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A Dutch court on Monday confiscated $ 112 million in bad profits obtained from one of the most notorious drug traffickers in Europe, which is believed to be hidden in Sierra Leone.

Rotterdam court confiscated the illegal assets accumulated by Jos Leijdekkersalso known as “Bolle Jos” or “Chubby Jos”, of Cocaine Trafficking and Gold Purchases, but left aside the claims not proven on luxury goods.

“With today’s ruling, the court has determined how much money L. (Leijdekkers) won through criminal activities,” said the court ruling. “The total is almost 127 million euros, of which it must pay more than 96 million euros to the State.”

Leijdekkers did not attend the audience and was not represented by a lawyer. The court confirmed that the case was heard in the absence.

Prosecutors initially He looked for a $ 250 million record in convulsions of criminal assets. But the court ruled that they had used a legal basis too broad and reduced the amount, applying more strict criteria and excluding several unseeded claims.

The prosecutors said last month that Leijdekkers had obtained 114 million euros of 14 cocaine shipments for less than a year.

According to intercepted communications, the 34 -year -old also spent 47 million euros in 975 kilograms of gold for less than six months.

A Rotterdam court last June sentenced Leijdekkers in absence to 24 years in prison for ordering murder and organizing cocaine shipments.

It is on the whitest list of Europol, with the European Police agency that offers more than $ 225,000 for information that led to its arrest.

In January, the Dutch authorities said they were “absolutely safe” that he was hiding in Sierra Leone. The BBC reported that Dutch prosecutor Wim de Bruin said that the fugitive return to the Netherlands was “the highest priority.”

Apparently, the images show Leijdekkers in the company of officials as high as President Julius Maada Bio have caused speculation that the cocaine baron has harassed Sierra Leone’s political class, including the president’s daughter.

The suspicions that he was in Sierra Leone arose after the country’s first lady, Fatima Bio, published photos and a video on social networks that showed a Man looks a lot like Leijdekkers In a religious service, also attended by President Bio.

The exiled opposition figure of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Mansaray, accused Bio and his government of “offering refuge” to drug trafficker.

According to Mansaray, Leijdekkers has combined with the president’s daughter, Agnes Bio, whom he is accompanying the drug trafficker in the images.

It is also believed that Leijdekkers is involved in the disappearance and death of Naima Jillal, a woman who disappeared in 2019 after she got into a car in Amsterdam, according to Europol. The supposedly intercepted messages showed that Leijdekkers “played an important role in Jillal’s disappearance,” the agency said.

• Drug traffic
• Cocaine
• Netherlands