Police in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg arrested 80 people in a four-day cross-border drugs operation that ended on Sunday, a Dutch police statement said.
The operation that focused on shared border areas and transport routes netted 10 kilograms of cocaine, five grams of heroine, 22 grams of hashish and 277 grams of cannabis, it [...]
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Convicted human trafficker Saban B has disappeared after being temporarily released from custody because of ‘personal circumstances’, the NRC reports on Wednesday.
“B, who is currently appealing against a 7.5 year jail term handed down last year, was released for a week, the paper says, without giving further details.
He and his brother were [...]
Tags: human trafficking
A member of a notorious Italian crime syndicate, sentenced in his homeland to life imprisonment for murder, has been arrested in the Netherlands, Dutch prosecutors said Friday.
The 29-year-old man, Gianluca Racco, was arrested Thursday in Aalsmeer in the west of the country.
According to Italy’s ANSA news agency, He is listed as one of Italy’s 100 [...]
Tags: 'ndrangheta, mafia
Friday 07 August 2009
One of the co-defendants of crime boss Willem Holleeder has been given 240 hours community service and a four-month conditional prison sentence for money laundering of €1.3m, report various papers on Friday.
A court in Haarlem ruled on Thursday that Orminda S, described in the Volkskrant as the girlfriend of Holleeder, was given [...]
Tags: money laundering, organized crime
Dutch authorities confiscated the rough equivalent of 2 million packs of cigarettes from a warehouse in Breda.
The Hague – Tax authorities seized 38 million illegal cigarettes in a Breda warehouse, announced the ministry of finance Wednesday. It was the largest amount of cigarettes confiscated at one time by the economic and fiscal control service, FIOD-ECD.
The [...]
Packages of cocaine and cocaine-cutter equipment were washed ashore at five different beaches over the weekend.
Kijkduin – A stroll on the beach at the Dutch seaside resort of Kijkduin led to the discovery of a series of packages of cocaine on Saturday, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reports.
The person who found the first package took it [...]
Tags: Cocaine, drug trafficking
The Dutch council of state backs Amsterdam’s city council to close down Yab Yum.
Amsterdam – The Dutch council of state rules Wednesday that one of Amsterdam’s luxurious brothel should remain close definitively as ordered by the city council in 2008.
The notorious brothel, Yab Yum, lost its operating licence in January 2008 after authorities said the [...]
Amsterdam’s appeal court on Friday upheld the nine-year jail sentence imposed on Willem Holleeder for blackmail, membership of a criminal organisation, and money laundering.
Holleeder was first found guilty of blackmailing three property tycoons in 2007. That trial was the result of a three-year investigation into Holleeder, who was jailed in the 1980s for kidnapping beer [...]
The Netherlands should raise the age limit for buying alcohol and soft drugs from 16 to 18. A government commission is set to make this recommendation on Thursday, the Volkskrant reports.
The commission, set up to investigate the country’s drugs policy, says drink and drugs should have the same age limit to reinforce the message that [...]
Escort bureaus all over the country should have to follow Amsterdam’s lead and request a formal operating licence if they want to advertise their services, Amsterdam officials said on Thursday.
Since February, escort bureaus in the capital have needed to apply for a licence and their owners are vetted to make sure they have no criminal [...]
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