Wednesday, June 04, 2025

EUROPOL Offers Record $225,000 Reward for Dutch Fugitive

EUROPOL is offering a 200,000 euro reward for information that could lead to the arrest of Joseph Johannes Leudekkers (34). The fugitive is a key player in international cocaine trafficking and large-scale money laundering of Euros and gold. In less than six months, the dangerous kingpin spent 47 million euros on 975 kg of gold and bought a hotel in Turkiye as well as apartments in Dubai. Leijdekkers is also involved in serious cases of excessive violence, torture, and murder. Jos Leijdekkers was sentenced to 24 years in prison on 25 Jun 2024, for six drug transports totaling almost 7,000 kilos of cocaine, an armed robbery in Finland, and ordering an execution.

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Above, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers attends a church service in Tihun, Sierra Leone, 1 Jan 2025 (screen grab from social media video.) West Africa has become a major drug transit hub, so no mystery that Jos Leijdekkers would be spotted in Sierra Leone. Source: UNODC.

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