts of amphetamine that were imported to the Netherlands. It was he who determined when and where work was done. He also arranged and paid for the goods and raw materials used for drug production.
Pride According to the court, Harry P. was proud of what he achieved. He called himself 'the prince of the Eindhoven underworld'. His behavior during the handling of his criminal case before the court also fits the position he took. He took the stage by proposing to his girlfriend in a packed courtroom . This is – the court rules – not only playful, but also the behavior of a proud leader.
In addition, he kept looking for new possibilities and locations. Until his arrest, he was building a drug lab in Zonnebeke in Belgium.
As leader of the organization, the court sentenced him to eleven years in prison. The other members of the criminal organization received prison sentences ranging from three to ten years.
Former Hells Angels leader Lysander de R. arrested in prison
Former Hells Angels leader Lysander de R. was arrested in his cell last Monday, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) confirms after reporting in De Telegraaf . He is suspected of participating in a criminal organization with the aim of committing violent crimes.
It concerns the Hardliners motorcycle club, of which he is the leader and founder, according to the Public Prosecution Service. De R. founded the club from prison in 2019, while he was imprisoned for leading part of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, among other things.
The foundation of MC Hardliners took place a few days before the official ban on motorcycle club Hells Angels. De R. did this consciously, he said at the time. In his own words, he did not want to be discouraged or held back by anyone.
In 2018, De R. was sentenced to nine years in prison. He is in the final phase of his detention and should be allowed to stay partly outside the prison. To prevent him from committing criminal offenses again, he is being held in detention, the OM says.
Notorious De R. led the most notorious chapter of the Hells Angels in Haarlem. Members of the department were convicted of extortion, assault and threats, among other things. Two mayors had to be heavily protected.
In 2021, De R. had to be urgently transferred from his cell in Zaanstad, because he allegedly intimidated prison staff. He would have led a reign of terror in prison. Staff and fellow detainees would have been terrified of him.
Suspicious commando: "Terrible and dangerous that I am wrongly linked to Taghi" August 26, 2023
Sil A. (44), the commando who is suspected of arms and drug trafficking, says in an interview with Het Parool that he finds it 'terrible and dangerous' that he is 'wrongly linked to Ridouan Taghi by the judiciary'.
Elite unit For many years Sil A. was a member of an elite unit within the elite troops of the Commando Corps (KCT): the 102 Company. At Defense, the sergeant major tested weapons and communication systems. In February 2022 he was arrested on suspicion of arms and drug trafficking. A. is now free, but must report to the police every week.
"Dream of Me" The Public Prosecution Service suspects Sil A. of trading in 250 assault rifles, 250 pistols and 570 machine guns or parts thereof. A. says to Het Parool that he is surprised about the suspicion. 'Where did that come from?! A company in the Netherlands legitimately trades in military equipment and weapons. It is run by former civil servants who only do business with governments or recognized companies. I was visiting there with a Surinamese friend, because I was interested in equipment they could supply for a training center I was working on in Suriname. That was a dream of mine, as is generally known to all relevant authorities in the Netherlands.'
'No arms traded' According to A., someone from the Dutch company asked whether the Surinamese government could be interested in certain second-hand weapons from the Dutch defense. 'Suriname was asked that question. They had no resources, so that was it. There is demonstrably no arms traded, as confirmed by that company.'
Sky ECC In addition to arms trade, A. is also suspected by the judiciary of involvement in the smuggling of 260 kilos of cocaine. “They claim I used a Sky ECC account that reported cocaine trafficking. I told them: that's not me," says Sil A.
Childhood friend A. has been friends with Surinamese Dutchman Gregory F. since his youth. He was arrested in 2021 for drug trafficking and was sentenced to nine years in prison in March this year for cocaine transport. About Gregory F. A. says: 'He is a good childhood friend. I have always kept in touch with him. One year a little more, the next year a little less. I know him through people in South Rotterdam, where I grew up. I trust him blindly.'
"don't know that man" F. is seen by the judiciary as a contact of Taghi. Because of that link, Sil A. was also quickly associated with Taghi by the judiciary. Something that really bothers A. 'Naturally! I have no friends to be ashamed of. If Taghi had been a friend or acquaintance of mine, I would have just said so, but I don't know that man. I didn't know who he was or what he did until the whole of the Netherlands heard about him. Suddenly the government and the media linked me to him. The only time I had heard about him in the context of my work was 9 to 10 months before he was apprehended in Dubai (late 2019).'
Without any evidence Sil A. says about the link that, according to the Public Prosecution Service, exists between Gregory F. and Taghi: 'Whether or not they have a link, I really do not know and I do not find it relevant. The question is how I was linked to Taghi through Gregory F. without any evidence. I'm not in any of their files. Did the Public Prosecution Service and the media already influence public opinion without investigating anything? It is terrible that I have been unjustly linked to him, because all his enemies automatically become my enemies and, much worse, enemies of my family.'
On November 1, the substantive hearing will take place in the criminal case against A. In addition, he has been called up by Taghi in the Marengo trial to testify against the judiciary.
'Polish mafia': 'He didn't have to be killed, otherwise he couldn't pay' September 4, 2023
Prison sentences of between ten months and seven years were demanded in the court in Zwolle against five Polish suspects of assault, arms imports and arson. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the five were brought to the Netherlands by one of the suspects ( Krystian M. ) of the murder of crime journalist Peter R. de Vries to carry out criminal jobs.
During a search as part of another investigation, weapons and several telephones were found in a home in The Hague in October 2021. For example, the National Criminal Investigation Department came across a group of men suspected of having acted as brokers and/or executors of serious crimes. Two suspects in investigation 26Woltz were also found in the house during that search. A total of eleven suspects are on trial in this case.
'Man fucked up' According to the judiciary, the five Polish suspects in investigation 26Woltz participated in a series of violent jobs in various compositions. For example, a victim in Eindhoven is hammered in July 2020. One of the suspects says in a tapped conversation that 'he screwed up a man in Eindhoven in a forest'. Also in encrypted Sky ECC chats, a hammer passes several times and people talk about ' he got hammer his knee ' and that ' guy is broken for sure' .
'Hitting disabled' In September 2021, the ex-husband of Ridouan Taghi's sister must be beaten "disabled" in Lopik . The intended victim is said to have harassed Taghi's sister. According to the Public Prosecution Service, alleged murder broker Krystian M. (28) sent Pawel J. and two others to Lopik to beat up the ex considerably. Chats indicate that shooting should be done 'on hands and knees'. The use of a sledgehammer is also referred to as 'full knee hands'. In the end, it does not come from the abuse of the intended victim.
arson According to the Public Prosecution Service, three of the suspects are also the men who set fire to a business premises in Best in August 2021. Camera images show how the three men come to the business premises at night with two jerry cans with a fire-accelerating liquid. The men talk in Polish and drive off in a white Renault Clio. A glove and a pack of cigarettes with DNA traces pointing to the suspects are later found near the getaway car.
Armored doors with code In December 2021 there is a job in Groningen. Three of the suspects, possibly armed with axes, visit someone in a business building to collect an outstanding debt. The job fails, one of them tells in a recorded conversation:
'We also went to Groningen. It was a fortress. Armored doors with bolt and code. We went inside and a woman and a guy came to us and a Russian (…) There was no chance.' Another suspect states: 'Actually, the three of us were supposed to go to the man and hit him. We had to scare him. We also had to record it, film it. (…) he shouldn't be killed, otherwise he couldn't pay.'
Moroccan rapper That same month, a Moroccan rapper is also trapped in The Hague and robbed of his shoes, jacket and telephone. One of the Polish suspects tells several people that they were actually after an expensive watch: 'He had a watch for 240,000 Old Ones, a doorway down…a doorway down…broken fingers. Completely undressed. I say: 'I will kill you. Where's the watch?' I threw his key to the Golf in the ditch. I smashed up his whole car.'
Lucky Luke In addition to assaults, Pawel J. (29) and Robert M. (40) are suspected of importing a pistol and an automatic firearm with ammunition and silencer. They will be found in January 2022 when the police pull over Pawel J.'s car near Zwartemeer, near the German-Dutch border. It already followed from tapped conversations that it was the intention that an 'iron', 'what Lucky Luke had', should be picked up from another country. Later in these conversations it is also discussed that it is about one of those things that one only uses once.
The OM is demanding seven years in prison against Pawel J. and Robert M. Prison sentences of between ten and 54 months have been demanded against the other three suspects.
Weapon arsenal In the 26Woltz investigation, a large arsenal of weapons was found in March 2022 in a storage room of a house in Alphen aan de Rijn. It concerned 22 small arms, 22 automatic weapons including sniper rifles and four anti-tank weapons (bazookas). Five men will be tried later in September in connection with this weapons stash. According to the judiciary, the weapon stash probably contained the weapon with which Peter R. de Vries was shot.
In addition, later this month, four people will stand trial for the shooting of 'tattookiller' Cor P. in the Dominican Republic on January 4, 2022.
Princess Amalia started her second year at the University of Amsterdam today. But the 19-year-old still has to do without freedom and independence. Reason: The threat from the drug mafia is still high. So high that the Crown Princess will have to live with restrictions in the future and will not move back to Amsterdam.
Learning with fellow students, experiencing student parties, moving into your own booth for the first time: Even in the coming semester, these ideas of a carefree student life will not come true for Princess Amalia for the time being. As "Dana Press" reports, the Crown Princess will not return to Amsterdam and will continue to study from her parents' home at Schloss Huis ten Bosch.
A protective measure that has been in place for over a year. At that time, the first rumors arose that Amalia could be in danger. The reason: the eldest daughter of King Willem-Alexander was targeted by the Mocro-Maffia . After the rumors turned out to be an acute threat, the consequences followed. Protecting the princess was the top priority. Nowhere could security be guaranteed better than in the palace of the Dutch royal family. For Amalia, this meant she had to pack up her tent just a few days after moving to a shared flat in Amsterdam.
With the current decision, it is clear: the threat still exists. Even if the young heir to the throne appears more frequently in public appearances, the situation is extremely depressing, as she explains in an interview on her first official trip abroad .
Visiting the Venice Film Festival should have put everyone in a good mood despite all the disappointment. Away from the red carpet, the Dutch Crown Princess was spotted in the company of Belgium's King Philippe and his children.
Public Prosecution Service demands up to five years for Mexicans for working in drug labs September 9, 2023
The Public Prosecution Service has demanded prison terms of five and four years against three Mexican men before the court in Arnhem for producing crystal meth in an illegal laboratory. On Thursday, the public prosecutor also demanded five and four years in prison for two men from Zevenaar and Arnhem in this case.
Cooks The Mexican cooks were flown in to produce methamphetamine here, the prosecutor said. The Public Prosecution Service wants the men to pay an amount of 106,961.40 euros in criminally obtained money in addition to the prison sentence.
Shed On June 28 last year, the police raided the warehouse in Arnhem containing the drug lab. The police had received several signals about the building. A living area had been set up in the warehouse, where the police found the three Mexican suspects during the raid.
The police then found a hidden hatch that gave access to a professional drug lab, intended to produce or process synthetic drugs on a large scale.
Eldest son (22) and 'heir apparent' Ridouan Taghi arrested in Dubai Ridouan Taghi's eldest son (22) has been arrested in Dubai, he has been in custody since the end of July. Investigative services consider him a key player in his father's organization. The investigation had long suspected that he was being groomed by his father to take over his organization.
The police in Dubai arrested Ridouan Taghi’s oldest son, Faissal, early last month, sources told De Telegraaf. Like his father, Faissal (22) is suspected in the Netherlands of participation in a drug-trafficking criminal organization and money laundering, among other things.
Several intelligence services, including those of Dubai and Morocco, played a key role in Faissal Taghi’s arrest. Employees of those services also interrogated him, and that raised new suspicions against several Dutch lawyers, the Telegraaf wrote. The Dutch police and Public Prosecution Service (OM) wouldn’t comment to the newspaper on the matter.
The Nehterlands concluded an extradition treaty with Dubai in 2021, so Faissal will probably be extradited here. As the case against his father and other members of his gang is in its final stages, Faissal will likely be tried separately.
The Dutch police had intensive contact with their colleagues in Dubai in the investigation into Faissal. According to the Telegraaf, the OM describes the investigation into Faissal Taghi as “very complex internationally.”
Faissal Taghi is linked to the Italian mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale, who has since become a key witness for the Italian authorities. According to the authorities, Faissal Taghi and Imperiale worked together in an extensive smuggling network of drugs and cash through Dutch industrial estates.
Imperiale allegedly had trucks containing cocaine driving from company warehouses in Noord-Holland to Italy. On the way back, the trucks smuggled millions of euros in cash to the Netherlands to be laundered. The OM suspects that Faissal Taghi made at least 5 million euros from this operation.
`El Rico’ was recently moved from the maximum security Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in the Netherlands to a “supervision unit” as he prepares for freedom.
The Dutch-Chilean drug trafficker Ricardo Riquelme Vega, whose nickname means ‘The Rich One’ was sentenced to 11 years in jail after being convicted of running a gangland assassination ring.
According to the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, El Rico was the leader of a criminal organisation that carried out assassinations, traded in cocaine and laundered money.
He carried out these operations together with Taghi, it has been alleged.
While El Rico is suspected of involvement in certain specific assassinations, he was never convicted for any particular one, and his sentence was limited to 11 years.
He has been transferred to a lighter prison regime, EenVandaag reports, as he is due for release in 2025.
Good morning Netherlands - September 15, 2023 — 11:21
Prisons take extra measures after arrest of Taghi's son: 'Super necessary' Prisons have scaled up security measures as Ridouan Taghi's son has been confirmed in Dubai. It has never happened before in the Netherlands that multiple prisons take these types of measures at the same time. That's what Het Parool writes .
The only 22-year-old Faissal Taghi is seen as the successor to his father's criminal empire. This week he was arrested in Dubai, which set off alarm bells in the Netherlands.
The police expect that his arrest could lead to unrest. To avoid chaos, several penitentiary institutions are taking extra measures. Detainees, mainly those linked to Taghi's criminal organization, are monitored more closely, are allowed to leave their cells less, make fewer phone calls and receive fewer visitors.
Extradition denied Faissal Taghi was arrested in Dubai at the end of July, following an extradition request from the Netherlands. Taghi's eldest son is suspected of having continued his father's criminal organization since he ended up in the EBI in Vught in 2019. Consider international drug trafficking, money laundering and the preparation of violent crimes.
Faissal Taghi has remained in custody in Dubai since his arrest. The Netherlands requested extradition, but it was rejected by a judge in Dubai. The Netherlands has now appealed against that decision.
Police capacity All these extra measures mean more deployment of police personnel, says police union director Nine Kooiman. “It has consequences for the security and surveillance deployed by the police. It requires more capacity, but it is extremely necessary,” she says in Goedemorgen Nederland on NPO 1.
The court in Amsterdam has set a new date for the ruling in the Marengo case. She will deliver judgment for all suspects on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.
Hearings in the Marengo case will take place again in October in the extra-secure court, De Bunker, in Amsterdam. A pro forma hearing will take place on October 6 for all suspects.
17 people are on trial in the case, on suspicion of participation in a criminal organization and of involvement in 6 murders, 4 attempted murders and of preparing assassinations. Ridouan Taghi and Said Razzouki are suspected of leading the organization.
The latest news in the case was that the key witness in the Marengo trial, Nabil B., has a lawyer again. Onno de Jong again registered as his counselor.
Ridouan Taghi was also left without a lawyer after the resignation of Inez Weski, suspected of membership of a criminal organization. Arthur van der Biezen, Michael Ruperti and Sjoerd van Berge Henegouwen presented themselves as the new lawyers. They previously did not participate in the Marengo trial against Taghi.
But Taghi has announced through his new lawyers that he no longer wishes to participate in the court process. On July 19, the court decided that the three new lawyers will not be given additional time to study the file. They had requested a nine-month extension to do so. Taghi talks about a ' sham trial '.
Interview request for life sentence Dino Soerel wrongly rejected September 20, 2023
The appeal committee of the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Youth Protection (RSJ) has upheld a complaint by Dino Soerel, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, about refusing an interview request with the media. Soerel wanted to participate in a documentary about the Passage process. That request had previously been rejected by the penitentiary institution (PI) Heerhugowaard.
Series Dino Soerel (62) was sentenced to life in prison on appeal in June 2017 for, among other things, ordering the murders of Thomas van der Bijl (2006) and Kees Houtman (2005). In 2018, the Supreme Court rejected his cassation request.
Soerel was approached by documentary makers to participate in a series about the Passage Process. He would have one or two introductory conversations that would be recorded with a dictaphone. Afterwards, recordings might be made with a camera.
to disturb The director of the facility rejected that request on March 7, 2022. Soerel (photo) went to the complaints committee, which declared his complaint unfounded in February of this year.
The director decided negatively about the interview in connection with the interests of the surviving relatives, who did not want to see the matter stirred up in the media. If Soerel were to appear on television, it would disrupt the peace and grieving process of the relatives in an unacceptable manner.
Peace The RSJ appeals committee finds the weighing of interests 'insufficiently clear'.
The appeals committee understands the interest of the surviving relatives in rest. Approaching the surviving relatives would place too great a burden on them.
However, the appeals committee believes that the management has not sufficiently substantiated 'that this importance is so great that the complainant's request could be rejected on this ground alone.'
The appeals committee takes into account that when the management rejected the request, the conviction was 5.5 years ago, and the rejection came more than 3.5 years after the Supreme Court's judgment.
To inform In the opinion of the appeals committee, the director should have inquired about the surviving relatives' views on a possible interview with Soerel. Moreover, the documentary will be made anyway, whether Soerel participates or not.
Therefore, the director has not sufficiently justified the rejection of Soerel's request for contact with the media. The management of the PI Heerhugowaard must make a new decision on the request.
What is going on with Ridouan Taghi as of now ? Is his group still on top in Holland ?
The Moroccans still have influence but Jos Leijdekkers and Edin Gacanin are now the top guys, The Hague and Rotterdam also have some big bosses and in Brabant there are many Dutch who are involved in xtc, speed and ketamine.
What is going on with Ridouan Taghi as of now ? Is his group still on top in Holland ?
I think his entire network has been dismantled. Who knows, maybe they're still pulling a few strings from prison, but seeing they are under constant surveillance that must be quite difficult. Law enforcement is coming down hard on the Moroccan groups. And Taghi's group were definitely not the only ones bringing in tons of cocaine. Even though Samir Bouyakhrichan got killed years ago, people from his network stayed active, but many of them as well got busted in recent years.
In recent years, a few criminal circles that were traditionally active in other drug markets have been active in cocaine smuggling as well. Like some of the Turkish/Kurdish groups - who were traditionally mostly active in the heroin business - and some Dutch Traveller groups from North Brabant, who largely control the synthetic drug trade.
Surinamese networks (like the Piet Wortel group) and gangs from Curaçao (most notably NLS) have also stayed very active in the cocaine trade. The Curaçao-based gangs tend to use a large amount of couriers to consistently bring in smaller amounts of cocaine (not more than a few kilos per courier), but somehow they make quite a lot of money.
Old school criminals from the Amsterdam HA circle have also been brought into connection with cocaine shipments. A few years ago a major guy got locked up (Danny K.) but I don't think they actually got enough on him to keep him behind bars for long. I don't even think LE had any proof in linking his group to the big cocaine shipment they were suspected to be behind.
Italians in the Limburg region in both the Netherlands and Belgium have in recent years also been arrested for bringing in tonnes of cocaine. The Limburg region has a huge Italian community (when you combine both the Dutch and Belgian Limburg provinces, there must be close to 50.000 Italians living there) and Ndrangheta, Camorra and Mafia figures have all been detected there.
It's hard to say who's exactly on top, because the market for cocaine in the Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium is so enormous and there are so many different groups active. Taghi's network was most definitely big time, but they were never the only ones behind all of that cocaine coming through the port. Far from it. The Amsterdam/Utrecht region Moroccan groups got a lot of heat because a lot of violence was associated with them and they were connected to a few other major European crime syndicates - like Taghi's group had widely publicized connections to the Kinahan crime family from Dublin, the Gacanin clan from Bosnia, the Gillespie crime family from Glasgow and Raffaele Imperiale's Camorra group, whereas Bouyakhrichan's group had connections to the Dawes crime family from Nottingham - but at the same time you also had Rotterdam-based Moroccan groups that were active in bringing in tonnes of cocaine with far less violence.
The Moroccans still have influence but Jos Leijdekkers and Edin Gacanin are now the top guys, The Hague and Rotterdam also have some big bosses and in Brabant there are many Dutch who are involved in xtc, speed and ketamine.
Both Jos and Edin are very close to top players from Balkans, very interesting. I wonder if Joca Amsterdam still has any power there.
It's hard to say who's exactly on top, because the market for cocaine in the Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium is so enormous and there are so many different groups active.
I knew that Netherlands is biggest consumer and producer of synthetic drugs but i had no idea about cocaine market being so huge there with so many people involved. Considering number of groups and players i would expect much more violence.
The Moroccans still have influence but Jos Leijdekkers and Edin Gacanin are now the top guys, The Hague and Rotterdam also have some big bosses and in Brabant there are many Dutch who are involved in xtc, speed and ketamine.
Both Jos and Edin are very close to top players from Balkans, very interesting. I wonder if Joca Amsterdam still has any power there.
Jocic's son and wife are still here, a lot of his friends also, is he still in prison?
Jocic's son and wife are still here, a lot of his friends also, is he still in prison?
He should be released this year. His 14 year sentence is coming to an end. He will side with Kavacki clan for sure , because Luka Bojovic is sided with Skaljarski. Also Jos Leijdekkers and Edin Gacanin are close to Kavacki. Jos Leijdekkers used to communicate almost daily with Radoje Zvicer via SKY who is leader of Kvacki clan.
It's hard to say who's exactly on top, because the market for cocaine in the Netherlands and the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium is so enormous and there are so many different groups active.
I knew that Netherlands is biggest consumer and producer of synthetic drugs but i had no idea about cocaine market being so huge there with so many people involved. Considering number of groups and players i would expect much more violence.
Oh the cocaine market is enormous. I live in an area of about 12.000 people right now and top of my head I can name about 100 regular cocaine users that live in my area. I'd say that at any rave or party or nightclub event there's more people using drugs than there are people not on some kind of drug. Most users are either recreational users or functioning addicts. And most of them have traditional "respectable" professions; managers, lawyers, salespeople, consultants, teachers, doctors, etc... Life in Western Europe - despite arguably being the safest place in the world you can live in, and certainly one of the richest - is still extremely stressful; high workload, having to deal with other extremely stressed out people on a daily basis, lots of expectations, a huge tax burden, tons of social pressure and a general culture of discontentment. A lot of people look for either escapes from reality (like synthetic drugs) or ego/confidence boosts (like cocaine) to be able to deal with it all. So there's lots of users and more potential ones out there. Especially seeing younger kids these days are starting to use especially synthetic drugs and cocaine at an increasingly young age. I remember when I was a 16-year-old we started to drink a bit and smoked some weed or hashish from time to time, but 16-year-olds these days are popping mollies, snort ketamine and cocaine at some dorky youth movement party. That was unheard of back in the day. For some reason though all that drug use doesn't seem to lead to a ton of violence because you actually don't see a whole lot of fights happen these days among these youngsters. When I was in secondary school we were literally fighting and kicking the crap out of each other on an almost daily basis.
Honestly, it has always puzzled me as well why there still is comparatively little inter-group violence. Probably it's because the market seems to be big enough for everyone and all of them are still making a ton of money. Also, despite hits happening, most organizations still prefer to keep a relatively low profile because at the end of the day there are huge busts on the regular and most drug traffickers don't last that long before they end up in prison and have to start over again. And even though prison in any Western European country is not the worst place on earth, nobody likes to go to prison. In general I'd say that organizations active in the drug trade over here are highly professional. They have to be, because despite all of their professionalism most don't last more than a few years before they get hit hard by law enforcement and experience a major setback anyhow.
Violence between different "ethnic" organizations is virtually unheard of over here. Most of the violence comes from internal settlings of disputes.
The court in Amsterdam on Monday sentenced a 36-year-old man and a 22-year-old man on appeal to 30 years in prison for the mistaken murder of Ayla Mintjes (27) and an attempted liquidation of her boyfriend Anis B. in May 2021. The sentence is equal to the demand of justice on appeal, but considerably higher than the court previously imposed.
The court considers it proven that Samuel Y. (22) and Renato “Nato” F. (36) drove to Mintjes' home on Maassluisstraat in Amsterdam-Slotervaart on May 16, 2021 and waited there until her Mercedes left the parking garage. The suspects then fired on the Mercedes with automatic weapons. At least 36 shots were fired. The court assumes that Mintjes was not the target of the assassination attempt, but her boyfriend Anis B., who sat next to her in the car and was on a death list.
According to the court, shots were fired in a residential area at a time when people are usually on the street. The hail of bullets extended to a distance of many hundreds of meters, even to the top of homes. Anyone in the area of ??the spreading fire was in real danger of being fatally struck. The hail of bullets damaged several homes and vehicles parked in the street.
Oh the cocaine market is enormous. I live in an area of about 12.000 people right now and top of my head I can name about 100 regular cocaine users that live in my area. I'd say that at any rave or party or nightclub event there's more people using drugs than there are people not on some kind of drug. Most users are either recreational users or functioning addicts. And most of them have traditional "respectable" professions; managers, lawyers, salespeople, consultants, teachers, doctors, etc... Life in Western Europe - despite arguably being the safest place in the world you can live in, and certainly one of the richest - is still extremely stressful; high workload, having to deal with other extremely stressed out people on a daily basis, lots of expectations, a huge tax burden, tons of social pressure and a general culture of discontentment. A lot of people look for either escapes from reality (like synthetic drugs) or ego/confidence boosts (like cocaine) to be able to deal with it all. So there's lots of users and more potential ones out there. Especially seeing younger kids these days are starting to use especially synthetic drugs and cocaine at an increasingly young age. I remember when I was a 16-year-old we started to drink a bit and smoked some weed or hashish from time to time, but 16-year-olds these days are popping mollies, snort ketamine and cocaine at some dorky youth movement party. That was unheard of back in the day. For some reason though all that drug use doesn't seem to lead to a ton of violence because you actually don't see a whole lot of fights happen these days among these youngsters. When I was in secondary school we were literally fighting and kicking the crap out of each other on an almost daily basis.
You literally explained exactly what is happening here, at every club almost everyone are on cocaine, cocaine is glamorized, a lot of people think they are 'cool' if they snort cocaine , 17-18 years old think its prestige to snort cocaine. Same , when we were 16-19 years old , i never even saw cocaine , only weed sometimes and alcohol. I have no idea how cocaine became so popular, probably thru music/shows, a lot of songs glamorize cocaine. We used to do coke on every NYE or some other 'special' occasion, it was 2-3 times a year maximum, now we stopped even that.
Jocic's son and wife are still here, a lot of his friends also, is he still in prison?
He should be released this year. His 14 year sentence is coming to an end. He will side with Kavacki clan for sure , because Luka Bojovic is sided with Skaljarski. Also Jos Leijdekkers and Edin Gacanin are close to Kavacki. Jos Leijdekkers used to communicate almost daily with Radoje Zvicer via SKY who is leader of Kvacki clan.
Mirza G., 44, from Breda, who was sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for money laundering, was transferred from Spain to the Netherlands on Tuesday, the Public Prosecution Service reports. He was arrested in Spain in July .
Not present G. was born in Bosnia and married to a Dutch woman (42). They were convicted of money laundering by the court in Breda on December 12, 2022. He received 4 years in prison and his wife 18 months in prison. G. was not present during the hearing and the ruling of the case. The court had previously released him provisionally.
Anonymous information The investigation against G. started after anonymous information was received in 2017 that he earned his money through drug trafficking. The investigation revealed nothing of this. He was convicted by the court in connection with transactions involving three properties in Breda and a real estate project in Spain.
Threat G. is the cousin of Edin Gacanin., a resident of Breda who is suspected of involvement in international drug trafficking. Mirza G. is not on good terms with him, he reported threats in 2020.
Edin Gacanin was arrested in Dubai on request , but later released . The United States Treasury Department then placed him on the blacklist of people subject to asset freezes and with whom Americans are prohibited from doing business.
@Strax, in 2018 the murdered crime reporter Peter R. de Vries testified in the Holleeder trial.
Holleeder had told him that: Mink Kok would be behind the liquidation of rogue ex-lawyer Evert Hingst, an old claim that was once mentioned in Elsevier. Furthermore, Sreten Jocic is said to have threatened public prosecutor Koos Plooij. Mink Kok and Jocic are said to have had murders committed together.
There was also talk that Holleeder would have told De Vries about the payment of a hundred thousand euros to a corrupt Amsterdam police officer.
De Vries informed the court that based on Holleeder's account he could write a shocking book that would 'make everything written so far pale'.
Mink Kok was last year extradited from Lebanon, in June he was sentenced by the court in Rotterdam to a prison term of 6 years. . He was sentenced for importing 400 kilos of cocaine and setting up a drug lab where cocaine could be processed. He has underworld ties all over Europe, Middle East and Latin America.
Edin Gacanin inherited the business from his father Miralem Ga?anin, his father was working with Dutch man named Arnoldus Josephus Van Horsen , Arnoldus helped Edin with everything after death of his father in 2008, he helped build the 'supercartel'.
Mirza G. is now running from both Edin and the law, in Breda he bought buildings in city center for millions of euros, drove expensive cars and so on. His wife Rosita van den D. is accomplice.
Mirza G. sending threads to journalists: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IzNwOS3O0C4 , before the threats he is talking about how he is free and building that house in Holland.
How the Chinese mafia became boss in the Red Light District In the 1970s, Amsterdam's Chinatown was the scene of a bloody war between Chinese triads who disputed control over illegal gambling houses and the emerging heroin trade. History Cees Koring Jun 26 2018 | 10:35 Bureau Warmoesstraat Part of the Zeedijk, the Stormsteeg, Geldersekade and Binnen Bantammerstraat is also called Chinatown. A big word for a piece of the capital of a few hundred square meters, but in the 1970s this place was big enough for tough, rarely seen crime. A bloody war was fought in the streets of Amsterdam-Chinatown between Chinese who disputed control over (illegal) gambling houses and the emerging heroin trade.
The soldiers in that war were members of societies with mysterious names such as 14 K, Wo Lee Kwan, Wo Sing Wo and Fuk Yee Hing. There were suddenly dead people on the bridge at Binnen Bantammerstraat and on the quays on the edge of the warm neighborhood. On May 20, 1975, Arie Damsteegt and his colleague Rinus Waterloo, detectives from the Warmoesstraat bureau who were in charge of Chinese affairs, found themselves in the middle of the gangster war.
This time the center of the violence was Wahkiauw/Si Hoi, a gambling house and restaurant that ran from the Geldersekade to the Prins Hendrikkade. A few months earlier, its boss, Chung Mon, had been murdered in mafia-like fashion near his business and in the middle of the day. Damsteegt: 'Since the murder of Chung Mon, there has been constant rot at Wahkiauw. There were arguments and shouting matches in which mothers were severely insulted. That provoked fights. Rinus and I had an appointment on May 20 with people who were the bosses of the gambling house after the murder of Chung Mon.'
Damsteegt continues: 'We wanted peace and quiet in the tent. While waiting for the conversation, we had a cup of tea in the part of the building where a travel agency was also located. Suddenly we heard sounds that sounded like fireworks: prr, prr. And immediately afterwards a bunch of Chinese people emerged through a door that led to the gambling house. They literally crawled and rolled over each other to get out. “ Ta chicken!” it sounded. "A raid!" Rinus and I pulled out our pistols – we still had those little FN's – and we went inside the gambling house. I heard bullets hitting the wall around me. There was a man standing near the gambling tables with a large, shiny firearm. We knew him as the boss of the security team; the security service, so to speak. He pointed the gun right at my head. Cursing in Chinese, I walked over to him and took the gun from him. I didn't think he was going to shoot me, but if he had, I would have gone to hell swearing.'
Damsteegt: 'I saw Rinus standing with a man lying at a gambling table. “He's blowing bubbles of blood,” Rinus shouted. The man was already dead. With the Chinese's weapon and my own pistol in my hands, I walked on to the side of the Geldersekade. At that time there was a sand dam there. A number of Chinese then burst in. I shot too. It was wrong and at the same time it crossed my mind that I was happy about it. There was also shooting from the gambling house, but that stopped when we walked forward. Suddenly colleagues drove up from everywhere. I have never seen so many officers arrive at the same time so quickly. With the exception of one or two, the entire group of attackers could be captured. Around and in the gambling house there were two dead and a whole host of injured, also from stabbings. It was chaos.'
Commissioner Gerard Toorenaar, the former chief of the central police in Amsterdam, wrote in his memoirs in 1985 that the violence stemmed from a battle between triads, secret Chinese societies. These groups were active in drug trafficking and in the gambling business. Wo Lee Kwan wanted to compete with Amsterdam gambling boss Chung Mon by opening a gambling house near his club Wahkiauw, according to Toorenaar.
Chung Mon, nicknamed Fokkie Lang ("afraid of no one"), threatened to drain the triad. He wanted to cut off their heroin lines to Amsterdam, which is why the Wo Lee Kwan successfully sent assassins after him on March 3, 1975. A few months later, on that infamous May 20, the bloody power grab at Wahkiauw followed, in which Damsteegt and Waterloo became involved. Arie Damsteegt: 'At that time we had just gained a little insight into the backgrounds of those triads. But when we first talked to colleagues about secret Chinese societies, we were called morons. Such things did not exist in Amsterdam at all, or so it was initially argued.'
The first Chinese settled in the Netherlands around 1910. It concerned personnel on the large steam vessels - coal barges and stokers - who hung around in sheds (' boarding houses ') in the port areas of Rotterdam and Amsterdam between sea voyages. Gradually, Chinese also settled in the residential areas near the ports. As early as 1916, there was a small community in the Buiten Bantammerstraat in Amsterdam, according to Karina Meeuwse in her book Het Huis van Han , about the history of the Chinese in our country. The Chinese opened lodging houses, restaurants and laundries. Those who were not so enterprising found a job there.
The crisis of the 1930s brought even more sailors to shore and the peanut man entered the scene. Forced by unemployment, many Chinese took to the streets with a container full of peanut cookies for their bellies (' pinda, peanut, lekka, lekka '). Willy Derby sang a song about it and this created a stereotypical image. In fact, the Netherlands knew nothing more about the Chinese than that they came from a distant country, could not pronounce the 'r', had slit eyes and sold cookies. On the other side was a very closed community. Even when heated arguments broke out among themselves, the warring parties covered each other with unprecedented silence.
Such as in the summer of 1922. Commissioner Voordewind mentioned in his memoirs about that time a shooting between Chinese, killing and wounding, on the Oude Waal in old Amsterdam. During the interrogations, the suspects 'shut up': they kept their jaws clenched. Police only discovered that the altercation involved groups called Bo On and Three Fingers, but what it was all about remained unclear. "There may have been foul practices in the recruitment of sailors," the commissioner said.
In fact, there was a war between triads, which had been contesting each other's control over employment on seagoing vessels for years, but the police had no idea of ??this at the time. The shooting on the street gave public order a serious blow and caused so much unrest that hundreds of Chinese were deported from the country.
Around the 1940s, there were few Chinese in our country due to the deportation policy. Those who stayed could be found in the Katendrecht district of Rotterdam and in the Binnen Bantammerstraat in Amsterdam. It was called the 'Chinese street': Thong Yan Kai. The residents there kept their traditions alive. In Yo Li, the first gambling house in the city, fantan and mahjong were played loudly for a lot of money. There was also an opium den that was left undisturbed by the police. The war of 1922, fought in the streets, was long forgotten.
In 1977 , The Hague Post quoted a Dutch junkie who had been getting his opium in the Binnen Bantammerstraat for years: 'There were four or five of those old Chinese people, next to the gambling house. Very old men, some 80 years old. At certain times they came outside to see if there was a customer. Just making a few deals on the corner. 10 guilders for a slice of opium. No unrest. No crime. It was made in the opium den for the Chinese scene. There they lay smoking on low wooden beds, with long pipes. There was a large iron pot on the fire in which the boss prepared the opium. The Chinese were then left completely alone; the police did not look further into it as long as it did not become bigger.'
Dutch and Mexicans arrested after discovery of drug lab in Giessenburg October 2, 2023
The police found a drug lab in a business premises in Giessenburg (South Holland) on Saturday. Seven men were arrested in the building: two Dutch, four Mexicans and a Pole.
Raid An arrest team entered the business premises on Parallelweg in Giessenburg on Saturday morning around 7 a.m. This happened after a police investigation by the National Criminal Investigation Department. A drug lab for producing synthetic drugs was found in the building. Seven men who were found in the building were immediately arrested. It concerns four Mexicans, two Dutch and a Pole.
Hundreds of liters of chemicals In the building, the police found hundreds of liters of chemicals for the manufacture of synthetic drugs. A sleeping area was also found next to the production line. It is still unclear whether this could possibly be a crystal meth lab.
The mayor has immediately closed the building administratively.
The seven men have been arrested for questioning and will be arraigned at the court in Den Bosch on Tuesday.
'Ex-Satudarah's are not allowed to work for Defense' October 4, 2023
Two brothers from Tiel who were members of the now banned Satudarah MC are therefore no longer allowed to hold certain positions in Defense. According to Omroep Gelderland, the Utrecht administrative court has rejected a complaint from the brothers against this.
Twenty years in the military Defense refused to give the two positions in the armed forces where they would have access to confidential information. The brothers then went to court.
They had been members of Satudarah since 2010. The motorcycle club was banned by the judge in 2018 because the club allegedly engaged in criminal activities and posed a threat to public order.
The pair have been military for more than twenty years. The brothers took part in many foreign missions.
Out of the way The brothers denied there was a safety risk. They say they have not come into contact with criminal members and have avoided those contacts.
The administrative judge finds that it is established that the men still have contacts with former club members and that this is partly why Defense may doubt the suitability of the brothers for a confidential position.
Chapter Nijmegen One of the two brothers was president of the Nijmegen chapter of Satudarah. The other also had a management position and, among other things, monitored order during club nights and parties.
In 2019, Defense withdrew the so-called declaration of no objection (VGB) for the two to fulfill a confidential position.
'Mexican Crystal Meth Cooks No Longer Needed In The Netherlands' By Sol Prendido 10/01/2023 01:38:00 PM 42 comments "Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat
The presence of Mexican crystal meth cooks in the Netherlands is negligible after the method of producing the hard drug became known and they are no longer needed. This is according to a book by Flemish journalist Arthur Debruyne.
Arthur Debruyne states this, following the release of his book "The Mexican Method, The Invisible Advance of Crystal Meth in The Rural Areas" (Ambo Anthos, 2023). Debruyne wrote the book about the work of these cooks, partly in response to the arrest of several Mexican meth cooks in recent years.
Breaking bad
Debruyne became interested in the cooks through the series "Breaking Bad," he told NPO Radio 1 on the news program Nieuwsweekend. This gave him the idea that the Mexicans in the series were mainly viewed "through the lens of fiction, with all kinds of cliches. As a result, he became curious about the reality behind it.
Debruyne: 'In that reality, the cooks often work without protective masks, causing them to hallucinate, for example. They also always play second fiddle; they were brought here by the Dutch, because they understand how to produce the meth as efficiently as possible. The Dutch then provide the locations, the raw materials, the sites and the hardware.'
Lots of money
The journalist also spoke with cooks himself, at the prison for foreign inmates in Ter Apel. 'Diego and Victor were two normal men, raised in the drug-producing state of Durango in Mexico. Men with families, who saw the Netherlands as an opportunity to make a lot of money quickly, coming from a country where drug production is tolerated. And where even government figures benefit. This is in fact disguised state aid. In Mexico the penalties are harsh. Whereas in the Netherlands they were relatively low.'
But the cooks are now no longer needed. Debruyne: 'The producers in the Netherlands have figured out their trick for maximum profits by now. However, Mexican nationals did their best to keep it a secret.'
The book also includes Crimesite's revelation, about the earlier conviction of one of the cooks in the United States, as a result of which justice has now demanded a maximum prison sentence against him.
Meth is lucrative as a secondary trade but MDMA (XTC) is still king here.
To understand what lies behind the production of an ecstasy pill, let's go back to the beginning. Freek: “The raw material for an ecstasy pill comes from China. This usually comes to the Netherlands in bulk packaging via sea freight or air freight, of course well hidden or disguised as something else. From a storage location they then take the raw material to a drug laboratory, where the raw material is converted into the end product MDMA. Such a laboratory is often set up in a shed or shed, located in a rural area. Here, the strong aniseed smell that arises during the production process is not easily noticed.
Research shows that on average one in five farmers in Brabant has been approached by drug criminals to rent out an empty barn or stable. They mainly visit farmers who are experiencing vacancies or financial problems, because they desperately need the money and are expected to agree more quickly. Fortunately, most farmers say no.
THURSDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2023 - 19:40 Underworld figure Piet S. receives 17-year jail sentence in major drug case
Piet S. was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Thursday by the court in The Hague for various crimes including drug trafficking and money laundering in the major case known as Taxus. The man, who has a long-lasting reputation in the underworld, was according to the court the leader of an organization responsible for receiving and sending various types of drugs.
"He could rank with the top of the Dutch drug world," said the court, calling the acts attributed to S. and his group "unprecedented."
His son Freddy was also on trial as a member of his father's organization. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, also for his involvement with the illegal gambling site Edobet. It was previously revealed that Freddy saw himself as a kind of agent overseeing players on the gambling site. Among those who gambled on the site was the name of former professional footballer Dirk Kuijt, who was also heard as a witness.
The Taxus case has been ongoing for years. More than 20 suspects were tried, who, according to the court, had various roles in Piet S.'s organization. Sentences for the other defendants ranged from fines to prison sentences from six months to twelve years.
Evidence against Piet S. included decrypted messages and wiretapped conversations. Listening devices were installed in a so-called 'man cave' of S. and his group at a car dealership in Uithoorn, Noord Holland.
S. was notably heard threatening two men who owed money to one of his friends. "I've done nothing Piet, I've done nothing," was repeatedly heard in the recording. "Tell me what I did." The voice of one of the men grew louder, and he seemed to sob at one point. In the background, S. could be heard shouting insults like "kankerhond" (cancer dog). The court stated that Piet S. revealed in this audio clip a "ruthless and violent side of himself."
S. himself provided a different interpretation during the trial sessions. He claimed he was not involved in drug trafficking but acted as a kind of mediator for criminal groups. The court dismissed this explanation. The Public Prosecution Service demanded a 16-year prison sentence for the man in May.
S.'s lawyer will now review the verdict, which has 5,000 pages, and will provide a response later.
What do you think TKJ? 17 years is a stiff sentence for drugtrafficking and leading a criminal organization.
Piet S. was the leader of the criminal drug organization, the court ruled. This organization set up drug lines around the world, from Russia and Australia to England and Paraguay. The court convicts Piet S. of years of drug trafficking: 'He imported, among other things, 4,600 kilos of cocaine from South America and 11,000 kilos of hashish from Morocco to the Netherlands.'
His son Freddy S. was also a member of the organization. Simon S. was the leader of a subgroup within the organization that was mainly concerned with the production of amphetamine and methamphetamine and the import of thousands of kilos of raw materials for these.
Jan van de V. and Hassan K. are also convicted of trafficking in hundreds of kilos of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy pills and the production of methamphetamine. Other members have also been convicted for their role in the organization. The organization used corrupt customs officials and bribed port employees, the court said in a message about the ruling.
Lawyer Moszkowicz suspect in Belgian drug investigation October 13, 2023
Utrecht lawyer Yehudi Moszkowicz was arrested on September 29 in the detention center in Beveren (Belgium) when he visited his client Flor B. (37). He was released after questioning and arraignment before the investigating judge. Moszkowicz is suspected of membership of a criminal organization and believes he has been tapped in prison.
Bolle Jos The Belgian newspaper De Standaard wrote the message based on sources, and received confirmation from the Public Prosecution Service in Belgium.
The investigating judge released Moszkowicz under conditions. Among other things, he is not allowed to maintain contact with Belgian lawyers who play a role in the investigation into his client Flor B.. B. was extradited from Switzerland last year. He is suspected of large-scale cocaine trafficking in several countries, including together with his friend “Bolle Jos” Leijdekkers, who is a fugitive from Dutch justice.
B.'s Belgian lawyer is Hans Rieder and in the Netherlands this is Yehudi Moszkowicz. Moszkowicz is also a lawyer for suspects in Dutch investigations related to the investigation into Flor B..
No contact Moszkowicz is also not allowed to have contact with suspects in B.'s circle. The Belgian public prosecutor's office suspects Moszkowicz of having provided services to B. that went beyond a normal lawyer-client relationship. It is not clear what exactly is meant. This may involve sharing information.
Vivian LP Flor B. comes from Lommel (B) and came to Eindhoven a lot. According to various sources, the investigation into B. in Belgium also includes the name of Vivian LP , who was recently arrested in Eindhoven. According to the police, he is said to be related to Flor B. Sources tell Crimesite that LP had a security company and regularly acted as B.'s driver.
Flor B. is considered in Belgium to be one of the largest cocaine traffickers in the Low Countries. He has been in Beveren prison since October 2022, after being extradited to Belgium from Switzerland. He is a suspect in the major investigation surrounding Kriva Rochem, an Antwerp company specialized in the desalination of seawater. At least 3.2 tons of cocaine are said to have been imported through that company.
Not prosecuted In the past, lawyers in Belgium have been charged by the investigating judge with membership of a criminal organization and subsequently not prosecuted in court.
In the Netherlands, a case is pending in court against (ex) lawyer Inez Weski, who is suspected of membership of the criminal organization of her former client Ridouan Taghi.
What do you think TKJ? 17 years is a stiff sentence for drugtrafficking and leading a criminal organization.
Piet S. was the leader of the criminal drug organization, the court ruled. This organization set up drug lines around the world, from Russia and Australia to England and Paraguay. The court convicts Piet S. of years of drug trafficking: 'He imported, among other things, 4,600 kilos of cocaine from South America and 11,000 kilos of hashish from Morocco to the Netherlands.'
His son Freddy S. was also a member of the organization. Simon S. was the leader of a subgroup within the organization that was mainly concerned with the production of amphetamine and methamphetamine and the import of thousands of kilos of raw materials for these.
Jan van de V. and Hassan K. are also convicted of trafficking in hundreds of kilos of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy pills and the production of methamphetamine. Other members have also been convicted for their role in the organization. The organization used corrupt customs officials and bribed port employees, the court said in a message about the ruling.
17 years is an extremely tough sentence. He will be around 82 years old if he has to serve the entire sentence. There's a chance he will die in prison and to be honest I don't think he deserves that. The court makes him out to be some violent lunatic due to a heated wiretap conversation when he actually has the reputation of being low-key and professional. There are sexual offenders, violent psychopaths and dangerous nutjobs getting off with a much lighter sentence.
The same can be said of Greg Remmers. those guys are old school penoze lol. In 2021 Remmers has been sentenced in absentia in Antwerp to four years in prison for extortion from a diamond dealer.
'Two injured in shooting between Belgian and Dutch criminals in Marbella' October 30, 2023 \ Two people were injured in a shooting between two rival drug gangs in Marbella, southern Spain, on Saturday afternoon. According to the Spanish national police, this is a confrontation between Belgian and Dutch drug criminals. Spanish media write this.
Gunshot wounds At least three armed and masked men shot at members of a rival group around 12.45 in Guadalmina Alta, one of Marbella's luxury areas. Two men were injured. One of them was reportedly hit in the hand. The other reportedly had gunshot wounds to his leg, pelvis and arm. The victims have been taken to hospital, but are out of danger.
According to the Spanish national police, it is a confrontation between rival Belgian and Dutch drug criminals. It is still unclear whether the victims come from the Netherlands or Belgium.
Major panic The shooters are said to have fled in a Citroën. The national police are investigating the background to the shooting, which caused great panic among passers-by. No one has been arrested yet.
The outbreak of violence took place near the Guadalmina shopping center, located next to the A-7 highway.
Higher sentences for Martien R. family at court November 9, 2023
In the appeal in the case against the family of Martien R., higher sentences were handed down on Thursday than in the first instance. Martien R.'s own sentence was upheld.
Punishment Martien R. was sentenced by the court to 16 years in prison in the Brabant case in 2021. The court upheld that sentence on appeal. Also before the court, Martien R. is the 'undisputed leader of a criminal organization, with a strong family character, aimed at the large-scale trade in drugs and weapons'. He is again sentenced to 16 years in prison. The highest possible punishment for this type of crime.
Heavier The other suspects received heavier sentences in almost all cases. For example, son Anton R. and son-in-law Bart H. were sentenced to 10 years in prison, where the court imposed an additional 8 years.
Arnold M., who is seen by the judiciary as the leader's closest aide, disappears behind bars for 12 years. The court handed him a sentence of 10 years.
Toon R., Martien's cousin who managed to stay out of the hands of justice the longest, was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in accordance with the requirement.
Underground During a large-scale raid in November 2019, 115 kilos of weed, 54 kilos of amphetamine (speed), 280,000 ecstasy pills, 180 kilos of MDMA crystals and 3.7 kilos of crystal meth were found in underground spaces behind the family's camp. The group is also said to be responsible for two large cocaine transports of 1,561 and 315 kilos respectively to the port of Antwerp.
During the case, the police confronted the suspects with wiretapped conversations and camera images. Microphones and small cameras had been installed in the shed, which the family considered safe territory. Eavesdropping equipment was also hidden in Martien R.'s car.
Martien R. previously stopped his defense in court because he felt that the judges did not want to investigate important facts in the case.
Demand for 26 years in prison for involvement in the murder of lawyer Wiersum November 14, 2023
The Public Prosecution Service demanded 26 years in prison on Tuesday against a cousin of Ridouan Taghi for involvement in the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum. He is said to have helped prepare the murder.
The Public Prosecution Service (OM) is demanding a prison sentence of 26 years and 8 months against Anouar T., a cousin of Ridouan Taghi, for his role in preparing the attack on lawyer Derk Wiersum. NOS reported this on Tuesday afternoon.
Prison sentences ranging from 3 to 18 years have been demanded against six other suspects.
Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder's conviction must be upheld, Advocate General says The conviction of Willem Holleeder for instigating five murders should be upheld, according to the Advocate General at the Supreme Court in its advisory opinion issued on Tuesday. The Amsterdam Court of Appeal last year sentenced Holleeder to life imprisonment for orchestrating a series of murder contracts in an appeal verdict.
Holleeder, who has always denied the charges, brought the case to the Supreme Court in cassation. The Advocate General (AG) also believes the imposed sentence should stand.
The court ruled that Holleeder (65) was the mastermind behind the assassinations of Cor van Hout and Robert ter Haak (2003), Willem Endstra (2004), Kees Houtman (2005), John Mieremet (2005), and Thomas van der Bijl (2006). He was also behind a failed assassination attempt on Mieremet in 2002.
In 2019, the court already concluded that Holleeder was guilty of instigating the murders and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Key evidence against Holleeder was provided by his sisters Astrid and Sonja and his ex-girlfriend Sandra den Hartog. The women gave extensive and detailed testimonies. Fred R. and Peter la S. also testified against Holleeder. Both were key witnesses in the so-called Passage process, which partly concerned the same murders. Holleeder's “partner in crime” Dino Soerel was also sentenced to life imprisonment in this trial.
In the cassation proceedings, Holleeder's lawyers raised objections to the court's decision on the legality of the key witness deals and the reliability of the testimonies from various witnesses. They also protested against the imposition of the life sentence.
The AG believes that the Supreme Court has already evaluated the legality of the key witness deals in the Passage process. The court did not deviate from this in the Holleeder case. The court thoroughly examined the reliability of the testimonies, including those from the sisters, and explored whether others might have been responsible for the murders. According to the AG, this investigation "did not provide any indications that someone other than the defendant was behind the murders."
The advice of the Advocate General is not binding. The Supreme Court is expected to make its decision on January 9. No further appeal is possible. If the court reaches the same conclusions as the Advocate General, the conviction is final.
Costa case: 60 suspects appear in court November 11, 2023
The judge in Tongeren (B) decided on Friday that 60 suspects in the "Costa" drug case will be tried by the criminal court. Two lawyers and seven others have not been prosecuted. Maasmechelaar Lucio Aquino, ex-gendarmerie Willy Van Mechelen, the Dutchman “Bolle Jos” Leijdekkers and Geert Frisson, chairman of motorcycle club Bandidos, must answer for large transports of cocaine.
25 tons of cocaine Belgian justice states that the suspects smuggled a total of about 25 tons of cocaine into Belgium.
The first case dates back to 2019, when 2,800 kilos of cocaine were discovered in a container filled with tropical wood from Costa Rica. This was followed by searches, including at Lucio Aquino's.
Sky ECC Because the police managed to crack the SKY-ECC encryption service, detectives were able to read how former National Guard Willy Van Mechelen maintained contacts with criminal organizations such as the Aquino clan and the group around Geert Frisson and “Bolle Jos”.
In October 2021, there were further searches in Belgian Limburg and in the Netherlands and Spain.
Basketball player The Dutchman “Bolle Jos” is on the run. He is held responsible for the import of 1,340 kilos of cocaine, together with Nathan Steveniers, the son of the Belgian basketball player Willy Steveniers. Jos Leijdekkers is suspected in the Netherlands of ordering murder and large-scale import of cocaine.
Amsterdam suspects acquitted of murder of Spanish nightclub owner November 29, 2023
Two Amsterdam residents have been acquitted in Spain in a case in which they were suspected of the liquidation of a nightclub owner. Badr K. and Omar C. were in pre-trial detention for years. This was reported by the newspaper Het Parool.
Shot The criminal Spanish nightclub owner Abdelhadi Yaqout was shot in the head by two men wearing hoods during the night of January 20 to 21, 2019. This happened when he arrived in his Bentley at his home in the Marbella area.
Suspicious During the investigation, Badr K. (33) and Omar C. (23) were suspected of this. Initially, Jermaine B. (40), also known as 'King Kong', was also accused. Badr K. and Omar C. were in pre-trial detention in Spain for years.
Assassination squad The cooperating investigative services initially saw the Amsterdam suspects as part of 'a murder squad' that was involved in more underworld violence, writes Het Parool. But the Spanish criminal case ultimately focused only on Yaqout's liquidation, membership of a criminal organization and firearms possession.
The mobile phones of Jermaine B., Badr K. and Omar C. were said to have been registered in the vicinity of the murder scene during the liquidation of Abdelhadi 'Marco' Yaqout.
Yaqout was seen as a money launderer for the infamous Irish Kinahan clan and is also said to have been deeply involved in the international drug trade.
Suspicions In the Netherlands, Badr K. and Omar C. were linked to the suspicions surrounding the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum, the counsel for key witnesses Nabil B. in the Marengo case against Ridouan Taghi and his co-suspects. After his death, Badr K. appeared to have previously searched the name of the counselor on the internet.
Badr K. was sentenced this year to 25 years for the liquidation of Shaquille Goedhart in 2019. An appeal is pending in that case. K. was acquitted of complicity in the attempted liquidation of Spy City employee Sander de L. in 2018.
Omar C. is also suspected of violence in the Netherlands, but the status of the investigations into it was still unclear on Tuesday evening, according to Het Parool. Badr K. was seen as an accomplice of this Omar C.
Ridouan Taghi's lawyers want the court to conduct more investigations into the injuries their client suffered from December 16, 2019, after he was arrested in Dubai.
According to Taghi's lawyer Michael Ruperti, Dubai informed the Netherlands on October 2, 2023 that Ridouan Taghi was handed over to the Netherlands without injuries after his arrest. According to Ruperti, these so-called execution documents were provided to Taghi's defense a few days ago by the Public Prosecution Service.
In an extensive statement to Een Today, Taghi announced in 2020 that he was severely abused for days by officers from Dubai and Morocco after his arrest. “I was held in a room with freezing cold and treated with electroshock,” wrote Taghi, who heard a life sentence demanded against him in the Marengo trial
According to Taghi, a photo that Dubai released after his arrest had been edited so that injuries were not visible. Photos taken after Taghi's arrival by a doctor from the Dutch Forensic Institute show injuries to Taghi's face.
Ex-boxer shot in Berlin, shooter possibly with Dutch connection December 11, 2023
A former professional boxer was shot in Berlin on the night from Sunday to Monday. According to German media , the perpetrator or perpetrators escaped in a car with a Dutch license plate. The victim has been identified as Ibrahim A. (29), he was seriously injured, but is now out of danger.
The shooting happened at 3:40 am in the central Charlottenburg district on Lietzenburger Strasse. A. was walking on the street and was hit from a moving car. The small car was dark colored and reportedly had a Dutch license plate.
It is said that A. at least one bullet hit him in the neck. Three shell casings were recovered from the crime scene.
Guests at a nearby hotel provided first aid and alerted emergency services. Ibrahim A. was transported to a hospital and had to undergo emergency surgery.
The police searched extensively for the perpetrators and the car, but they were not found.
Clans Ibrahim A. is said to live on Lietzenburger Strasse, close to Kurfürstendamm.
He boxed his last professional fight in 2020. He is said to have contacts in the Berlin criminal environment of clans , groups of Turkish, Kurdish or Lebanese origin.
Ridouan Taghi's lawyers have resigned from the defense. They tell the Algemeen Dagblad and the ANP that 'continuing is of no use'. In June, Michael Ruperti, Arthur van der Biezen and Sjoerd van Berge Henegouwen took over the case from lawyer Inez Weski, who was suspected of membership of Taghi's criminal organization.
Unwilling The lawyers argue that Taghi is not granted an adequate defense by the court because the court is always unwilling when they make requests.
Their first request was to postpone the case for nine months, after all, they had to read up. In the meantime, the case against Taghi was almost complete, after a demand for a life sentence, Weski had already given her last response to the Public Prosecution Service in the rejoinder.
The court rejected the request for that postponement, but the ruling scheduled for October was moved to February. The lawyers felt that this was insufficient and a violation of the right to a fair trial.
The court also did not want to split Taghi's case from that of the other suspects in the Marengo trial.
Sil A. After ex-commander Sil A. stated in his case that he had attended a meeting a few years ago where a public prosecutor allegedly asked about the possibilities of liquidating Taghi, the lawyers wanted to hear witnesses about this.
The court saw 'no indications' that there was a plan to kidnap or kill Taghi. Requests for witnesses about this were rejected. This also applied to new data that, according to the lawyers, could indicate that Taghi had been mistreated by Dutch officials during his transport from Dubai to the Netherlands.
A request for recusal from Taghi's lawyers was rejected in early November .
According to lawyer Ruperti, Taghi has stated that he no longer wants another lawyer in this final phase of the court process.
The crime that shocked the Netherlands: When the Heineken boss was kidnapped Forty years ago one of the Netherlands’ wealthiest men was snatched by the future godfathers of the Dutch underworld
Four men from The Hague heard prison sentences handed down against them on Thursday. Their leader Gerrit de G. was sentenced in absentia to eleven years in prison. In three years they had a turnover of 360 million euros in the drug trade.
Start The court in The Hague has sentenced four men from The Hague to prison terms and community service for large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering.
The investigation started with hacking the PGP communications between the suspects. This showed that in an organizational context they were involved in large-scale trafficking in cocaine, preparations for the import of cocaine and money laundering by siphoning off the proceeds through gold trading.
Affairs Gerrit de G. (55) was extensively involved in preparatory actions to import cocaine from South America via Spain and Belgium to the Netherlands. Together with others he traded the drugs in The Hague. This made large sums of cash available to the organization, according to the justice department, with which a gold trade was subsequently set up. (scrap) gold has been bought up on a large scale, melted down and transported and traded abroad.
Leader The court ruled that G. worked with others in a criminal partnership, in which each member had his own task. Gerrit de G. is seen as the leader who was involved in strategic decisions. He was not present at the hearings because he is a fugitive and has been arrested internationally. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Shed Johan de G. (29) melted purchased (demolition) gold into large gold bars in a shed at the camp. He also counted the enormous laundered amounts of money that were transported to the camp in 'big bags', the AD notes.
This second suspect was extensively involved in dealing with cash as proceeds from the sale of cocaine and in buying and melting gold. This gold was intended for abroad. This suspect, who has been in custody since June 2022, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Guilty The third suspect is also guilty of money laundering. Carlo de G. junior, in his twenties, is guilty of participating in the criminal organization and money laundering. He took money a number of times and also used cars and valuable furniture, even though he knew that these were all proceeds of crime. He was sentenced to three years in prison, of which 1 year was conditional. The court takes his young age into account.
Jan R. (74) transported sums of money between five thousand euros and 1.3 million euros in the secret compartment of his car. He also had stored weapons and ammunition in his caravan, which he inherited. According to the judge, he is also guilty of money laundering. He was not part of the criminal organization and is also elderly. He has already served his prison sentence.
Dizzying The men conducted their business in a small caravan camp on the outskirts of The Hague, writes the AD. They earned staggering amounts of money from it. There is talk of a turnover of 360 million euros in just nine months. The family was involved in that trade for at least three years, the court stated.
BODY BLOW | Bodyguard of Kinahan-linked Balkan mob boss arrested in Sarajevo Gacanin, described as one of the world’s most prolific drug dealers by US authorities, was recently sentenced to seven years by a Dutch court for drugs offences
Fugitive Belgian criminal Koen van S. arrested in Spain !
Spanish police have arrested a fugitive Belgian criminal in Rojales (Alicante) who was wanted by Belgian and Dutch authorities. He was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018 for the kidnapping and torture of a Dutch florist.
Koen Van S. (45), former leader of the infamous Gang of 700 million, was sentenced to seven years in prison in Antwerp in 2018 for the kidnapping and hostage-taking of Dutch florist and drug trafficker Johannes W. Van S. was already incarcerated in Netherlands, because he was arrested near Breda in April 2017 with 3 kilos of speed and 5,000 euros in cash.
In collaboration with the Spanish police, the investigative services managed to trace him to a luxury villa in the city of Rojales (Alicante) where he lived with his family. He was arrested when he left his home.
'Ndrangheta According to the Spanish police, Koen van S is part of a criminal organization that is active throughout Europe and has ties to the Italian mafia clan 'Ndrangheta. Van S. is considered 'very violent and dangerous' by the European authorities.
Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men who may have committed an attack on a restaurant in Antwerp around 3 a.m. on Saturday night. An explosion burned down the ground floor of the restaurant. The Antwerp police do not rule out a link with drug violence.
International drug file Restaurant De Nachtegaal is run by Belgian former basketball professional Willy Steveniers (85). His son Nathan (36) is one of the main suspects in a large international drug file in which the fugitive Dutchman 'Bolle Jos' Leijdekkers is also central. Bolle Jos is held responsible for the import of 1,340 kilos of cocaine, together with Nathan Steveniers.
Record load On October 27, 2020, a record load of more than 11,000 kilos of pure cocaine was found among old iron in sea containers in the port of Antwerp. This was the largest seizure of cocaine ever in Belgium. At the end of September 2020, former state policeman Willy van Mechelen, Lucio Aquino and thirteen other suspects were arrested during Operation Costa , including Nathan Steveniers. Sebastian and Nathan Steveniers are said to be leading figures among the hooligans of FC Antwerp
The organization is said to have had a turnover of 195 million euros.
Large fire Last night's explosion took place around 3 a.m. on Middelheimlaan in Antwerp and caused a fire that destroyed the entire ground floor, except for the kitchen. The damage is extensive. No one was injured.
A suspicious car with Dutch license plates was checked near the restaurant just before the explosion. After the fire was reported, the police immediately made a link. The car was traced in the Netherlands and the two occupants were subsequently arrested.
Crystal meth lab busts becoming more common in the Netherlands, police say Police in the Netherlands took down 120 synthetic drug laboratories during the first 11 months of the year, including 20 used to produce crystal meth. By comparison, Dutch police found 15 crystal meth labs during the same timeframe in both 2021 and 2022, police said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Though highly addictive, crystal meth is not believed to be used by many people in the Netherlands, but it is more widely used elsewhere in Europe. Drug traffickers in the Netherlands are increasingly using the smuggling channels they established to distribute ecstasy as a means for trafficking crystal meth, a police representative told NOS.
The revenue generated by crystal meth sales is also greater, as is the profit margin. "At 7,500 euros per kilo, the wholesale price is four times higher than that of ecstasy," said André van Rijn, a police officer who helps dismantle labs, to NOS. Van Rijn expects investigators will continue to find an increasing number of crystal meth labs as a result.
Police have had to dedicate more resources in the last five years since arresting a Mexican drug trafficker who went by the nickname "Pablo Icecobar," a reference to notorious cocaine trafficker Pablo Escobar and "ice," another street name for crystal meth. He was taken into custody when a drug lab in Moerdijk was found in the spring of 2019. He was convicted by the District Court of Den Bosch this year. He was sentenced to serve nearly 15 years in prison.
The police are now launching a new effort in coordination with the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) to help investigate the the source of raw materials, new production processes, and estimates about the amount of synthetic drugs that each lab was able to yield. "When we dismantle drug labs, we almost always find empty barrels with remnants of raw materials. Or we find the raw materials at a location that we can link to the lab,” Van Rijn said in a statement. The NFI will then be tasked with compiling data that can be used in prosecutions.
"Drug trafficking often involves cash and criminals do not always keep auditable accounts. We can then use the NFI information sheets to calculate what has been earned. That is important to know, because then we can take away the criminally earned assets," Van Rijn said.
The additional forensics work is becoming more necessary as drug traffickers figure out new methods to work with different raw materials when supplies to previously used items are cut off or restricted. This leads to new yields in the production process, making it more difficult for investigators to calculate a drug lab's capacity.
"The police and the NFI cannot rely on calculations from surrounding countries,” said Van Rijn. "The Netherlands unfortunately sets trends in this area. Our country is the production leader in the field of drugs."
The police said the Ministry of Justice and Security has made it easier to restrict access to raw materials more rapidly, making it increasingly difficult and complicated for drug traffickers to acquire raw materials. "They have to invent and import new raw materials with which they then have to make the necessary substances for drugs themselves," said Jorrit van den Berg from the NFI.
'Now brother of Bolle Jos arrested in Turkey' Edited: Yesterday, 11:34 PMYesterday, 10:35 PMinland _ AMSTERDAM - The Turkish authorities are said to have once again arrested a close family member of the fugitive criminal 'Bolle Jos' Leijdekkers.
It is said to be the brother of the 32-year-old top criminal: Wilhelmus Adrianus. Het Parool reports this based on 'several insiders'. The Turkish authorities themselves have not yet announced the arrest. The brother was arrested for 'money laundering crime services', the newspaper wrote.
Leijdekkers' father, mother and sister were previously arrested.
Bolle Jos itself has been on the National Investigation List and the EU Most Wanted list since 2022. Dutch and Turkish authorities have been trying to catch the most wanted fugitive for a long time, because he is allegedly guilty of large-scale cocaine trafficking, extreme violence and money laundering. There is a reward of 200,000 euros for the golden tip that leads to his arrest.
Astrid Holleeder: 'Hopefully a life sentence for my brother will be a signal to major criminals' January 9, 2024
Astrid Holleeder indicated to RTL Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon that she was relieved about the final sentence of life in prison for her brother Willem. The Supreme Court upheld his previous conviction before the Court today.
Straight "I am relieved because justice has been done to all victims," ??the former lawyer says on the RTL Boulevard website. 'But also intensely sad. For him, he is and remains my brother, whom I also loved," she responded after the Supreme Court's ruling on Tuesday.
'But also for all the others he has dragged into his evil deeds. And quite a few of whom are now also facing hopelessness.'
Astrid Holleeder testified in the Vandros case against her own brother, as did her sister Sonja, and Holleeder's ex Sandra den Hartog.
Signal "I just hope that it is a signal to everyone who thinks that these types of serious criminal offenses go unpunished," Astrid responds. 'When we see how many young people are shamelessly used for these kinds of acts by the rich, big boys, this is a good sign. Even the big boys can't get away with it.'
Assignment The court sentenced Holleeder to life imprisonment in June 2022 for, among other things, ordering the murder of five people. Six men died, including her brother-in-law Cor van Hout and Willem Endstra. At RTL Boulevard: 'I hope that all relatives can now find some peace.'
19.3 million euros worth of iPhones and iPads stolen during a raid in Woerden January 12, 2024
Sunday evening's police raid on Kattegat in Woerden led to a large haul of stolen iPhones and iPads. The police reported on Friday that 19.3 million euros worth of iPhones and iPads were stolen from a company at Schiphol.
Once the truck and trailer had reached the warehouse, the police entered the warehouse with a SWAT team. Four suspects were arrested. A fifth suspect fled and hid in a ditch near a meadow along the A12. With the use of the police helicopter, this suspect was also arrested by the arrest team.
How the theft at the company at Schiphol took place and what the roles of the arrested suspects are are currently being investigated by the police. The five suspects between the ages of 23 and 43 have been brought before the examining magistrate and will remain in pre-trial detention for longer.
A detainee who the police linked to Ridouan Taghi's network was able to make unlimited and uncontrolled calls to the outside world due to a blunder in the penitentiary in Krimpen aan den IJssel. According to the Algemeen Dagblad , it was a suspect who was a flight risk and had been placed in an extra strict prison regime.
The issue occurred in the period after September 2023, after the arrest of Ridouan Taghi's eldest son. In the Netherlands, dozens of suspects were then told that their GVM status had been increased (GVM stands for detainees with a flight and/or social risk).
This means that they will be placed in a stricter regime and will be monitored more closely. One of the restrictions is that they are allowed to make short calls and only under supervision. All telephone conversations are listened to live by security staff.
In the Krimpen aan den IJssel PI there are great tensions surrounding at least two men who have been convicted of liquidations. One of them was attacked by a group of fellow detainees in mid-December. Also - due to the actions of a guard - a detainee burst into someone's cell with a knife. The person in that cell has been under serious threat for several years.
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Founder of The Hague rap band SFB shot dead in Rotterdam, hip-hop world shocked: 'A heavy heart' Summary by Algemeen Dagblad A person died with a gunshot wound was found in a house in the La Fontainestraat in Rotterdam just after 1 a.m. on Saturday morning. It concerns Barry Inees from Delft, who is also known as rapper Rabby Racks. At least two people were transferred to the police station
@H did you know that New York's first name was New Amsterdam? I read some article few days ago regarding Dutch OC and it reminded me regarding that claim..
@H did you know that New York's first name was New Amsterdam? I read some article few days ago regarding Dutch OC and it reminded me regarding that claim..
Ofcourse walking through NY you see many references to the Dutch, Utrecht Avenue for example.
Brooklyn a settlement southeast of New Amsterdam was given the same name as the town southeast of Amsterdam in The Netherlands: Breukelen.
Harlem was given the same name as the dutch town Haarlem etc...
New Netherland as a province was founded in 1624 and claimed as the area between the 38th and 42nd parallel. It is now the region containing the states: New York , New Jersey and Delaware.
Karim B., alias Taxi, is considered the leader of the Mocro mafia Taghi's archrival arrested in Spain author avatar JOHN VAN DEN HEUVEL
Modified: 37 min ago1 hour agoi nland _ MARBELLA - The Spanish police have arrested Ridouan Taghi's arch-rival, the Dutch Moroccan Karim B., alias Taxi, in Marbella. He is considered one of the leaders of the Mocro mafia.
Karim B., whose brother Samir B., alias Scarface, was liquidated in Spain in 2014, had to fear from several sides. PGP conversations showed that the murder gang of Taghi, Rico the Chilean and Raffaele Imperiale were fanatically hunting B.. They consider him an archrival and planned an attack.
According to the judiciary, they jointly targeted Karim. Imperiale, who would later defect to the Italian justice system, forwarded the locations where Karim would exercise four times a week and then have something to eat at the bar. It was the opportune moment to kill him, the criminals messaged each other via PGP telephones, according to the justice department.
Drug gang In the meantime, since 2018, the Spanish police have also been serious about Karim B., who is considered the successor leader of a drug gang involved in the import of coke and money laundering. The gang operates from Malaga, Barcelona, ??Melilla and Marbella. Consignments of coke were also transported to other countries, including the Netherlands.
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The action against B. is in the news in Spain. In addition to the Dutchman, five more suspects were arrested. Movable and immovable property worth fifty million euros has been seized. According to justice in Spain, the criminals used underground banking according to the Hawalla system to pay for coke transports. This is a financial system outside regular financial institutions to conceal the origin of the money.
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The murder of Scarface - the brother of the now arrested Karim B. - in 2014 led to several fierce outbreaks of violence between his accomplices and Ridouan Taghi's group in the following years. The feud between the two groups continues to this day.
This is pretty big news Scarface Bouyakhrichan was a legendary figure in the milieu with links to the old penoze.
'Ninjas' According to the judiciary, a plan was also hatched to commit a knife attack on Karim Bouyakhrichan in Dubai. That is less risky there than with a firearm. The Italian mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale wants to do that job with the help of some “ninjas”, but hitmen are ultimately unable to trace him.
Raised in disadvantage and previously accused: Khalid Kasem continues to bounce back The life of talk show host Khalid Kasem has been marked by setbacks and criticism. It was announced on Friday that he will temporarily resign from his duties as a presenter at BNNVara. He is under fire now that recordings have been leaked of conversations between him and Peter R. de Vries, in which he admits to having bribed an official. Yet Kasem has always struggled to his feet in the past.
There is a blanket of darkness surrounding Khalid Kasem, especially now that the presenter of Khalid & Sophie has immediately stopped his TV work after some audio recordings surfaced via AD. In this letter, the former lawyer admits to having accepted 8,000 euros in cash from a client to bribe a civil servant . Extremely reprehensible.
Conversations about Taghi It is not the first time that there has been a commotion surrounding Khalid: the AD reported in 2020 that he may have leaked information to top criminal Ridouan Taghi. A gang member spoke in an encrypted message about 'Mussa's brother', and one of Khalid's brothers is called Musa. Moreover, Khalid and Taghi were in class together for years in primary school.
Enough evidence was never found for Khalid's alleged leaking, but he was not exonerated. The big question, however, is: will the leaked audio recordings still kill him? “It is quite likely that conversations have been recorded that are also about Taghi,” says communications expert Lars Duursma in the podcast De Communicados .
Triangle relationship It's a strange thing, says Lars. “I think one of the most fascinating parts of this case is the triangular relationship between Peter R. de Vries, Khalid Kasem and Ridouan Taghi. Khalid was suspected of leaking sensitive matters to Taghi and Peter R. de Vries was the confidant of the key witnesses in the trial against Taghi.”
Khalid, Peter and his son Royce de Vries ran a law firm together. Lars: “Well, what's going on here? On May 28, 2020, Jan Meeus and Wouter Laumans released all kinds of decrypted messages in NRC Handelsblad, including: 'I just spoke to the man who helps Devil. Mussa's brother.'”
One day later This decrypted message from a gang member is said to be about Khalid. “And a day later, Peter R. de Vries resigned from the law firm. He said on Twitter: 'My job is done. It's time for a new phase.' (…) I took a look at Royce's book, because it is a logbook by Peter R. about this period, and there is nothing about it at all.”
CRIME PETER R. DE VRIES MURDER KRYSTIAN M. AMSTERDAM ASSASSINATION » MORE TAGS TUESDAY, 30 JANUARY 2024 - 11:21
Suspect in Peter R. de Vries murder claims he was pressured into involvement The man suspected of having acted as an intermediary in the murder of Peter R. de Vries said on Tuesday that he had been put under pressure. “I did not want this, but sent messages under pressure,” said Krystian M. in the court bunker in Amsterdam-Osdorp during the murder trial.
He did not want to explain what that pressure consisted of and what kind of messages he forwarded. “That has to do with my safety,” he said. It concerns “disturbing things” that were allegedly said to him. “I felt like I had no choice. If I could do it again, I would have done it differently.” The 64-year-old De Vries was shot on July 6, 2021, on Lange Leidsedwarsstraat in the center of Amsterdam. He was followed after he left the television production studio on Leidseplein for his appearance on RTL Boulevard and was shot soon after. He died nine days later from his injuries.
M. told De Vries’ relatives that he was sorry and apologized. He said the victim statement that daughter Kelly and son Royce made last week had moved him. That is why he decided to explain something about his role. However, M. refused to respond to further questions from the court.
After his short statement, M. turned around at the request of De Vries’ relatives, who were sitting at the back of the courtroom. M. took off his hood and looked at them. Shortly afterward, he turned back and pulled the hood back over his head. M. always wears a hood and face mask in the courtroom to avoid being recognized.
The 28-year-old M. previously hinted that he has been under severe pressure. Then, too, he did not want to say from where the threats came.
Investigators speculate that the alleged organized crime leader Ridouan Taghi gave the order for the crime reporter’s murder. Taghi is the primary suspect in a sprawling criminal case about a series of street-level assassinations, attempted killings, and plots to commit murder. The case has been randomly designated as the Marengo procedure.
De Vries was a confidante of Nabil B., the key witness in that case.
NOS News • Today, 11:30 am • Amended today, 12:26 Three life sentences for the murder of Peter R. de Vries
The Public Prosecution Service has demanded life sentences in the highly secured court in Amsterdam-Osdorp against three suspects in the murder of crime journalist Peter R. de Vries. It concerns the shooter, the driver and the 'murder broker'. Prison sentences ranging from 3 to 21 years have been demanded against the six other suspects. The court will make its ruling in June.
The Public Prosecution Service already demanded a life sentence in 2022 against the suspected shooter Delano G. (24) and driver Kamil E. (37), but the trial had to be repeated, partly because the justice department had called a new witness and because a judge had gone abroad. has moved.
The third main suspect, Krystian M. (28), is seen as the murder broker. He is said to have linked the client and those who carried out the murder. "He expressly controlled the place and time of the attack. He must be held very seriously for this," says the Public Prosecution Service.
The moment when the public prosecutor, at the request of the court, unrecognizably on screen, demands a life sentence:
"This case concerns the irreversible fact that these suspects robbed Peter R. de Vries of his life and caused untold grief to the surviving relatives," the public prosecutor explained. "With the murder of Peter R. de Vries, the suspects have caused irreparable suffering and caused an unprecedented shock in society."
The six other suspects are said to have been aware of the murder, who helped prepare it or filmed the seriously injured De Vries immediately after the attack.
These images have been distributed via social media, according to the Public Prosecution Service to sow as much fear as possible among the population. The Public Prosecution Service sees the images as part of the murder plot. The fact that there are suspects who say that they did not know who De Vries was does not make the murder any less serious, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
Konrad W. (31) heard a 17-year prison sentence demanded against him. The fact that he withdrew as a shooter is not a reason for the Public Prosecution Service to reduce his sentence. If it is up to the Public Prosecution Service, Gerower M. (27) and Erickson O. (29) will have to spend 21 years in prison. They are seen as preparers, spotters and filmers.
Not cooperating According to the Public Prosecution Service, Ludgardo S. (35) knows who the victim was and he knew where and when the attack would take place. He did not want to cooperate with a probation report in this case. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The Public Prosecution Service considers it proven that Divainy K. (30) participated in a criminal organization. He had an organizational role, says the public prosecutor. The sentence imposed on him was 8 years and 4 months.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Christopher W. (28) also knew about the murder plans. He was arrested in another case and was in custody when De Vries was murdered. Only his imprisonment prevented him from participating in the murder plot, the Public Prosecution Service says. If it is up to the justice system, he should spend 3 years in prison.
In the explanation provided by the Public Prosecution Service, the public prosecutor explained whether there was a criminal organization that aims to commit crimes and terrorism. Because a video was distributed immediately after the attack, the Public Prosecution Service has always said that there was also a terrorist intent.
A criminal organization exists when at least two people participate in it. According to the public prosecutor, this has been proven. A crime with terrorist intent cannot be proven, because according to the Public Prosecution Service this can only be proven in the case of Krystian M.
Krystian M. expresses regret Two days have been set aside to substantiate the punishment demands, yesterday was the first . Krystian M. was then the first suspect to make a statement. M. addressed De Vries' relatives yesterday. He said he forwarded messages under pressure.
"The sadness will not diminish for you, but I would like to say sorry for what happened," the Pole said in Dutch. He did not go into detail about the pressure, but spoke about "very intense things" that happened against him. were said. Further questions in court were not answered. The Public Prosecution Service today calls his statement "pre-conceived". "We cannot do anything with that at all."
The other suspects have so far remained silent in court. "They did not want to provide an explanation, they did not want to be held accountable. They made an indifferent and insensitive impression. A huge contrast with the grief of the relatives," says the public prosecutor.
Client Crime reporter Peter R. de Vries (64) was shot in the center of Amsterdam on July 6, 2021. Shortly before, De Vries was in a broadcast of RTL Boulevard and was on his way to his car.
He died nine days later . Less than an hour after the attack, Delano G. (23) and Kamil E. (36) were arrested. G. is said to have killed De Vries, E. is said to have driven the getaway car.
It has never become clear why the murder was committed. De Vries was a confidante of the key witness in the Marengo trial. The Public Prosecution Service says that it has been convincingly demonstrated that the murder was related to his role as a confidential counselor. According to the Public Prosecution Service, there is a series of murders. The lawyer and brother of the key witness were previously murdered.
The main suspect in that case is drug criminal Ridouan Taghi. He is not a suspect in this case, but the Public Prosecution Service takes into account that he is the client. Taghi has always denied this.
'Godmother of Amsterdam' arrested in Colombia, rocket launcher and weapons seized January 30, 2024
Police in Rotterdam found a large quantity of heavy firearms on Monday morning, including a rocket launcher that was ready for use. Six suspects have been arrested in connection with this. A woman who headed the alleged crime organization has been arrested in Colombia. She is nicknamed the 'Godmother of Amsterdam'. It is said to be the previously convicted Aura C.
The discovery stems from an investigation conducted in collaboration with the countries Colombia and Spain, based on intercepted and decrypted messages on the crypto platform Sky ECC. With this information, investigators were able to conclude that a 47-year-old woman with a Dutch/Colombian nationality was involved in drug trafficking from South America.
The woman was probably directly involved in the import of an intercepted shipment of 230 kilos of cocaine into Spain. In the criminal environment she is described as a major player in the cocaine trade who earns a lot of money from it. She would also be called the 'godmother of Amsterdam', the police said in a message on Tuesday, in which they reported this action. In 2017, the woman was convicted of preparing drug smuggling, according to the police.
After a few months of intensive detective work, the police had enough information to arrest and search properties on Monday. On Monday, January 29, the 47-year-old woman was arrested in Colombia at the request of the Dutch authorities. Where a house search was also carried out.
In the Netherlands, five suspects were arrested in Amsterdam, Zoetermeer, Schiedam and Ridderkerk. This concerns one woman and four men aged 29 to 62 with Dutch and Nigerian nationality. A number of these arrests were made by the Special Interventions Service and the Team Parate Unit from Rotterdam.
In total, the police seized more than 25 firearms and associated ammunition. Just like kilos of cocaine, more than 400,000 euros in cash, cars, jewelry and data carriers.
The men will be brought before the examining magistrate in Rotterdam on February 1, 2024.
The newspaper Het Parool reports that the woman is probably Aura C. , one of the broker sisters from Amsterdam who were convicted in 2017 for large-scale cocaine trafficking. The sisters were then given 4.5 years and almost 3.5 years in prison. They are said to have controlled a drug organization and provided housing through their real estate company Key Apartments. Aura C. was previously also imprisoned in Colombia for drug trafficking.
Liquidations more often take place within one's own criminal circle than as a result of conflicts with the enemy camp. For example, because of talking to the police, theft or poorly performing criminal tasks. This is evident from a study by Police & Science. Four out of five liquidations are cocaine-related. The number of liquidations has been decreasing since 2017. It does not appear that shooters are getting younger.
The researchers counted 57 liquidations from 2016 to 2021. Of all cases of murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, one in twelve is a liquidation. This shows that most of these types of crimes in the Netherlands come from a different source. The number of liquidations has also decreased since 2017.
The motive behind the danger of being liquidated often comes from the 'own camp' than from the 'enemy camp'. The analysis of the police's so-called murder and manslaughter file shows that less than forty percent of the motives have to do with liquidations of a competitor from the criminal environment, while more than half were aimed at someone from their own partnership. or around it.
The most common motives for liquidating someone from 'one's own camp' are breach of contract, theft (of money or drugs), talking to the police and the judiciary or to someone in the criminal environment.
This research shows that shooters of liquidations are exclusively men with an average age of 29 years old. The average age shows a downward trend, but that does not mean that there are increasingly younger shooters. The number of older shooters is decreasing and the number of young shooters is not increasing. So shooters of liquidations are not getting younger.
Police arrest Polish MMA fighter for murder February 3, 2024
On Saturday morning, an arrest team in Schijndel in Brabant arrested a 43-year-old Polish man on suspicion of a double murder in Poland. According to the police, the man is a renowned former MMA fighter (MMA stands for mixed martial arts). In Poland he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a man and a woman.
In his hometown of Bedzin, on New Year's Eve 2005, he hit a man and a woman in their home several times on the head with a punch and a sharp-edged object. The two subsequently died as a result of the attack.
Two days after his act, he also set fire to the couple's apartment, after which he fled.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019, which was declared irrevocable in 2021. The Polish authorities informed the Dutch police that he was hiding here under a false identity. He may have worked in construction.
Polish authorities issued a European Arrest Warrant on June 20, 2021, so that foreign investigative authorities could start working on the case.
The ENFAST network is the European network of specialized police teams dedicated to the detection of fugitives. These teams provide each other with assistance. FAST Poland sought cooperation with FAST NL in October 2021.
'Karim B. tried to siphon off money in Thailand' February 3, 2024
Karim “Taxi” B., who was arrested in Marbella, Spain at the end of January , tried to hide from the police and rival criminals, including in the Dominican Republic and Thailand. He did this according to various Spanish media after his brother Samir “Scarface” B. was murdered on the Costa del Sol in 2014. And in 2017 there was the deadly attack in Marrakech, where a judge's son was mistakenly killed.
Thailand Karim's brother “Scarface” B. headed a large network that imported cocaine into Europe. Karim B. fled to the Dominican Republic after 2017 and invested in real estate there. He also tried to do that in Thailand, and in Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Morocco. According to the National Police in Spain, he used the Spanish embassy in Thailand through contacts.
The criminal organization he is suspected of running in Spain is said to have laundered drug money from Spain on an international scale. That Spanish investigation started in June 2018. 172 real estate objects have now been seized by the Spanish authorities.
The Hague The Netherlands has requested the extradition of Karim B. in connection with a drug investigation in The Hague.
The question is whether B. will first go to the Netherlands or will first be tried in Spain.
Het Parool writes that Karim B. has reported himself to the police in Spain and that there is also speculation within the criminal environment about whether B. might make statements. But there is no indication of this.
Chilean In the criminal case about the criminal organization of Rico “Chileen” RV, the justice department stated that that organization planned to liquidate Karim B.. Justice sees this Chilean, together with the Amsterdam Neapolitan Raffaele Imperiale, as allies of Ridouan Taghi. Naouafal “Noffel” F. was also part of this. The latter, RV and Ridouan Taghi are all stuck. Imperiale has made a deal with the judiciary in Italy (it is not yet known whether he has also made statements about Dutch suspects).
Feud Het Parool writes that the underworld feud between the group of the B. brothers and those around Ridouan Taghi on the side of Karim B. also involved the Amsterdammer Danny K .. K. was convicted in 2017 in the so-called Andes investigation for leading a criminal organization, money laundering, threats, attempted serious assault and attempted extortion.
Another rival of Taghi's group was Mustapha F., who is currently in custody in Morocco for money laundering.
Lucas Boom After the murder of Samir B., attacks on people from the group around Danny K. and Karim B followed in 2014 and 2015. For example, in November 2014, martial artist Hans Nijman was liquidated in Beverwijk. In June 2015, Lucas Boom was shot dead in Zaandam and in November 2015 there was a failed assassination attempt on Peter “Pjotr” R in Diemen-Noord. In October 2015, a beacon was placed under the car of Amsterdam criminal Gordon F. , who also belonged to the group of “Scarface”. After B.'s murder, the police warned Gordon F. that he is on a death list (F. was sentenced to six years in prison in April 2022 for shooting a friend while under the influence of cocaine).
The liquidation of Rachid Kotar in Amstelveen was probably also related to the feud.
In 2017, there was a failed attack in a café in Marrakech in which an uninvolved boy was shot dead. Mustapha F. was the owner of that café, and most likely the target in that attack. Several Dutch people, including relatives of Ridouan Taghi, have been convicted of that murder .
Requests in Marengo case rejected by court | Judgment date remains unchanged February 8, 2024 The court in Amsterdam decided on Thursday to only use newly submitted documents by the Public Prosecution Service in the Marengo case as evidence if they are exculpatory. The scheduled date for the case's ruling remains in place.
Requests The court made a number of decisions in the case on Thursday. This follows a scheduled hearing in the extra-secure court De Bunker last Tuesday.
In addition to the decision on the newly submitted documents, requests for retranslations of Moroccan documents, requests to hear witnesses, to conduct research into writing style and a request for the decryption of PGP messages have been rejected.
Chats This included chats between key witness Nabil B. and two other suspects, the Razzouki brothers. At the end of 2017, B. chatted extensively with the Razzouki brothers from detention, but not with Ridouan Taghi, as he had previously stated. This is evident from an official report that was added to the Marengo file by the Public Prosecution Service at the end of January.
Striking in these chats are messages from Saïd Razzouki in which he says that neither he nor the key witness had anything to do with one of the murders in Marengo: a mistaken murder in Utrecht on January 12, 2017.
The now readable chats were sent in the period October to mid-December 2017. That was the time when Nabil B. had already made secret statements, but before the moment he signed his deal with the Public Prosecution Service (on December 27, 2017). .
In 2019, B. admitted to using this phone during a public court hearing. Until now, not all chats on that phone had been made readable.
Verdict The court decided on Thursday to maintain the date of the last hearing in the case on February 14, as well as the date of the verdict on February 27. In the Marengo trial, the Public Prosecution Service demands life in prison against Ridouan Taghi and five co-suspects. According to the Public Prosecution Service, they are responsible for six liquidations, three murder attempts and making preparations for another four liquidations.
Jaouad W.: according to justice, main character in murder organization
The police see Joey (Jaouad) W. (44) , who was placed in pre-trial detention again on Tuesday morning, as one of the main characters in the criminal murder organization also called the 26Koper group. These men are said to have carried out murders on behalf of Ridouan Taghi.
W. is now suspected of involvement in the murders of Mohamed Alarasi (January 20, 2014 in Amersfoort), Rinus Moerer (April 14, 2014 in Steenbergen) and Samir Jabli (December 1, 2014 in Amersfoort).
He may also be prosecuted for the double murder along the A27 highway, at a restaurant near Houten, of Pieter Vos and Jaap Zillig in 2011.
Taghi has not yet been charged with any of these five liquidations.
A breakthrough in the 26Koper investigation were the witness statements of Ebrahim B. who felt so unsafe in the summer of 2015 that he reported to a police station and said that he was seriously threatened by Ridouan Taghi's group. He was interrogated several times by the police. B. indicated that he recognized a man who had previously chased him with the car. He identified that man as a 'hitman' of Taghi, and mentioned the name of Joey, a Surinamese from Nieuwegein.
In 2022 Ebrahim Buzhu, nicknamed 'The Butcher', has been found dead in a burnt-out car in southern Spain.
Delano G., the suspected gunman in the attack on Peter R. de Vries, is a cousin of Joey W.
The Central Netherlands Public Prosecution Service cannot say much about the current investigation into the double murder, because it is currently a 'cold case'. The murdered duo Vos and Zillig appeared to have been active in the drug world for years. According to police, the pair had an appointment at the hotel about narcotics. Ultimately, they were coldly shot right in front of dozens of restaurant guests.
The last hearing in the Marengo liquidation process took place on Wednesday. A number of final requests from lawyers were rejected. A number of suspects also took the opportunity to have the last word.
A final word was spoken by suspect Saïd Razzouki, among others. He is suspected of having been Ridouan Taghi's right-hand man: 'I hope you can give a fair trial.'
One of Razzouki's lawyers, Robert van 't Land, stated that parts of conversations by key witness Nabil B. were missing, making it difficult for the court to form an opinion on his reliability.
Mohamed el A. talked a little longer, writes the court reporter of De Telegraaf, Saskia Belleman, on X: 'I have made statements about my role in this case. That wasn't easy. My fate is in your hands.”
El A. asks the court to take his children into account. His daughter was born in May 2019 while her father was incarcerated, and his son is struggling with his father not being home.
Lawyer Guy Weski says there is no point in saying one last word on behalf of Achraf B.: "Your verdict is probably already on the shelf and what he says will no longer have any influence." Achraf B. only wants to say 'that he has never had access to life and death'.
Judgment in the Marengo case will follow on February 27.
Three men were today convicted on appeal for the murder of Rachid Kotar in December 2019. Jonathan C., previously sentenced to 25 years in prison, received 28 years in prison. Jurviën M., who was acquitted in court, was also sentenced to 28 years in prison by the court. Saifeddine M. also now received a prison sentence of 14 years. The shooters' sentences were higher because the Court also found them guilty of the attempted murder of Kotar's 5-year-old son.
Rachid Kotar was murdered on Thursday, December 12, 2019, in the parking lot of the Health City gym in Amstelveen. He was shot and killed around 5:15 PM when he let his then 5-year-old son get into his car. After the murder, the son literally had to step over his father's dead body when leaving the car.
28-year-old Jonathan C. is said to have been the shooter together with Jurviën M. (22). The third suspect, Saifeddine M . (25), according to the judiciary, was the spotter.
"The proven facts are serious and shocking," the Court stated in its ruling. 'There is a terrifying cold-bloodedness, which is seen as completely unconscionable. The convicts and those around them regarded committing serious criminal offenses as a way of life, just like being in serious crime circles. In addition to retaliation, the punishment is also intended to deter others from committing these types of crimes.
The police counted Kotar as part of the group of Samir 'Scarface' B., who was liquidated in Spain in 2014, and his brother Karim 'Taxi' B..
Alleged arms dealer of Limburg Bandidos died February 18, 2024
The court in Maastricht ended the criminal case against alleged arms dealer Johan K. (42) from Geleen on Friday. The man who, according to justice, was the kingpin in international arms trade and had close ties with motorcycle club Bandidos, died a year ago. That's what De Limburger writes .
Formality K. passed away on February 22, 2023. According to his lawyer Bart Welvaart, due to cardiac arrest. Johan K.'s lawyer was in court in Maastricht on Friday to 'assist' his client. Due to the death of car dealer K., his prosecution was canceled, but the hearing still had to go ahead to formally conclude the case. Lawyer Welvaart calls it 'incomprehensible that this case has been at a standstill for so long'.
Seizure In 2015, the judiciary seized K's cars and luxury goods. He is said to have earned approximately 900,000 euros in criminal assets and the judiciary wants that money back. Because the suspect has died and his case has ended, the heirs are entitled to the seized items.
Action day Johan K. was arrested on May 27, 2015 with fourteen Bandidos members during a major action against motorcycle clubs in Limburg. According to the Public Prosecution Service, K. was the kingpin in the international arms trade. The car dealer was not a member of the motorcycle club, but is said to have close ties with members of the Bandidos.
Weapons arsenal K. was associated with five rocket launchers, seven Kalashnikovs, nine machine guns, 30 small arms, two riot guns, two hand grenades and ammunition found during the action . The weapons were found in garages in Geleen, registered in the name of K.
Trailer camp He is also said to be involved in a drug lab, which was found at the caravan camp in Geleen. K. lived at that trailer park. Johan K. is said to have good contacts with William V. and Marco H. , two leaders of the Bandidos. The weapons that K. would supply to the Bandidos would be sold on, among other things, by members of the motorcycle club.
Phone taps The Bandidos who were arrested in the action, including president Harrie Ramakers , were suspected of membership of a criminal organization, drug trafficking, extortion and involvement in a fight in a bar in Sittard . There would be telephone taps as evidence. In 2021, the court in Maastricht sentenced twelve Bandidos members (chapter Sittard) to years in prison for participating in a criminal organization.
Ongoing case After years of investigation, the police and the judiciary ultimately failed to link the weapons to the Bandidos. This made the Geleen weapons case one in itself and the Bandidos investigation became primarily a case that revolved around extortion, threats and abuse. Johan K. was released and his case has been at a standstill ever since. According to De Limburger, it has never become completely clear how exactly that could happen.
Rapper Bigidagoe (26) shot dead in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk !!
Early Sunday morning, 26-year-old gangster rapper Bigidagoe (real name Danzel Silos) was shot dead in Amsterdam. The shooting took place at a business park on the Rhoneweg in Amsterdam-Sloterdijk, on the western edge of the city. No suspects have been arrested yet. Bigidagoe was seriously injured in a shooting in Amsterdam South in August 2020.
Bigidagoe was shot around 5:25 am on the Rhoneweg business park near Amsterdam-Sloterdijk station, where he had just attended a party. He was hit by several bullets near a car in a parking lot and seriously injured and taken to hospital. He died there of his injuries. The police have started a Large-Scale Investigation Team (TGO).
No suspects have been arrested yet. Nothing is yet known about the circumstances of the shooting.
Rising Dutch Rapper Bigidagoe Tragically Shot Dead in Amsterdam Amidst Career Resurgence Discover the life and death of Dutch rapper Bigidagoe, from his rise in the music industry to the shadows of controversy that ultimately led to his tragic end.
26 Feb 2024 06:59 EST
In the dim hours of a Sunday morning, the streets of Amsterdam's Sloterdijk district were shattered by gunfire, marking the end of a brief yet vibrant era in Dutch hip-hop. Danzel Silos, better known by his stage name Bigidagoe, a 26-year-old rapper with aspirations of transcending his turbulent past, was fatally shot at a business park around 5:30 am. Despite desperate attempts to escape the violence that had once again found him, Silos succumbed to his injuries in hospital shortly after. His death not only robs the music industry of a promising talent but also reignites concerns over the intertwining of urban music scenes with criminal entanglements.
A Life Under the Spotlight and Shadows Bigidagoe's journey was one of stark contrasts. On one side, there was the gifted artist, a member of the hip-hop band Zone 6, who had captivated around 120,000 followers on social media with his raw, unfiltered narratives of street life, ambition, and redemption. On the other, there was the young man embroiled in controversy, with a trial for alleged threatening and kidnapping looming on the horizon. In August 2020, Silos narrowly survived an alleged assassination attempt, an incident that he vowed would pivot him towards a future focused solely on music. Yet, the shadows of his past seemed ever-present, culminating in a violent confrontation believed to be linked to a feud with rival rapper Kobus L.
The Investigation Unfolds In the wake of Bigidagoe's untimely demise, Amsterdam Police have launched a full-scale investigation, calling for witnesses and searching for a suspect described only as a black man in dark clothing. The authorities are piecing together the events leading up to the shooting, with particular attention on the rapper's known feuds and previous encounters with violence. As the investigation progresses, fans and the Dutch rap community have taken to social media to express their shock and sorrow, with many paying tribute to Silos's aspirations to lead a life that inspired positivity and change.
Legacy and Reflection Bigidagoe's death raises poignant questions about the challenges faced by artists navigating the precarious intersection of fame and personal turmoil. As fans mourn the loss of a talent taken too soon, there is also a collective reflection on how the music industry, and society at large, can better support individuals seeking to break free from cycles of violence and retribution. Silos's story, while tragically cut short, serves as a stark reminder of the potential for redemption and the harrowing cost of unresolved conflicts.
As the investigation into Bigidagoe's death continues, the music world and his loved ones await answers, hoping that justice will shed light on the circumstances of this devastating loss. In the meantime, Bigidagoe's music and the memories he leaves behind will continue to resonate with those who saw in him the promise of a brighter future.
On Tuesday, February 27, judges in the Marengo trial – a mega process involving 17 defendants, six murders, and the alleged leaders of one of the most violent criminal gangs in Dutch history – will issue their verdict. Here’s what you need to know.
The witnesses who turned against ‘Europe’s biggest drug lord’ and paid with their lives In the shadows of the Dutch underworld, Ridouan Taghi would do anything to protect his identity
Bigidagoe murder and explosions probably due to feud between rap groups Zone 6 and Boats Music The detectives take seriously into account that a long-running conflict in the Amsterdam rap scene is the basis for the murder of rapper Bigidagoe (26). During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, probably in retaliation, there were attacks throughout the city on homes linked to suspect Shairone S. (20).
Amsterdam police say a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Dutch rapper has been arrested in Paris Amsterdam police say that a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Dutch rapper has been arrested on a European warrant at an airport in Paris
ByThe Associated Press February 28, 2024, 3:20 PM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A suspect in the fatal shooting of a Dutch rapper was arrested on a European warrant at an airport in Paris early Wednesday, Amsterdam police said.
The 20-year-old man, whose identity wasn't released, was detained at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to board a flight from Paris to French Guiana in South America, police said in a statement.
Detectives believe he fatally shot 26-year-old Danzel Silos, better known as rapper Bigidagoe, in the early hours of Sunday morning in the Dutch capital.
“The suspect is in detention and will be transferred to judicial officials in Amsterdam. Silos' family has been informed of the arrest in Paris,” police said in a statement.
A major investigation team set up after the slaying is looking into “the background of a possible conflict between rap groups,” the statement added.
Overnight, explosions damaged homes at three locations in north and southeast Amsterdam and the word “war” was spray-painted on walls. Police said they were investigating possible links to Silos' death.
Recording with Peter R. de Vries reveals: Khalid Kasem had contact with Ridouan Taghi In a recorded conversation with Peter R. de Vries, Khalid Kasem says that he had direct contact with Ridouan Taghi, probably at a time when he was still on the run. Presenter and former lawyer Kasem previously denied that he maintained contacts with Taghi and his organization. He also says that he acted as a lawyer for Raffaele Imperiale, a mafia boss and a criminal business partner of Taghi.
Secret tapes: 'Khalid Kasem had direct contact with fugitive Taghi' OUR REPORTERS
Modified: 47 min ago1 hour agoinland _ AMSTERDAM - Khalid Kasem had direct contact with Ridouan Taghi, probably at a time when he was still on the run. The AD reported this on Tuesday based on a number of conversations recorded by Peter R. de Vries at his law office. Kasem previously denied that he had contacts with Taghi and his criminal organization.
The AD was previously not allowed to publish this after Royce de Vries won summary proceedings on the issue. Last week, the court of appeal reversed that verdict. The newspaper published the previously offending article on its site on Tuesday about a number of conversations secretly recorded at the law firm De Vries and Kasem.
Mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale During one of the conversations, Kasem also admitted, according to AD, that he acted as a lawyer for mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale, who, according to the justice department, worked closely with Taghi at the time. Peter R. de Vries – who at that time was director of the law firm of his son Royce de Vries and Khalid Kasem – said he knew nothing about this, according to a recorded conversation with Kasem.
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“For Royce and for me, the question arises as to whether things have happened in the past with you and the Taghi clan (…) that we now have to say 'we need to know about that'. Because I was surprised that you told me that you assisted Raffaele Imperiale," De Vries says on a tape in the possession of the AD.
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“I never heard anything about that. And neither does Royce. And in fact, we were convinced that you were on holiday in Dubai at the time.” According to Kasem, there was not much going on and it was only later that he realized that there was a link between Taghi and Imperiale.
Inez Weski According to the AD, the recorded conversations also show that Kasem was indeed approached by gang members to provide information after the murder squad attributed to Taghi was rounded up. Kasem allegedly did not pass on any information, but said he contacted lawyer Inez Weski, who did not yet play a role in the criminal proceedings.
Kasem previously denied ties with Taghi's organization, including in an interview with de Volkskrant. “The fact is that I know them all,” Kasem said on the tape recordings.
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Legal profession under magnifying glass again after reports of bribery and leaks: 'You will get me released' Shurandy S., the murderer of the brother of key witness Nabil B., turns out to be a childhood friend of Kasem. “They are all boys I grew up with, so that makes it crazy.”
Kasem admitted during one of the recorded conversations that he had recently had contact with Taghi. According to the AD, in the recorded conversation Kasem probably looked back on the incident in May 2019, when Peter R. de Vries announced that he was on a death list and then received a letter from Taghi in which he denied being behind murder plans towards De Vries .
Khalid Kasem and Royce de Vries accuse AD in responses of sensational journalism and false accusations. According to the latter, the AD bases itself on stolen confidential conversations that were conducted in the privacy of the office. BnnVara says it is hearing about the findings for the first time and cannot say anything substantive about it. According to the broadcaster, this concerns work that Kasem performed before he joined BnnVara.
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Khalid Kasem case litmus test for bar association Various parties, including the National Criminal Investigation Department and the dean of the Bar Association, are currently conducting investigations into the office of De Vries and Khalid Kasem following previous reports that Kasem allegedly bribed a judicial officer. Kasem denies that too. He only wanted to reduce a client's high collection debt.
Criminal who was wanted in the Netherlands released by Spanish authorities A court in Spain released a criminal following his January arrest, even though he was wanted by authorities in the Netherlands. When Karim B. was taken into custody, Spanish police said he was "the most wanted and dangerous criminal in the Netherlands."
Spain's National Police arrested the Amsterdam man and five others as part of an investigation that began in June 2018. They were arrested in Malaga and Melilla on accusations of laundering over six million euros in revenue earned from drug trafficking, and allegations of participating in organized crime.
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) immediately filed an extradition request, but he was released from pre-trial detention, the OM told NOS this week. He is still considered a criminal suspect in Spain, and the extradition request has not been withdrawn despite the fact he is no longer in jail.
When Spanish police arrested the six individuals, they also froze a large number of assets, including three million euros in dozens of bank accounts, and 172 properties valued at a total of 50 million euros. Approximately 75 thousand euros in cash was seized, along with 10 thousand euros in jewellery and two firearms.
Spanish police said B. is "one of the leaders of the so-called Mocro Maffia, considered by the Netherlands as its most wanted and dangerous criminal." He was also alleged to be "a long time drug trafficker in the Costa del Sol" who brought together cocaine traffickers for a significant fee. The six were believed to have been running a Hawala-style system where money and assets are shifted around repeatedly as part of a laundering scheme, with ties to Morocco, the Dominican Republic, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands and Spain.
B.'s brother, Samir, was assassinated in Marbella a decade ago as he walked out of a shopping center. Authorities speculated that Karim took over Samir's cocaine trafficking operation.
Considered a rival to convicted organized crime boss Ridouan Taghi, B. may have been a recent assassination target.
The Netherlands in the top three of countries where the most cocaine has been seized March 7, 2024
The Netherlands is one of the three countries in Europe where the most cocaine has been seized in the past two years. This is stated in a report on the European drug market, which Europol made public on Thursday. It also states that young people who are tempted to become involved in organized drug crime must be offered alternatives.
by Joost van der Wegen
In 2021, a total of 303 tonnes of cocaine was seized by EU Member States. Most cocaine was intercepted in Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. According to Europol, statistics show that the number of seizures will continue to increase in 2022.
The large quantities of the drug mainly enter Europe via the seaports in these three countries. This has led to the greatest availability of coke in Europe ever.
Corruption Corruption and intimidation of port employees make cocaine smuggling possible, which mainly takes place via sea containers. According to Europol, corruption also penetrates other layers of society.
The cocaine market in Europe is dominated by criminal networks, which make enormous profits. Their trade is made possible by intermediaries and traders who work for them, with connections between them that often change in form. Serious violence in relation to the cocaine trade appears to be increasing in the places where it comes ashore, but it also affects society as a whole. According to the European police organization.
Labs The report also mentions the Netherlands as a country where methamphetamine production takes place on an industrial scale. The exchange of knowledge between Dutch and Mexican producers has led to better quality and increased production of crystal meth. Mexican chefs are no longer often found in labs, because the Dutch have already adopted the knowledge. Europol warns that Mexican producers are also capable of illegally introducing fentanyl onto the market, as they have done in the US.
Tackle it Europol recommends better monitoring of the drug market in Europe, freeing up more capacity to tackle large criminal organizations, and also recommends making it more difficult for criminals in an administrative sense. In addition, there must be more controls at the ports, and more prevention and warning programs must be introduced to prevent young people from being seduced into crime by criminal organizations.
The director of the European drug monitoring organization EMCDDA said in a commentary that Europe is at a crossroads with increasing violence from drug trafficking and will have to tackle drug crime in different ways. One such way is by offering alternatives to young people who may be tempted by criminal organizations .
Mexican narcos increase methamphetamine production in Belgium and Holland Jean Georges Almendras 08 March 2024 Arthur Debruyne presents his book: “The Mexican method. The invisible side of crystal in the Netherlands”
“I found myself investigating the case of a shipment of methamphetamines arriving in Uruguay. A historic case, because never before had a shipment of synthetic drugs coming from Europe been intercepted. In Uruguay it's always the other way around, cocaine starts from there. This happened in May 2020, in the port of Montevideo, where a load of 42 kg was intercepted. of methamphetamine from the Netherlands. This shows that this new methamphetamine trade in Belgium and the Netherlands has had significant growth thanks to the presence of Mexicans who are also weaving new export networks, new routes to places not previously frequented. This is due to greater production, because the Mexicans brought the know-how to produce much larger quantities than what was known before."
The person speaking to me in these terms is a Belgian journalist who lives in Argentina and who last year, during research for a book of which he is the author, contacted me and I offered him information on issues related to drug trafficking in South-Italy. America, Uruguay and Italy. The colleague is Arthur Debruyne who I interviewed a few days ago in Buenos Aires. On this occasion he gave me the good news of the launch of his book ("The Mexican method. The invisible side of crystal in the Netherlands" ) , for the moment in Brussels and Holland, announcing that in the next few months it would be translated into Spanish.
In a global context, as regards transnational drug trafficking (and where the 'Ndrangheta - a long-standing Italian criminal organization - is master, possessing a very clear monopoly of the routes in Latin America, where voluminous loads of cocaine transit to different points of the Europe), having the opportunity to dialogue with a colleague who has explored an equally worrying aspect, such as that of the production of methamphetamine in Belgium and Holland, becomes a highly valuable contribution that takes us into the depths of another criminal iceberg. Uniceberg spread across the world affecting different human societies, each with its own characteristics. It is looming that the production of these crystals - within drug consumption markets - could prove to be a potential competitor to the cocaine industry, globally.
In a calm tone, Artuhr Debruyne goes back to the period before his project. He cuts to the chase: “ I lived in Mexico from the beginning of 2017 until March last year. I settled there as a correspondent for the Belgian media, especially the Netherlands, for seven years, for a newspaper that deals with economic and financial topics, so I also found myself covering politics and other topics. In Mexico, I quickly realized that the violence of drug trafficking cannot be ignored. I realized that any topic, even that of immigration, for example, when I went to interview immigrants, traveling around the country, you realize that there are drug trafficking gangs, there are criminal structures that dedicated themselves to human trafficking or kidnapped immigrants to extort them.
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In Mexico, wherever I went I faced the problem of the absence of the State in the face of the advancement of organized crime. So little by little I explored topics such as drug trafficking, delinquency, insecurity. And a few years ago I realized that they were coming from Mexican Belgium and Holland to produce methamphetamine. The authorities of the two countries dismantled methamphetamine laboratories and there were always Mexican cooks. I realize the omnipresence of organized crime in Mexico and everything that disappearances and murders imply. Mexico is a country where things happen that would be unthinkable in other countries, for example Belgium and Holland ."
Deeply motivated by the journalistic spirit of giving himself answers and then offering them to the world, on an extremely hot and harmful topic, the idea of ??this - not at all easy - project of his began to take shape.
“ From my office in Mexico I realized that Mexican cartels are establishing themselves in Belgium and Holland and I decided to investigate the topic. At that time methamphetamine was almost not produced in Belgium and Holland and, at that point, I said to myself that the Mexicans certainly had a very important role in the theme and hence the title of the book 'The Mexican Method', because those chefs Mexicans are masters of a production method, a synthesis method, which they have perfected over the years, naturally in Mexico, because Mexico has been exporting methamphetamines to the USA since the 2000s and beyond. It is precisely in Mexico, thanks to widespread corruption, that the narcos were allowed to reach the power they have today, and it is there where many young people have developed certain skills to produce drugs for the US market and then expand to Belgium and Holland, and obviously in other places in the world ”.
Does the Italian 'Ndrangheta contribute to the methamphetamine trade through links with Dutch narcos? The 'Ndrangheta doesn't figure in my book. They specialize in cocaine. The production of synthetic drugs in Belgium and the Netherlands, although these countries have specialized in the production of synthetic drugs for decades now, the money circulating in this area is lower when compared to the money circulating through cocaine trafficking. So, you know that ports like Antwerp in Belgium and others in Holland are the main ones for the entry of cocaine into Europe and there are obviously famous cases, there are famous criminals, who are known to work with Italian mafiosi. I must say that I have found no evidence, I have found no indications, of the involvement of Italian mafias. It is a traffic dominated by Dutch narcos, often second or third generation narcos who have been producing drugs since the seventies and eighties, and who really dominate that traffic. Previously it was believed... when those Mexican narcos appeared, there was a certain concern, that they were Mexican cartels, that they even had a design to dominate the production of drugs in Belgium and Holland, but it was always the opposite. It was the Dutch narcos who used their connections with the Mexican ones and then put them aside. It's actually a difficult business in which people from outside to identify themselves, be they Mexicans or Italians, it's a very hermetic trade. It is the Dutch who dominate the entry into the country of chemists who know where to find places to build laboratories, speak the language, have networks. It's really a very very airtight trade as I said before. Synthetic drugs arrive all over the world from Belgium and Holland, ecstasy tablets are exported to South America, the United States and Asia. They actually dominate the production of synthetic drugs.
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Do the earnings have to be exorbitant? Yes, of course, because methamphetamine is a drug in high demand worldwide and the price is higher than that of other drugs. For this reason the Dutch wanted to work with this drug.
Competition against cocaine? “Globally, the amphetamine market is much larger than that of other synthetic drugs, such as ecstasy or classic amphetamine. However, there is competition with cocaine. Even the UN says crystal is a cheaper alternative to cocaine. Cocaine in European countries continues to be a status drug, dear. Methamphetamine is getting cheaper and cheaper. So yes, there is some competition.”
Is the political system in Holland and Belgium involved in these activities, does it have links to Mexican cartels? Yes, yes. In Belgium and Holland corruption exists. But corruption does not reach the same levels as in other countries where, for example, we have seen cases such as the Minister of National Defense who was found to be involved in drug trafficking, this does not happen in the Netherlands. It is perhaps a micro corruption that mainly affects key figures to bring in the cocaine, such as Customs officials, Police, but there have been no cases of high officials such as police chiefs, ministers, secretaries, who are involved in corruption cases, but obviously drug trafficking cannot function in Belgium and Holland without the collaboration of certain key elements, especially in the drug import infrastructure, i.e. the ports. There have been cases of policemen and investigators filtering information to drug traffickers, but there is not the same level of generalized corruption and corrupt judges. Fortunately, the rule of law continues to function.
The case of the journalist Peter R. Di Vries, murdered in the Netherlands on 6 July 2021, how do we place it in this context of Dutch narcos, why was he killed? Peter R. Di Vries had a specific role, he was not just a journalist. He was the trusted person of a key witness in a case against a major drug trafficker, Ridouan Tagui, who had had links to Italy. So Petes R. Di Bris was a journalist, but he was also a person involved in the trial of a drug trafficker. He was not a witness, but a trusted person, it is a legal form in Holland similar to a lawyer, he is an councilor, he was the councilor of a key witness against a violent drug trafficker who had previously murdered a lawyer. Even well-informed journalists in the Netherlands say that Peter R. Di Bris was not murdered for his role as a journalist, but because he was a consultant. The case had a lot of repercussions. In the Netherlands, many important politicians are coming to the conclusion that drug trafficking violence is increasing more and more and seems to have no solution. The conclusion they reach is that prohibitionism doesn't work, because large shipments of cocaine are intercepted and this only causes conflicts between criminals, they kill each other. The conclusion is perhaps correct, they spend thousands and millions of euros annually in the fight against drug trafficking, and the traffic has not decreased even by a kilo, the system continues to work. Maybe something isn't working. But I think that perhaps the solution is the wrong one, because furthermore, cocaine is not produced in Holland, it is produced in South American countries that continue to have the same problems and they are the ones who pay.
So how do we address this problem in the world? I believe there is something important. Sometimes journalism tends to focus on the leaders, on El Chapo in Mexico, Marset in Uruguay. He focuses on those figures, because he obviously believes that he is more interesting or flashier, and that he will generate more clicks, an anti-hero. We focus on the pawns, which as such are replaceable. I believe that in any place, if there is drug trafficking, it is because there are key figures in the public sphere, in power, in politics, who allow it and who even exploit drug trafficking. So I believe it is very important to understand this, to focus more on corruption, the involvement of the state. You could even look at it another way. Sometimes in Belgium it is always said that it is the narco who infiltrates, corrupts the state, the narco is seen as the active actor. I would say that you can see it the other way around, that they are generals, ministers, presidents who take advantage of the narco, who see it as loot, it is the narco who works for the State, for Power and not the other way around, they are partners. I believe that journalism often falls short of this vision, and that journalism should shed more light on state involvement."
Dutch detectives admit they are struggling to cope with a rash of drugs-related explosions it's crazy all over the country they are blowing up homes and businesses.
Drug boss Marcel D. from Nieuwegein, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison in March 2021, has been sentenced on appeal to 14 years in prison for his role in the liquidation of Wout Sabee in 2016 in De Meern and a previously failed assassination attempt on Sabee in 2014. That writes RTV Utrecht .
Pgp phones The court previously ruled that there was insufficient evidence that Marcel D. was the one who ordered Sabee's murder, but according to the court in Arnhem, it concluded that D. did give the order. The evidence against D. comes from decrypted chat messages sent via encrypted PGP telephones. After Sabee survived a previous liquidation attempt in 2014, he made statements to the police. In those conversations he mentioned Marcel D. as a likely client.
Sabee arranged drug transports for D.'s criminal organization from 2013 onwards and is said to have been held responsible for the disappearance of part of an intercepted transport.
Drug transports Marcel D. was sentenced to 16 years in prison by the court in Utrecht in March 2021 for leading a criminal organization that, together with others, was responsible for several drug transports from the Netherlands to Great Britain. In the period between 2014 and 2016, the suspects exported at least 2,500 kilos of cocaine and heroin. Marcel D. is seen by the judiciary as a contact of Ridouan Taghi.
Split off Because D. was previously sentenced to 16 years in prison for drug trafficking, the Advocate General (the public prosecutor in an appeal) split the cases during the appeal. 16 years were now demanded for the drug cases and 14 years in prison for the liquidation suspicions. The court agrees. D. must now serve a total of 30 years in prison.
Marcel D. was convicted for leading a gang that was involved in drug transports, possession of weapons, liquidations, money laundering and fencing.
In addition to D.,there are the other Nieuwegein leader Erik W., Adrianus V. from Oss, Nick S. from Vasselder and Roger A. from Wassenaar.
Anouar Taghi gets 26 years in prison for role in murder of lawyer Wiersum March 15, 2024
The court in Amsterdam imposed 26 years in prison on Friday on 30-year-old Anouar Taghi for, among other things, preparing the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum. The court considers it proven that Ridouan Taghi's cousin was the leader of a criminal organization that was involved in the preparation of murder, stealing cars and attempted serious assault.
The sentences of the eight co-defendants in this case range from seven years to 208 days. The court imposed three years in prison and eleven months on Krystian M. , against whom the Public Prosecution Service demanded a life sentence in January for the murder of crime journalist Peter R. de Vries.
The Public Prosecution Service on Monday demanded up to nine years in prison against members of a courier network that moved almost 500 million euros in cash for criminals. Eight suspects are on trial this week at the Den Bosch court. They are said to have been led by 52-year-old Albanian Greek Thanas B. , who was extradited by Greece last year and is on trial in a separate case.
FBI The investigation by the Underground Banking Task Force (TF-UB) started with chat messages from the communication platform ANOM, obtained from the American FBI. It showed that between June 2020 and March 2021, the group engaged in the collection and distribution of enormous amounts of cash on a daily basis; so-called picks & kicks. There appears to be a well-oiled network of couriers behind this who transfer bags full of cash in public places in the Netherlands. The suspects use 'tokens' characteristic of underground banking as proof of payment. In total, more than 246,130,620 euros were raised (picked) and an amount of 247,830,600 euros was given away (kicked) in eight months.
'The Hague office' and 'Amsterdam office' The organization had two locations serving different areas; 'The Hague office' and 'Amsterdam office'. In reality, warehouses in which criminal money was counted and redistributed. The Hague office turns out to be a warehouse in Wateringen that was even robbed. During a search, the police found several hidden spaces and a money counting machine.
Hollander, a question: why are the defendants' last names often hidden (except for the first letter) in the Dutch news? I mean, if they aren't convicted yet, I can understand, but after the sentence has been upheld, they can't sue for slander anymore if somebody calls them criminals; so unless they are in witness protection, why do the news hide the last names?
Hollander, a question: why are the defendants' last names often hidden (except for the first letter) in the Dutch news? I mean, if they aren't convicted yet, I can understand, but after the sentence has been upheld, they can't sue for slander anymore if somebody calls them criminals; so unless they are in witness protection, why do the news hide the last names?
In the Netherlands we have had the so-called “initials rule” since 1953. This rule was drawn up by the Dutch editors-in-chief as a form of self-regulation after pressure from politicians under the guise “ The media must report, not judge ”. In practice, this rule means that suspects and convicts are referred to by their first name and the first letter of their surname.
The initials rule is not absolute. For example, according to the Guidelines of the Press Council, an exception is made if:
the name is an essential component of the reporting; not mentioning the name serves no purpose due to the general reputation of the person concerned; failure to mention the name may cause confusion with others who could be foreseeably harmed as a result; mentioning the name is done in the context of investigation reporting; the person concerned seeks public access. The exceptions leave room for broad interpretation. For example, it is said that Volkert van der Graaf sought publicity through his act and in the current digital age, where one is often only a few mouse clicks away from the identity of a suspect or convicted person, it can quickly be stated that the requirement has been met. second requirement. In recent years, there has been increasing discussion about the application of the initials rule. The initials rule would have a criminalizing effect (it is for this reason that the Telegraaf continues to say Volkert van der G. stiffly), restrict the provision of information, and do not fit in with the custom of foreign media nor with the call from society for a tougher policy against crime. The initials rule is increasingly being ignored by the media and seems to have lost its practical significance. One can therefore rightly wonder whether the initials rule is still relevant today.
NOS News • Yesterday, 9:44 PM Law firm Ficq & Partners is leaving the Marengo liquidation process
The lawyers of the Ficq & Partners firm are stopping the Marengo process. They will no longer assist their three clients in the appeal, lawyer Nico Meijering confirms after reports from the ANP news agency. When asked, Meijering would not say why the law firm dropped its defense.
The office announced in May last year that it would no longer assist suspects in lawsuits in which a crown witness plays a role. It is "irresponsible and unworkable," lawyers Flokstra and Meijering said at the time.
After the Public Prosecution Service announced in 2018 that Nabil B. was a key witness in the Marengo case, his brother, his lawyer Derk Wiersum and his confidant Peter R. de Vries were murdered.
The Marengo criminal case is largely based on information from Nabil B. He made incriminating statements about his co-suspects and, according to the court, this led to the solution of five murders. At the end of February, all seventeen suspects in the liquidation trial were found guilty.
Former best friend Mohamed R., one of Ficq & Partners' clients, was sentenced to 27 years in prison. He was the best friend of Nabil B., who also made incriminating statements about him during the trial. The other two suspects who were assisted by Ficq & Partners received prison sentences of 23 years, 4 months and 5.5 years respectively.
Main suspect Ridouan Taghi and two co-suspects have been sentenced to life imprisonment. All three will appeal against that ruling. The Public Prosecution Service will appeal against the verdict against seven suspects in the Marengo trial.
The appeal will begin with a preparatory hearing in about two weeks. It is not yet known who will assist the three clients of Ficq & Partners there.
Jamal Taghi, Ridouan's eldest son, was linked to El Chapo, according to justice. He is now in detention in Dubai. The Netherlands has requested extradition, but this has not yet happened. The evidence in the case has been distilled from the hundreds of millions of messages from messaging services Ennetcom, EncroChat and Sky ECC that were cracked by the police.
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Ferry Bouman pales in comparison to the real Janus April 17, 2024
“The Little One” was the international nickname of Janus van Wesenbeeck. He is small in stature, but became one of the largest drug traffickers in Europe. Character Ferry Bouman from the Netflix series Undercover is just an excerpt, you could conclude from the book “ Drug Baron ” by crime journalist Vico Olling. The reality of the laconic violence, shootings and the brightly colored camper life in the book leaves Undercover pale.
Van Wesenbeeck (1961) is given ample opportunity to speak in the book.
His story is synchronous with important developments in the history of Dutch caravan residents. With the Caravan Act of 1968, the government wanted to concentrate and control the “travellers”. Large camps such as the Doolplein in Eindhoven were the result. This is where Janus was raised and was taught the norms and values. There are more of these in the microcosm of the caravan world than the ordinary citizen can imagine.
Many “Kampers” chose to earn a living independently. In the words of Van Wesenbeeck:
Travelers first started with waste paper, rags and iron. Everyone turned their noses up at that trade, except us. Until the government took that away. That's when we started the used car business. That has also been taken away. That's when we got into weed. They took that away from us too. Yes, and then we got into hard drugs.
Hammering away Van Wesenbeeck tells many stories from the past, where it is striking that from an early age the men in Janus' world have been quick to take action if something does not please them.
He calls drug trafficking 'an addictive game' that has 'literally cost him a lot of free time'.
Fugitive Belgian drug lord Tom M. (48) arrested in Berlin April 19, 2024
Fugitive Belgian drug lord Tom M. (48) arrested in Berlin The 48-year-old fugitive Belgian drug lord Tom M. was arrested in Berlin on Thursday evening. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison by the Amsterdam court in 2019 for international drug smuggling. Last year he also received eight years in prison in the major Dutch criminal case Taxus involving the convicted drug trafficker Piet S. In Belgium, M. has to serve another eight years in prison.
Tom M., who had been detained in Dubai for a long time in the past, had been on the run from the Dutch authorities since 2020, after he was convicted in absentia by the Amsterdam court in 2019 for trafficking in cocaine and heroin, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium , money laundering and possession of ammunition.
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