Convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers attends a church service in Tihun, Sierra Leone, January 1, 2025, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.

Convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers attends a church service in Tihun, Sierra Leone, January 1, 2025, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.

If Sierra Leone does not act with integrity and urgency, then we are all in danger of becoming accomplices in a state-sponsored betrayal of justice. By continuing to allow Jos Leijdekkers to evade ...

What is Jos Leijdekkers doing in Sierra Leone? It is a story that stretches from the Netherlands to West Africa – tracing the routes of the international drug trade.

The extradition of Jos "Bolle Jos" Leijdekkers, the Netherlands’ most wanted criminal, to Dutch authorities is becoming increasingly unlikely. Reports indicate that Leijdekkers, who is wanted in both ...

Previous pictures apparently showing Leijdekkers, nicknamed “Chubby Jos”, in the company of officials as high as President Julius Maada Bio have sparked speculation that the cocaine lord has ...

One of Europe's most wanted fugitives, Leijdekkers, has found refuge and high-level protection in Sierra Leone, Reuters reported earlier this year.

FREETOWN – A Nation on the Brink The skies over Sierra Leone are darkening, not with storms, but with the shadows of an unfolding narco-crisis that threatens to destabilize not just the country, but ...

Drug trafficker Jos Leijdekkers had been recognised in a video of a church service and in some otherwise ordinary photographs. The 33-year-old Dutchman was attending the service on 1 January alongside ...

The Netherlands has sent an extradition request to Sierra Leone for convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, the Dutch justice minister said on Thursday, adding that he hoped to find the ...

Police in Sierra Leone have said they are hunting a Dutch drug trafficker who is one of Europe's most-wanted fugitives and believed to be hiding out in the west African country. Jos Leijdekkers ...

The Dutch authorities on the heels of the fugitive Jos Leijdekkers, wanted for drug smuggling and other crimes in Europe have sent an extradition request for his arrest and extradition to The ...