Illegal poker tournament stopped in Zaandam, 53 people fined
The Zaanstad police ended an illegal poker tournament in the night from Friday to Saturday. 53 people were present in a commercial building on the Penningweg.
Because of the ban on gathering that is in force because of the corona measures, all those present have been fined. That fine is 395 euros per person.
The police say it is striking that those present came from all over the Netherlands.
"A few managed to escape from the uproar, but the majority of the group was kept in, using appropriate force, after which peace returned."
The Zaan police have been assisted in this incident by colleagues from the Amsterdam police, the National Unit and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee.

During an action by a drug gang in the port of Antwerp, fourteen Dutch men were arrested. That reports the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. According to the newspaper, they are all in their twenties and have to go to trial on Tuesday morning.

It reports that the men are errand boys of a drug gang who have tried with a new method to safely retrieve a load of cocaine from a container in the port of Antwerp. They have cloned a refrigerated container full of squid, with almost 5 tons of cocaine in 1 kg packs in between. They drove to the customs control with that identical container. However, it failed to mislead customs and police, the newspaper said.

According to the newspaper, 12 suspects were arrested on the spot. Two fellow suspects were also stuck. Kalashnikovs and other weapons were found in a warehouse as well as in a car trunk.

Police chief: 'drug trafficking just keeps going'
April 28, 2020

The corona crisis does not affect the activity of drug smugglers, says Fred Westerbeke, the recently appointed chief of the Rotterdam police in Algemeen Dagblad. In the port of Rotterdam, the police even notice more drug smuggling activity than usual. Over forty suspected henchmen have been arrested in the last six weeks, people who break open certain containers in port areas to transport unseen drug packages.

Fred Westerbeke sees this as an indication that international drug trafficking is simply continuing.

A batch of cocaine was also intercepted to England among medical supplies.

Furthermore, the police receive far more reports of drug deals or suspicious circumstances than usual, because they are more noticeable because of the rest on the street. The police see the movement of street trade from locations where it is normally busier to supermarket parking lots and hardware stores, places where quite a few people still gather.

Known criminal Omar Essalih from De Pijp was shot dead in the night from Saturday to Sunday in Amsterdam-East. Essalih (29) was called 'Pennies' because he would do just about anything for money.

Hi Hollander

Do you have any information on Gwennette martha?

I’ve always been interested in him but never really find anything about him. Who was behind his killing? And who was he linked to

Thanks

Martha, born in Curaçao, grew up in Amsterdam South . Martha had talent for football and made it to Ajax 's youth academy, and kickboxing. At the age of eighteen, he witnessed his brother Giovanni being shot dead after a brawl. Giovanni's killer was shot and killed in a coffee shop on October 14, 2003, under unexplained circumstances, but Martha was the main suspect.

Martha had already explored the wrong way with street robberies before he was eighteen, but continued a criminal career in which robberies and cocaine trafficking played a major role. In the 90s the group around Martha was due to the aftermath of the IRT corruption affair somewhat left alone and Martha's group became the main drug suppliers in Amsterdam. Martha was convicted of laundering money in 2007. Less than a month later, Martha escaped from prison.

Meanwhile, his gang was not doing well either. There were quite a few deaths among his accomplices, and Martha's group got involved in a bloody feud with a competing crime group. Martha's right hand died in 2012. His murder on October 18, 2012 is related to a missing batch of two hundred kilos of cocaine. The murder sparked yet another series of liquidations, starting with a heavy shooting on December 29, 2012 in the Staatsliedenbuurt. In addition, two young Moroccans were killed in a Landrover and the police were also shot.

Martha died on May 22, 2014 as a result of an attack. More than eighty bullet holes were found in his body. Many of his group later started to work with Rico the Chilean and Ridouan Taghi.

Ultimately, the gangland war can be traced back to miscommunication and jealousy between two close friends and associates who grew up together: Martha and 'Hoes'.

Thanks a lot, Holland is such an interesting place for organised crime, I really enjoy your updates

Thanks, the Penoze goes back to the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, although the term "organized crime" was not used. There were organized gangs, which often formed a large network. The best example of this is the Great Dutch Gang. It was active in the seventies of the eighteenth century and consisted of a network of the Brabantse, the Meerssener, the Hollandse and the Noord-Brabantse Bende. ' In the first half of the eighteenth century, there were mainly many gangs in Brabant, but even after 1750 the gangs were rampant. Gangs like the Muscovites, the Blackmakers, and several others, terrorized villages and towns.

Poverty and social exclusion were an important reason for joining a gang in the eighteenth century. For example, the skinners, also known as disposers or cold slaughterers, were strongly represented. These were craftsmen who had the task of killing sick animals, skinning dead cattle and horses, and clearing away cadavers. They also acted as executioners' assistants and were tasked with transporting, hanging, or burying corpses of convicts under the gallows. The skinning profession was unclean and passed on from father to son. A skinner was not allowed to marry someone from another profession. He lived (literally) on the edge of the community.

A man was shot dead in Rotterdam, two guys in black clothing in an industrial area a burned-out car was found.

Police in Gelderland found a major crystal meth lab they seized drugs worth around €10 million. Inside three cooks were arrested from the USA, Mexico and Colombia.

Rotterdam criminal reports liquidation attempt at Schiphol. On Wednesday evening, around 19.45 a motorist called the emergency number and reported that he was under fire. There has been a very high-speed chase around Schiphol, through several villages in the Haarlemmermeer.
A source surrounding the investigation said that the man who allegedly had been chased was the Rotterdam criminal Marco E. (27). He is said to have left for Rotterdam from Amsterdam and noticed on the A4 highway that he was being followed. After he ran off full throttle and left the highway, a chase ended near Badhoevedorp. At Oude Meer, according to E., shots were taken with automatic rifles.
The chasing car was a BMW that at one point missed a corner that allowed E. to escape and report to the police.
In Amsterdam, E. would have been suspicious of people hanging around him on the street. There would also have been a delivery van involved.
Marco E. is the son of the notorious Schiedam crime boss Henk E., who has been involved in drug trafficking for many years. Marco and his father appear in several large investigative files of the criminal investigation department, including the Doussie file for cocaine imports, Henk E. was sentenced by the court to 14 years in that case. Marco E. was imprisoned for six years.

Nabil B., the crown witness in the Marengo trial against Ridouan Taghi, among 18 others, refuses to answer questions from lawyers and the Public Prosecution Service, according to the NRC . He will explain the reason for this at the pro forma session next Monday. B. made his point of view known during a hearing on Friday with the examining magistrate.

Nabil B. helped prepare several murders himself, but decided to go to justice in the spring of 2017. His statements, in addition to deciphered PGP chats, are crucial evidence in the process of at least five liquidations.

The examining magistrate who leads the interrogations of the crown witness in the Marengo case has already encountered problems several times about issues that B. does not want to explain, but that the examining magistrate must do. At the moment, B. has no lawyer.

According to the NRC, lawyers for the suspects asked Friday to have Nabil B. held hostage in order to force him to answer. The examining magistrate rejected that request.

The National Police is very concerned about the rise of meth. Dutch ecstasy barons are working now closely with Mexican cartels in the production of meth for the European market. The mexicans choose Netherlands because of the mild sentences, infrastructure, chemicals and good production facilities.

Drug war triggers series of shootings and attack in Rotterdam
A batch of 4,200 kilos of cocaine, which was intercepted by the Belgian police in the port of Antwerp more than three weeks ago, is the cause of the firearms violence in Rotterdam in recent days. That says several sources within and outside the criminal environment. The police are not yet making any statements about the possible background of the shelling of five homes and retail properties.

After the seizure of the large shipment of coke , which had been disposed of in a container of fish from South America, fourteen suspects were arrested in Belgium, including several young men of Surinamese and Antillean origin. The cargo of drugs is said to have been imported by an Amsterdam gang. Investors have been hit hard by the 'disappeared' drugs, tensions between criminals in the capital would increase further.

This article, says about the same, provides a video of one of these labs in Mexico.

https://www.gangsterismout.com/2020/05/cartels-exporting-meth-expertise-d-meth.html?m=1

I didn't expect crystal meth would be come big in Europe, but dutch police have already busted 26 major labs in Holland.

Wild! I’m pretty sure Culiacan was one of the first places it was getting produced in Mexico.

They can produce Cocaine, Heroin and Meth, which is a huge advantage over the Eastern Hemisphere, because I don’t believe they can cultivate Cocaine do to climate.

There is also a high demand for Dutch ecstasy and speed in Latin American party scenes, so instead of cash they pay with that. Roberto Pannunzi was known to do the same, trading 1 kilogram of heroin for 25 kilograms of cocaine.

Willem Holleeder wants more research into old underworld conflicts
The first introductory session at which Willem Holleeder appeared again today set the tone for the appeal against his life sentence for murder assignments. He wants much more research into ancient underworld conflicts. It is not necessary for the judicial authorities to do this.

Paul Vugts 25-05-20, 18:43 Last update: 19:16
Some things do not change. Willem Holleeder (61), in his favorite black outfit, took a seat in the suspect's bank and asked plenty of further investigation during the prosecution leading up to his appeal to show that witnesses lied about his murder assignments - his sisters and the murdered rogue real estate magnate Willem Endstra up front.

Not he, but others have ordered five liquidations and an assassination attempt from 2002 to 2006, killing six. That may very well have been criminal rival John Mieremet, or underworld leader Stanley Hillis or another criminal heavyweight.

Last chance
Holleeder and his lawyers Sander Janssen and Desiree de Jonge do not understand how the court was able to put aside all their elaborately described alternative scenarios. They go full for their last chance.

They want the court to hear no fewer than 43 witnesses at the hearings. Dozens of criminals, especially, but also (ex-) prosecutors, investigators and - a strange duck - the dentist of the Extra Secure Facility in Vught where Holleeder is locked up. The latter could confirm that Holleeder indeed needed a new crown, and that his story about a new crown was not a disguised threat, as sister Astrid understood.

Sisters Astrid and Sonja and ex Sandra den Hartog must of course also saw through the court, says Holleeder. Personally, so that the court can also register their way of speaking and body language.

Furthermore, the defense wants to see even more old files brought in, about the many conflicts that have dominated the Amsterdam underworld since the 1990s. The murdered criminals on Holster's charge may very well have been murdered on behalf of others, he and his lawyers will repeat over and over.

The court was already overwhelmed with documents and could dream the mantra about the other enemies, but to the dismay of Holleeder believed mainly his sisters and ex, plus the two crown witnesses and a few others.

The court should know that the court has "established a reality that has not existed," said counsel Janssen.

Behind the murders in Brabant of Toon Sweegers (51) and Frank Kerssens (53), a number of attempted murders, and various shooting incidents in the Eindhoven region, there is a conflict about drug trafficking between different groups. The investigation has since promised more than a ton of rewards, but things have not been resolved. That is why the police are now publishing more information and images.

The police previously said that there is a connection between at least ten incidents, all committed between March 2018 and December 2019.

The police also have images of the attack, on July 24, 2018, on two residents of the Insulindelaan in Eindhoven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7l72WL4pSg&feature=emb_logo

The clearest images to date of one of the perpetrators were made during a failed murder attempt in Best. On May 7, 2018, a woman was shot at close range at her home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=L0vuuGkhAWo&feature=emb_logo

The police raided a trailer camp in Maarheeze in Noord-Brabant on Friday morning at 7 a.m. All trailers and the entire site on the Vinnen are searched. The police started the searches after a tip that several residents would have firearms in their possession.

One hundred officers and employees of the Public Prosecution Service have been deployed in the large-scale operation. In addition, a platoon of the ME is ready and there are detection dogs.

In 2012, five people were arrested in a raid on the camp in Maarheeze and the police found drugs, cannabis plants and firearms.

In Rotterdam-IJsselmonde, a 30-year-old man was shot to death at his home on Friday morning. The police have arrested two suspects. It concerns a 20-year-old man from Dordrecht and a 21-year-old man from Capelle aan den IJssel. According to a police spokesman, "it looks like a liquidation."
Images show that the victim ( nicknamed “Johnnie”) is in a front yard. According to local residents, the victim lived there with his Antillean mother and sister.
Last autumn, Rotterdam-IJsselmonde was the setting for a conflict between rival youth gangs. Last week, there was another report of a shooting a few blocks away.

Famous fugitive has died, seems to have built his empire from the Netherlands.

https://aboutthemafia.com/roland-mr-big-tan-on-the-run-for-50-years-dead-at-72

The Chinese community in the Netherlands is regarded as a hotbed of Chinese organized crime in Europe, if not in the West.

Cool, this is another thing that I’ve heard on here.

Is that part of the reason that the Dutch have the Primo Ecstasy?

Seems like the Chinese are able to get the needed chemicals to produce it.

Yep, in recent decades they switched from heroin to the production of synthetic drugs. Although they are still involved in heroin and to a lesser extent cocaine (one group operated in the Dutch Antilles).
Nearly three quarters of the first generation of Chinese who settled in the Netherlands in 1990 or earlier were born in Hong Kong or the neighboring province of Guandong. The rest come from the coastal province of Zhejiang, south of Shanghai. Chinese from other parts of China were unable to emigrate easily before 1990.

A Belgian businessman was liquidated in Athens on Friday. According to the Antwerp Gazet , the victim is Kristof Waegeman (47). The newspaper writes that he has played a central role in a number of large Antwerp drug investigations. It also included links with the Dutch cocaine trade.and gangster “Billy” Martin Meech, who was recently murdered in Mexico. Waegeman should still serve a 12-year sentence for cocaine trafficking. According to Greek media, the Belgian was met by two hitmen on Friday evening around 9 p.m. and wound up on the street.

Waegeman was the right-hand man of Patrick de G. until 2014. Waegeman got 12 years and de G. got 15 years.
De G. was a major "facilitator" in cocaine transports; a lot of Antwerp-based drug gangs contacted De G. because of his large logistics network.

They are switching to meth because they can make at least ten times more money as with ecstasy. Fortunately it is still a niche market in Europe.

Last week, the national police unit arrested seven suspects from Brabant who allegedly imported cocaine into the Netherlands, through European ports, and laundered large amounts. The police speak of the 'Sesame Street Cartel' because the suspects used names from that series for their mutual communication. The police do not say how much cocaine has been seized. A 52-year-old Dutchman who lives in Spain, was arrested on Saturday in Breda.

All this time the Moroccans were shooting each other up, there were plenty of groups in Brabant and Limburg making tons of money in silence.