Fury over human trafficker escape
MPs have demanded justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin explain how a convicted and violent human trafficker came to be given a few days leave from prison and then vanished.
Saban Baran is currently appealing against a 7.5 year jail sentence for forcing over 100 women into prostitution, together with his brother.
Baran had [...]
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
Fourteen Dutch drugs couriers have been arrested in an Italian police investigation into an international cocaine-smuggling gang, news agency ANP reports.
The couriers brought the drug hidden in double-bottomed suitcases from Argentina to Belgium and the Netherlands via Italy. The arrests took place over a seven month period.
In total, 55 kgs of cocaine were seized with [...]
Tags: Cocaine, drug trafficking
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 [...]
Over 30 percent more forged euro notes have been seized in the Netherlands in the first half of 2009 as compared to the last six months of 2008.
The Netherlands – About 30 percent more fake euro bills have been seized in the first half of 2009 than in the last six months of 2008, announced [...]
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
A shooting in Amsterdam’s Rivierenbuurt neighbourhood on Sunday night, which left two people dead and two seriously injured, was probably gang-related, police said on Monday.
All four victims of the mystery gunmen were men.
Police were alerted to a shooting at a house early on Sunday evening. They found one injured man outside the front door, the [...]
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