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.