During the raid on a company and house in Akersloot last autumn, the police found 3/4 kilos of coke and ecstasy pills. The arrested resident (53) is also suspected of possessing an alarm pistol and money laundering with watches. The building, which, according to his lawyer, was used by all kinds of people, has been closed by the municipality for a year.
This is evident from an interim session in the court of Alkmaar today. There the tall PB from Akersloot sat for the first time against three judges and the public prosecutor. It is more than three months after the police raided several buildings on the Boekel.
So the outdoor lighting shop is on the site, but also PB’s home. Dozens of agents spend hours on the investigation that day and turn everything upside down.
They now find a ‘small amount’ of ecstasy pills, an alarm pistol, cash money, watches worth about 7,000 and 11,000 euros, but the largest find is 743 grams of coke. With the found vacuum machine, small plastic bags and a scale, it would indicate drug trafficking.
“The coke was hidden in a pellet stove and does not belong to my client,” the lawyer of the suspect Marnix van der Werf told the court today. The machine would be used at home to pack meat and fish, the small plastic bags for nuts for lamps and the scale for postal packages.
Moreover, PB’s accounts were in order, according to Van der Werf. “He didn’t need more income at all. And he could just afford those watches.” The cash money ‘comes from his son’s piggy bank’ and an inheritance.
The building would be used by all kinds of people for the storage of all kinds of things. “I was shown around by his son. People walked in and out and everyone left their tools, there were even fireworks in the basement. One acquaintance also had a large batch of sleeping pills and stored his bicycle in the garage.”
The cocaine would therefore not belong to the suspect PB, but from someone who has now reported to the police. He has yet to be heard.
Closed for a year
After the raid and the drugs found, the mayor of Castricum has decided to close the business premises from 1 December for twelve months. A spokesperson for the municipality informed NH Nieuws of this. The suspect is happy with that.
“In this way people are kept outside, including at his home. He has already indicated several times that he does not want others to use the building,” said his lawyer.
The 53-year-old Akersloter hopes to be able to return home pending the investigation. The court still has a question about this: if his company is closed, where does he get the income from?
“He will have to think of something else about that,” his lawyer responds. He also wants to hear a few employees about ‘the state of affairs in the home, industrial hall and canteen’. The probation service has already drawn up a report on the 53-year-old PB and recommends outpatient treatment for addiction if his pre-trial detention is suspended. The court will decide tomorrow.
The police previously reported that this case runs parallel to an investigation in the Utrecht region. The public prosecutor announced today at the hearing that this has nothing to do with the case against PB at the moment