Fugitive Belgian drug lord Tom M. (48) arrested in Berlin
April 19, 2024

Fugitive Belgian drug lord Tom M. (48) arrested in Berlin
The 48-year-old fugitive Belgian drug lord Tom M. was arrested in Berlin on Thursday evening. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison by the Amsterdam court in 2019 for international drug smuggling. Last year he also received eight years in prison in the major Dutch criminal case Taxus involving the convicted drug trafficker Piet S. In Belgium, M. has to serve another eight years in prison.

Tom M., who had been detained in Dubai for a long time in the past, had been on the run from the Dutch authorities since 2020, after he was convicted in absentia by the Amsterdam court in 2019 for trafficking in cocaine and heroin, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium , money laundering and possession of ammunition.

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