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.