Dutch fugitive and Europe’s most needed drug baron, Jos Leijdekkers also called ‘Bolle Jos’ has been seen in a brand new video that has surfaced just lately and obtained by Follow the Money and AD, partying with Sierra Leone officers together with the nation’s Executive Director of Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Andrew Jaiah Kai Kai, who was additionally a former Chief Immigration Officer of the nation.
In the video which was printed on-line yesterday March 7, 2025, Leijdekkers is seen wearing a Versace shirt, and handing a present to Alusine Kanneh, the rapid previous head of the Sierra Leone Immigration Service, who was celebrating his birthday. The trio are seen laughing heartily. Kanneh was nonetheless, fired yesterday and changed by Moses Tiffa Baio as Chief Immigration Officer. No causes have been assigned for Kanneh’s removing.
The infamous Leijdekkers, who is needed for drug trafficking and homicide has been sentenced a number of instances in absentia in two European international locations.
In February this 12 months he was jailed for 13 years in absentia in Belgium for masterminding an try and retrieve 10 tonnes of seized cocaine being held in a customs warehouse in Kalmthout, a municipality within the Belgian province of Antwerp.
The try was foiled by Belgian regulation enforcement, who additionally arrested seven people who’re dealing with 10-years in jail. Eleven others obtained varied sentences from one to 9 years, and two have been acquitted.
The 33-year-old Leijdekkers, needed for drug smuggling in his residence nation, The Netherlands, was early within the 12 months seen within the firm of Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio and his daughter in movies shared on-line and examined by journalists. While some sources say he has been hiding in Sierra Leone for at the very least two years, Dutch officers say they imagine he has been dwelling in that nation for at the very least six months.
The newest video exhibiting Bolle Jos and the 2 officers. In the center in black go well with and bow tie is Alusine Kanneh and on the suitable in a stripped T-shirt is Andrew Kai Kai.
In June final 12 months, he was sentenced in absentia to 24 years in jail by a Rotterdam courtroom for the offence of smuggling seven tonnes of cocaine, an armed theft in Finland and ordering homicide. In September final 12 months, a Belgian courtroom additionally sentenced him to 10 years in jail for drug trafficking offences and assault. Dutch police additionally suspect his involvement within the disappearance and suspected torture and homicide of Naima Jilal, a girl who disappeared in Amsterdam in 2019.
In early January, Leijdekkers was seen in video footage shared on social media together with one by the spouse of President Maada Bio of Sierra Leone within the firm of the president and his household at a New Year’s Eve church service. In one other undated video, additionally shared broadly on social media and seen by Ghana Business News, the needed man is proven harvesting rice alongside the Sierra Leonean president on his farm in Tihun, a rural city in Sogbini Chiefdom, Bonthe District within the Southern Province of Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone authorities initially denied the presence of the fugitive within the nation. The Inspector General of Police in a press convention advised journalists that the person recognized within the video is moderately recognized to them as Umar Sheriff, nonetheless, they mounted searches in any respect the locations they’d hoped to seek out him, together with initiating a manhunt, however they haven’t been capable of finding the person.
The Dutch authorities subsequently issued an extradition request to the Sierra Leone authorities. There isn’t any extradition handled between the 2 international locations, nonetheless.
Leijdekkers can also be broadly reported to be in a romantic relationship with Agnes Bio, daughter of the Sierra Leone president.
While the Sierra Leone authorities have constantly failed to seek out the fugitive, this newest video additional confirms suspicions that the authorities might know the place Bolle Jos is hiding, however could be unwilling to arrest him.
However, a Dutch journalist, Sophie Van Leeuwen who was within the nation in the midst of February this 12 months to report on the story was arrested within the capital, Freetown, and police stated she was suspected of filming with out a allow. Sophie is an Africa correspondent for RTL Nieuws, and she or he had earlier attended the Sierra Leone police weekly press convention, and has stated she is accredited to report from the nation. The police later stated she had been launched to proceed together with her work after questioning on the Criminal Investigations Department. However, they seized two of her reminiscence playing cards and erased some information from her laptop computer citing safety causes.
By Emmanuel Okay Dogbevi