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.

Stef Muller.

https://www.vechtsportinfo.nl/nieuws/bekende-kickbokstrainer-stef-muller-op-straat-doodgeschoten/

Sounds like a hit in the local Brabant underworld.

Tonight a man was shot dead in Boxmeer, it's the fifth murder in Brabant in a month.

The murder in Boxmeer seems to have something to do with the LGBT scene. Apparently he was pimping out asylum seekers.

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.

The Hague Godfather Piet Schneider (64) arrested.

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.

The Colombians warned the Dutch police Saïd Razzouki may have organized new attacks from his Colombian cell, he got a hold on some phones.

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 Costa”), 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.

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.

Hit list with 18 names found in investigation into Rotterdam cocaine world: report

https://nltimes.nl/2020/11/27/hit-list-18-names-found-investigation-rotterdam-cocaine-world-report

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 “Quick”. 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.

According to Justice Piet Schneider was behind one of biggest cocaine hauls in the Netherlands the 7000 kilos were seized in December 2017.

So Piet's not planning retirement anytime soon...

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.

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.