The Sierra Leone police are prepared to cooperate with the Dutch police, Interpol and other international investigative agencies in the investigation of ‘Bolle Jos’, the fugitive Dutch drug smuggler Jos Leijdekkers. The police reported this in a statement on Sunday.
Last Friday, Follow the Money and A.D that the fugitive Leijdekkers would be in Sierra Leone. This was confirmed later that day by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM), which stated that it had been aware of the whereabouts of the Dutchman for six months. Leijdekkers is the Netherlands’ most wanted criminal, there is a reward of 200,000 euros for the golden tip that leads to his arrest. He is on the National Investigation List and the EU Most Wanted List.
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Leijdekkers was sentenced to 24 years in prison last June for six drug transports in which a total of almost 7,000 kilograms of cocaine was transported. He is also said to have ordered a murder. Leijdekkers also has to serve another ten years in prison in Belgium for drug trafficking and assault.
There are rumors that Leijdekkers enjoys high-level protection in the West African country, which is known as a transit country for large quantities of cocaine from Latin America to Europe. Last Friday, images emerged showing ‘Bolle Jos’ attending a church service in Sierra Leone on January 1 this year. In those videos, verified by international news agencies, he sits two rows behind the country’s president, Julius Maada Bio, and next to a woman believed to be the president’s daughter and Leijdekkers’ girlfriend or wife.