'Record catch of cocaine in Uruguay from Bolle Jos'
July 1, 2023

A record cocaine catch in 2019 in Uruguay of 4418 kilos , according to a police file held by Het Parool, belonged to the group of “Bolle” Jos Leijdekkers. It concerned cocaine that was hidden in four containers with soybean meal, and should have been on its way from Montevideo to the port of Lomé in Togo.

Het Parool writes that the criminal investigation department attributes a PGP message about this to Jos Leijdekkers: 'Have those Togo lost 4000st pff' (…) 'Hard blow.'

That catch was in December 2019. In that same month, according to the file, the group lost 316 kilos in Rotterdam and another batch that would have been lost at sea. Leijdekkers is also said to have communicated about those with co-suspects, including Ocean S. and Isaac B. .

B. and S. have been convicted of large-scale cocaine trafficking and are both imprisoned. Jos Leijdekkers is internationally recognized. B. was recently arrested in Turkey.

The suspects do not seem to be too concerned about the losses, which were worth well over 100 million euros.