Tuesday 21 April 2009
The public prosecution department has called on appeal court judges in Rotterdam to jail suspected crime boss Willem Holleeder for 10 years for blackmailing three people.
Holleeder was sentenced to nine years in jail for blackmail at the end of 2007. Both he and the public prosecution department are appealing against that verdict.
At [...]
Thursday 23 April 2009
Some 200 young girls were forced into prostitution by so-called boyfriends in 2007, double the 2006 figure, junior justice minister Nebahat Albayrak told MPs on Wednesday.
Officially pimps - known as loverboys in Dutch - are seen as people traffickers.
Mo Li and Lois X. Ding, students at the Haagse Hogeschool, were awarded a trip to Italy this May as a part of a youth art contest, Your Fight. The contest was organised in conjunction with a Season of Legality social campaign event organised by the Freedom Legality and Rights in Europe (FLARE) Network, Global [...]
On the 24th of March 2009, FLARE successfully launched the ‘Season of Legality’ campaign at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The event began with Hans-Gert Pöttering, the President of the EP, reconfirming the staunch support of European and International institutions for FLARE and its initiatives.
Events will be held in 33 countries in Europe and the [...]
Monday 30 March 2009
The trial of 10 men and one woman charged with at least seven gangland killings resumes in the Amsterdam high security court on Monday, with a former gang member expected to take the witness box.
Peter de la Serpe, who is suspected of involvement in several killings, has turned state’s evidence and will [...]
Friday 20 March 2009
A 71-year-old Dutchman has been jailed for 7.5 years in Iceland for smuggling drugs on to the island on board his camper van.
The 190 kilos of hashish, 1.5 kilos of marijuana and 1.3 kilos of cocaine formed the biggest drugs haul in the island´s history, the NRC says. The Icelander who ordered [...]
Wednesday 25 March 2009
The Dutch state has been ordered to pay a former police informant €50,000 in compensation for the psychiatric damage he suffered following his involvement in undercover operations, reports news agency ANP.
The man was used during controversial drugs trade operations in the 1990s but let go once the public prosecution department stopped the [...]
A total of 362 illegal marijuana plantations with a total of 106,500 plants were discovered by police and other officials in The Hague last year.
The raids led to 80 investigations for social security fraud, resulting in the pay-back of €154,000.
The city council says the plantations form a danger to others because of the smell and [...]
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