Property drug criminal Jos Leijdekkers from Breda, also known as Bolle Jos, has to repay more than 96 million euros in criminal assets. The court in Rotterdam ruled this on Monday afternoon. That amount is lower than the more than 221 million that was previously demanded by the judiciary. It is the biggest confiscation case in Dutch penalty history.
The judge ruled that there is sufficient evidence that Leijdekkers has earned the enormous amount with large -scale cocaine trade and money laundering. According to the court, his luxurious lifestyle, including real estate in Dubai, expensive watches and millions of investments, was in no proportion to a legal income. This allocated part of the claim of the Public Prosecution Service.
Leijdekkers has been on the run for years and has been signaled internationally. Despite several convictions, including a 24 -year -old prison sentence in the Netherlands and 13 years in Belgium, he managed to stay out of the hands of the judiciary to date. The drug lord would probably stop in West Africa. His name appeared in millions of chat messages from the squatted Sky ECC network, from which his central role in international drug trafficking would be apparent.
At the start of the Kaalpluk process in the Netherlands, Justice presented eight extra drug transports. They came on top of the six he was already convicted of. Loads of Coke that were seized between December 2019 and August 2020 in Rotterdam, Antwerp, France, the Dominican Republic, Brazil and Uruguay. So a total of 14 drug transports of 14,000 kilos of coke together.
After calculation, the court comes to a total amount of 127 million that Jos has earned with the cocaine trade. After that calculation, the value of the six batches of cocaine that were seized. After deduction of the seized transports, the court therefore comes to an amount of almost 97 million.
The ruling is a milestone in the approach to undermining crime and the court also shows the use of taking criminal capacity, even when the suspect himself can be found. Nevertheless, enforcement remains symbolic for the time being: as long as Leijdekkers remains a fugitive, collecting the amount is a tough legal and practical challenge. If he doesn’t do that, a hostage of 1080 days hangs over him.
In this video you see more about the case against Bolle Jos and who he is: