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.