The government of Sierra Leone actively buys local journalists and threatens them to prevent the connection with the connection with the most wanted drug criminal Jos Leijdekkers from Breda, aka Bolle Jos, to be published. Several in -goed reporters from Sierra Leone explain this in interviews with De Telegraaf.
Government officials would be expanded to spend five thousand euros from local journalists. Reporters who refuse the silence would seriously threatened. The amount is unprecedentedly high for African standards, which, according to journalists, indicates how important it is for those in power that the Bolle Jos issue is covered up.
Terrified
De Telegraaf In recent weeks, several times abroad had contact with hiding reporters, who say they are terrified and fear for the lives of themselves and their families.
Leijdekkers has been staying under various false names in Sierra Leone since 2022. Earlier this year it came out that he has a relationship with the daughter of the President of the West African country and her fuss. Leijdekkers has a total of three young children with his ex: two sons and a daughter.
Convicted several times
The court in Antwerp imposed the fugitive Leijdekkers in prison at the end of February because of a – failed – cocaineug. According to the judge, the Bredanaar sent an armed command that ten tons had to steal cocaine that had been seized by the Antwerp customs.
Leijdekkers has been convicted in Belgium several times. In the Netherlands, he was previously sentenced to 24 years in prison for drug transports and giving a murder assignment. The Bredanaar is on the National Investigation List and the so -called EU Most Wanted List.