The Public Prosecution Service wants Jos L., better known as ‘Bolle Jos’, to pay more than 221 million euros to the Dutch State. According to the Public Prosecution Service, this is only a fraction of the amount he earned from trading in cocaine.
The amount is made up of costs for intercepted cocaine transports, but also gifts for his family members and the purchase of apartments and even a hotel in Turkey.
In a criminal case in the Netherlands in which L. was sentenced to 24 years in prison, the Public Prosecution Service already concluded that he had an estimated annual turnover of 2 billion euros. The amount that was reclaimed in the Rotterdam court on Monday is a lot lower.
This is because these are the minimum costs that the Public Prosecution Service says it is certain that L. incurred. If the last legal amount (more than 14,000 euros) that the Bredanaar earned in the Netherlands in 2016 is deducted from this, you arrive at an amount of more than 221 million euros.
The bulk of that amount consists of the costs for a total of fourteen batches of cocaine of various sizes. In addition, there are investments in gold and real estate.
L. has bought almost 1,000 kilos of gold
The Public Prosecution Service says it has found evidence of this in intercepted messages sent with Sky ECC. This is a provider of encrypted communication, which was hacked by the police in 2021. Messages sent by L. make it clear that he bought almost 1,000 kilos of gold.
Here, too, the Public Prosecution Service emphasizes that this is the minimum in terms of investment in gold. The messages that came into the hands of the police after the hack of Sky ECC only cover a certain period.
L.’s family also benefited from his criminal profits, according to the Public Prosecution Service. Two watches worth a total of almost 300,000 euros were found at his mother’s house after a search. In addition, she would have received an apartment in Dubai and a Bentley. His father, mother and sister are on trial in a separate criminal case for money laundering.
Despite the appearance of several videos showing L. in Sierra Leone, he has still not been arrested. The Netherlands has requested his extradition. The confiscation case therefore took place in the absence of L. or a lawyer.