OM: eight years in prison sentence for ‘spin in smokkelweb’ – Parool.nl

OM: eight years in prison sentence for 'spin in smokkelweb' – Parool.nl

19-08-14 13:57 h – Source: Reuters

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By the 38-year-old Clyde C. from Purmerend is a prison sentence of eight years demanded for his role in a professional ‘smokkelweb’ of cocaine. That the prosecutor said today in court at Schiphol.

He recruited according to the Public Prosecutor (OM), couriers and swallowers, arranged tickets and continued professional smuggling lines for cocaine from South America to the Netherlands bring.

“The spider in the web, the organizer from beginning to end,” said the prosecutor about C. While the sentencing of couriers and smugglers, according to him the order of the day ‘, named he called the “exception” that an investigation into a leading organizer.

“Soldiers’
According to the OM ran the Purmerland Islander from 2010 to 2013 a large number of smuggling lines. Couriers and smugglers he put himself in the line on the plane, after which they traveled to South America via another European country. Back they often came into Europe via Lisbon, from where they flew to include Belgium and Luxembourg.

The justice no effort was spared to avoid. Strict checks at Schiphol as much as possible The prosecutor spoke of ‘the method C’. Which was characterized further by maintaining intensive, mandatory contacts with his ‘soldiers’ as they were in Brazil, Argentina and Suriname. “He always had the direction,” says the OM.

In the case are different couriers and smugglers sentenced to often lengthy prison sentences, both in the Netherlands and abroad. One of the “soldiers” who, after a tip from the Dutch authorities at the airport of Zurich, was arrested with five kilos of cocaine with him, got 42 months in prison.

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C. came into the picture in early 2012 when he was recognized at the airport and was associated with drug traffickers. related Through wiretaps, observations and statements of arrested smugglers and couriers the prosecution brought further chart how he operated.

Self says C. five times previously convicted of drug offenses, he as snorder ‘just people brought forth. His lawyer Bob Tijkotte wants acquittal. According to him rattles the research on all sides

(By: Editorial).