‘Bolle Jos’ Leijdekkers, one of the most wanted criminals in the Netherlands, is staying in the African Sierra Leone. Report that Follow the Money and Algemeen Dagblad. The Public Prosecution Service has confirmed that Leijdekkers is in the West African country and that he probably has close ties with President Julius Maada Bio from Sierra Leone.
That’s how Leijdekkers appears on a movie That the president’s wife places on Facebook at the beginning of January of a New Year’s Mass in a church where the president speaks. He is in front next to the daughter of Maada Bio with whom he would have a relationship. Sources explain to Follow the Money and Ad. Other sources say that Leijdekkers bribed high officials in the country with expensive cars and watches.
In a response to the investigation, the OM says to Follow the Money and Ad: “We have done everything to find him. And also do everything to get him to the Netherlands ”. Whether an extradition request has been submitted to the authorities of Sierra Leone does not want to say the OM. The Netherlands has no embassy and has no extradition treaty with the country.
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has been playing an important role in international drug trafficking for some time. Criminal organizations from South America smuggle through this country, among other things, cocaine towards Europe. Bolle Jos would also use the route. In 2023 and 2024, various parties that came from Sierra Leone and linked to the Brabant drug boss were seized by authorities. It concerned tens of thousands of kilos of cocaine with a street value of around 1.5 billion euros.
For a long time there was a suspicion that Leijdekkers was in Turkey. His brother and brother -in -law were arrested earlier. In the Netherlands, the judiciary has A price of 200,000 euros put on his head. He has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in global drug trafficking and also has to serve a prison sentence in Belgium.