Organized crime in The Netherlands is flourishing in tandem with the cocaine trade. A key witness recently was shot dead, along with his lawyer, while lately also a journalist was murdered in downtown Amsterdam.
For years the Dutch authorities thought they had this so-called Mocro mafia under control. But at the latest with the murder of journalist Peter R. de Vries, it has become clear that organized crime is shaking The Netherlands to its very core.
We definitely have the characteristics of a narcs-state, confides Jan Struijs, chairman of the biggest Dutch police union. The drugs mafia earns billions and deploys increasingly brutal tactics.
Sure we’re not Mexico. We don’t have 14,400 murders. But if you look at the infrastructure, the big money earned by organized crime, the parallel economy. Yes, we have a professional narco-state.
It’s a battle for power and billions. It’s about killing, to avoid being killed, says the well-known Dutch lawyer Vito Shukrula.
Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the amount of cocaine being smuggled through the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg. The Caribbean island of Curacao serves as one of the main hubs for the international drugs trade.
The Dutch royal airline company KLM created its wealth through their Caribbean smuggling hubs of Aruba and the desert style island of Curacao. The tourist hot spot of Klein Curacao is one of the most prominent stations for the Colombian cocaine to pass through.
Mambo Beach serves as the headquarters for the Dutch money laundering machines, masking itself as another tourist hot spot, where bars and restaurants entertain the crowd.
With profits running into the billions, mafia gangs mainly operating from The Netherlands find it easy to bribe individuals at key points in the chain. For example, a crane driver at a port can earn 100,000 Euros for moving just one container to a particular position.
For years now, investigators have used all the means at their disposal to expose and cut the supply lines. Several raids found weapons and huge hauls of drugs; many suspects were taken into custody.
The biggest trial in the history of The Netherlands has been going on since March 2021. In the dock at the Marengo trial: several leading members of the Mocro Mafia accused of murder.
The cases highlight the extreme brutality of a criminal network that’s pushing the state to its limits. The reportage accompanies investigators going about their work at the port of Rotterdam. The story is one of corruption and violence.
The Public Prosecution Service in the Netherlands has seized 100 million euros when dismantling a web casino operating from Curaçao. This happened after house searches in Curaçao, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Malta, Austria and Switzerland.
Six suspects, five men (66, 56, 52, 51, 51) and a woman (45), are suspected of violating the Gambling Act, money laundering and participation in a criminal organization.
It is suspected that they have earned more than 250 million euros by illegally offering online games of chance on the Dutch market and have laundered this.
In total, more than 100 million euros were seized, including art, homes, bank accounts, jewelry, cars, boats and investments.
The suspects had chosen the Curaçao route that is favored by the gambling mafia for illegally offering online games of chance on the Dutch market: an apparently neat trust office sets up a company and registers itself as a director with the Chamber of Commerce.
A sub-license is then purchased – usually from a master licensee affiliated with the trust office. The true owners stay out of the picture of the investigative services, use their web casino to launder criminal profits from drugs, arms and people smuggling or to defraud players by paying only a small part of players’ stake as prize money.
The investigation led by the Public Prosecutor’s Office is continuing. Whether this also focuses on parties in Willemstad that facilitated the activities of the suspects has not been disclosed.
The gambling sector operating through Antelecom from Curaçao is estimated to be worth many billions every year. The Dutch court in Willemstad judged that former finance minister George Jamaloodin ordered the assassination of political leader Helmin Wiels six years ago.
This is the first political murder on the Caribbean island. The former finance minister who used a hit-man to liquidate the leader of a political party and very important local member of parliament.
That is what happened in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands six years ago, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
On May 5, 2013, businessman George Jamaloodin had 54-year-old Helmin Wiels, anti-corruption advocate and founder of the Pueblo Soberano independence party, shot to death on Curaçao’s beach. The OM demanded 30 years against Jamaloodin in June 2020.
Amsterdam, with a population of fewer than one million inhabitants, traditionally has been a tightly knit, largely affluent drugs trading community. The EU estimated in 2016 that around 25% to 50% of cocaine in Europe is imported through the Rotterdam port.
The country, a traditional hub for marijuana trade, has been overrun by violent organized criminal gangs dealing in hard drugs, with minors as young as 12 distributing narcotics and a spate of gruesome murders.
Many analysts consider the toppling of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who is still in office after elections in March, 2021 as the trigger for the Drugs Colonizing Spring.
Curacao has about 11Â different heavily armed police forces that work to keep the international drugs trade in perspective. Apart from the regular local police force, the Dutch conspirators seated in The Hague established the RST and so-called Atrako Team.
To control the borders, the local customs officers are backed by the Dutch Army and Marines DEA, VKC apart from other naval forces such as the Coast Guard and Royal Navy warships. The entire defense is also backed by the US forward operations entity FOL.
This way the corrupted politicians and its fake democratic government can rule over the victimized populations living in Curacao. The successful entities on the island along the coast of Venezuela are the ones connected into those networks.
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P. de Vries also is known for the Holloway case in Aruba, where he suggested a false narrative to cover the real suspects.
Holloway narrative was used to block his father from becoming the top judge in Aruba.
Under the cover of tourism, the Dutch completely occupied Curacao with their hostile invasive campaign, which drains the local tax payers, without getting any return on investment. As usual, thieves and settlers do not need to pay taxes?
The CAP gateway authorities can even keep and hold on to the very expensive airport taxes to improve their profits bragging about their positive investment. But the entire airport renovation was paid with local taxpayers money. Even foreign owned hotels and other invasive developments are paid with local taxpayers money.
No much more jobs for the local people, they are allowed to drive the new settlers around, pick up their garbage (empty bottles of wine) and perform their security while they are at it, stealing and plundering society, participating in land- and money grab, calling the locals thieves and corrupt??
Cocaine is big business, all masked under the definition of development crab?
MAMBO BEACH AND PARERA ARE THEIR OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS?