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Rotterdam port officials find cocaine worth €100m hidden in boxes Customs officials in Rotterdam have discovered 2,900 kilos of cocaine hidden in a shipping container at the city’s port. The drugs were disguised in boxes packed in a shipment of household goods. The container was shipped to the Neth...

Two Dutchman arrested smuggling drugs to England by helicopter Two men from Eindhoven have been arrested after attempting to smuggle drugs into England by helicopter, Dutch police said at the weekend. The men were picked up by British police after bags stuffed with 40 kilos of cocaine and 60 kilos ...

A new EU report on drugs says the Netherlands remains a main hub for drug production and trafficking across Europe. The in-depth analysis, published last week, says EU citizens spend more than €24bn a year on drugs, 38% of it on cannabis. The Netherlands and Spain are major hubs for cannabis and coc...

Prosecution service launches anti-corruption campaign at Rotterdam docks The public prosection service has launched a crackdown on corruption at Rotterdam’s port amid concerns about the scale of organised crime at the docks. Prosecutors say they are aware criminals are approaching dock workers, inc...

Efforts to stem the surge in drugs-related crime in the south of the country led to 313 arrests and the winding up of 45 criminal organisations, police said on Friday. Since October 2014, when local politicians sounded the alarm, efforts to combat drugs crime in Limburg, Zeeland and Brabant have bee...

Three Dutchmen face lengthy jail terms in Britain for smuggling up to €2.2bn worth of cocaine and heroin into the country using second-hand ambulances, British media reported on Saturday. During the trial in Birmingham, the court was told how the group were equipped with bogus paramedics’ uniforms a...

Spanish police have seized 11 tonnes of hashish which was en route for the Netherlands and arrested 35 people in connection with the haul, the Telegraaf reports on Wednesday. Police also seized €150,000 in cash, 14 vehicles and 109 mobile phones, the paper said. Most of the drugs were found in a war...

Rotterdam port police have found over 3,000 kilos of cocaine in a shipment of cassava, an edible root, from Costa Rica. The drug was divided into 3,003 packages with a total weight of 3,500 kilos and had a street value of €120m, the public prosecution department said in a statement. It is the second...

Colombian police say they have seized seven tons of cocaine in the harbour of Cartagena which was destined for the Dutch market. The haul is the third biggest made over the past 13 years. The drug, which was heading for Rotterdam, was hidden in pineapple pulp, according to media reports. There were ...

Customs officials in then Helder last week seized nearly 800 kilos of cocaine from a silver-coloured van stopped after police became suspicious about the way it was being driven. The van was spotted by military police officers taking corners slowly and breaking excessively, leading them to stop and ...

Faculina does have a point> I never hear of russian mafia in Canada only Italian mafia and some random asian drug busts.

I know Italy is very rich but the students with no job connection want to leave,

Everyone leaves Italy when they get the chance. Im not impressed the Dutch owners of Vitol make 300 billion a year lol.

The Netherlands currently has the worlds 7TH largest banking sector.

As for Shadow banking in the Netherlands The balance sheet total of shadow banking in the Netherlands is not 3 trillion (3,160 billion) euros as stated in some publications but just under 1,500 billion. Most shadow banking in the Netherlands is subject to indirect or remote supervision unlike Underg...

The public prosecution service seized almost €20m from people operating underground banks last year, one-third more than in 2013. Some 80 people were arrested in connection with underground banking and 41 agreed to voluntarily turn over cash. The department says the €20m in seizures is only the tip ...

Mafia have to show discipline and show no fear. I wouldn't say its genes but more personality traits. Most of these guys end up in jail or dead and the few who make the most money actually are constantly being harassed by government or members of their group. Its not a great lifestyle but the ones t...

Police and customs officials seized some 9,000 kilos of hard drugs in Rotterdam port last year, most of which was cocaine, the public prosecution department said on Monday. In 2013, officials found 10,000 kilos of hard drugs. Cocaine accounted for 7,575 kilos of the 2014 haul. Smugglers have been in...

I've watched documentaries following real Russian gangsters and they know theres more money in legitimate business then selling drugs, prostitution or other crimes.

Russian residents assets outside of russia 1,241,395 trillion USD according to the bank of Russia. Possibly 40 percent belonging to mafia. This statistic doesn't include Russians living outside of Russia.

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad compares the cumulative US dollar value of all investments in foreign countries made directly by residents - primarily companies - of the home country, as of the end of the time period indicated. Direct investment excludes investment through purchase of sh...

The big focus now especially after the French newspaper attack is going to take the police off organized crime and put a lot more effort in these jihad terrorists.

Those guys would be good bouncers but a lot of criminals in Europe like the ones i read about in big cities in Holland are getting executed with assault rifles and car bombs.

Most X still is produced Netherlands and every place else you find an X lab is pretty much has Dutch involvement.

Never heard of this guy. But tons of cocaine are coming into Belgium and Dutch ports every year and going out the other side.

An extra 125 police officers are to be temporarily reassigned to tackling organised crime in the south of the country, the public prosecution department said on Thursday. The officers will focus on marijuana plantations, synthetic drug labs and motorbike gangs, the department said. Mayors in the reg...

Sounds like the Italian Mafia is strangling the Italian economy which sounds like it is going to end up like Greece.

I like your Bulgarian Mafia Whores.....Classy real classy.

Dutch police have dismantled 42 laboratories producing the party drug ecstasy this year, up from 29 in 2012 and almost double the 2011 total, Nos television reported on Friday. Police have also been alerted to almost twice as many dumps of left-over chemicals this year as in 2012, indicating product...

Dutch police have found almost three-quarters of a ton of heroin in a consignment of raisins from Iran, the public prosecution department has confirmed. The drug is valued at around €17m and was found by customs officials in Rotterdam port a week ago. The container with the drug was tracked to the v...

Rotterdam is one of the most important centres for the global cocaine trade and between 25% and 50% of western and central European consumption is smuggled through the port city, according to Dutch police. The police base their claim on 2013 drug seizures which show Rotterdam has overtaken Antwerp a...

Street prices for cocaine in NL are the cheepest in europe followed by portugal. Oversupply maybe? The mafia must jack up there prices cause its the most exspensive in Italy.