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.
