The Dutch drug criminal Mink K. (60), who was detained in Lebanon on suspicion of international drug trafficking, has been extradited to the Netherlands. It reports that Prosecution Monday. Mink’s son-in-law Najim Z. (41) was also transferred to the Netherlands on Saturday with a defense aircraft accompanied by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.
At the beginning of April of this year, K. was arrested at the request of the National Criminal Investigation Department in Lebanon, where he has been staying for years. He is suspected of being involved in a transport of 370 kilos of cocaine from South America to the Netherlands in 2020. This shipment was lost and, according to the Public Prosecution Service, it appeared from intercepted encrypted messages that K. was trying to find out from Lebanon where the drugs had gone. The cargo was seized in a German supermarket later that year.
750 kilos of cocaine
Son-in-law Z. is associated with drug shipments of more than 750 kilos of cocaine, which were intercepted in 2021 in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. According to insiders, Z. is part of the network of criminal Ridouan Taghi. The two transferred criminals will be presented on Tuesday to the examining magistrate in Rotterdam who will decide on their pre-trial detention, the Public Prosecution Service writes.
K. was considered one of the top criminals from the Amsterdam underworld in the 1990s. He previously served sentences for drug and arms trafficking in both the Netherlands and Lebanon.
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