Today at 11:55 • Updated today at 12:08
The police followed Bolle Jos’ sister for a long time. She was also bugged and hacked everywhere. Her lawyer told her this at the start of the trial. “If she wasn’t his sister, we wouldn’t have seen a circus around her.” The sister, together with her mother and father, is suspected of money laundering. The family is said to have benefited from Bolle Jos’s criminal profits. The mother does not have a lawyer and therefore the trial against her and the daughter has been postponed. Dad is on trial on Wednesday and heard a demand for seven months in prison.
Eavesdropping also took place at home, probably in Breda where she is registered. But also in her car, when walking the dog, a trip to Zoutelande and a birthday party. “Systematic surveillance, telephone taps, listening equipment in her car, cell tower data. Everything was pulled out. What did that yield? Zero. It was not about her, it was about her brother,” the sister’s lawyer stated.
Dishwasher
“One day the dishwasher stopped working and then a technician saw behind the dishwasher that there was listening equipment. Dangerous, the technician said, it could have exploded. And when she called the police, they said: that is ours. Could you take this to the police station?”
The lawyer’s criticism was also aimed at the media. “We are all here not because of these family members, but because of their son and her brother.” Prosecutors did not respond to the attorney’s complaint.
Drug lord
The sister, mother and father of Jos Leijdekkers, the most wanted drug baron in our country and on the National Investigation List for three years, appeared in the courtroom in Rotterdam on Wednesday morning.
Immediately at the start of the trial it became clear that the mother broke with her lawyer a week ago. The mother has been silent until now but has changed her mind. “Yes, that’s right. I want to explain. My lawyer advised me that it was better to say nothing.”
The mother’s different attitude led to an ‘insurmountable breach of trust’ between her and the lawyer. That is why the court decided to postpone its case until next fall. Because her daughter’s case is closely intertwined with her own, the daughter’s trial was also postponed.
Nightmare
Father’s lawyer said he just wanted to continue with the trial. “He also wants this nightmare to end.” His case continued.
The public prosecutor said that in the search for Jos Leijdekkers they came across the family that benefited from the criminal profits. And also dad (71).
The father is said to have received an expensive watch as a gift from his son Jos. But dad denies it. “I never got anything from my son, never.”
Chats
In crypto communications that they attribute to Bolle Jos, they came across messages about this, with the type number. One of those accounts beamed close to the father’s house. The watch ended up at Dad’s home in Rotterdam via an Antwerp jeweler.
An appraiser estimated the value at 110,000 euros. So expensive that it cannot be explained, because his company has a modest turnover. The officer therefore demanded a seven-month prison sentence against the father of ‘Bolle’ Jos Leijdekkers.
Brothel
Dad says he once traded the watch in Dubai. He also complained about the way the police wanted to track down his son through him. “They followed me for five years, in Dubai, in Spain, everywhere.”
Dad also thinks it is unfair that the media write that he comes from a crime family. He was never convicted or caught for anything like that. “We are so vilified. Because you have a brothel. I have had brothels all my life.”
“It’s all Jos. Caught another batch this week, possibly Bolle Jos. As if there are no others in Sierra Leone. They blame everything on him.”
His lawyer then spoke and complained about the media attention and the extensive attention from the police and the judiciary. “It appears that they are being used as bait to track down their son.” He asked for a suspended prison sentence at most.
The verdict is on Wednesday, May 20.
