The 57-year-old Canadian suspected drug tycoon Tse Chi Lop may be extradited to Australia. The court in Rotterdam determined this on Friday. The man was arrested in the Netherlands earlier this year at the request of the Australian authorities, who want to prosecute him for possible involvement in drug smuggling.

The Canadian was on his way from Taiwan - where he lived - to his home country of Canada on Friday, January 22. The arrest was at Schiphol, where he made a stopover.

Tse risks a life sentence in Australia and fears an unfair trial. “Mass media call me the king of a drug cartel, but that's not right. I am afraid that if I go to Australia and there is a trial, the judge will treat me unjustly with colored glasses. Media spread rumors that are not the truth, that's why I'm very afraid," Tse told the court in Rotterdam last week.

However, the judge thinks otherwise and assumes "trust in the Australian legal system and a fair trial in that country."

Australia formally asks for Tse's extradition because he allegedly imported several dozen kilos of hard drugs in 2013. But according to Australian media, the drug lord would be responsible for 70 percent of all drugs entering Australia. Tse's lawyer André Seebregts therefore expects the Australians to expand the charges considerably later.

"It has not yet been revealed whether the suspect will be prosecuted in Australia for more offenses," said the judge. “If Australia is planning to do that, then it can't just happen. Australia then needs permission from the Dutch Minister of Justice and Security.”