Jos Leijdekkerswho was sentenced to 49 years in prison has a €200,000 bounty on his head. He remains at large, allegedly mingling with officials in Sierra Leone
One of the biggest drug trials in Belgium’s history opened this week without one of Europe’s most wanted cocaine kingpin.
Jos Leijdekkers, who is at the helm of a merciless gangland trade in cocaine, remains a fugitive, with a bounty of €200,000 on his head.
Leijdekkers, 33, who has a personal fortune estimated at €1 billion, has been convicted three times in absentia, most recently by a court in Rotterdam in June, where he was sentenced to 24 years for cocaine trafficking on a vast scale.
He is thought to be using his time on the run to direct smuggling operations as the second-in-command to RidouanTaghi, Europe’s most feared mafia boss, who is serving a life sentence in a Dutch prison.
