by Carl Fellstrom | Aug 11, 2015 | money laundering, organised crime
AT AROUND 4pm last Friday a well-heeled couple sauntered down the pretty canal-lined streets which run parallel to Amsterdam’s Dam Square. To most people they would have appeared to be nothing more than two of the thousands of middle-aged tourists enjoying a...
by Carl Fellstrom | Jul 12, 2015 | money laundering, murder, organised crime, SOCA
By Carl Fellstrom, Tom Worden and David Connett A top-secret surveillance operation monitored gunned-down timeshare fraudster John “Goldfinger” Palmer for at least eight years up until his death two weeks ago, it can be revealed. The British operation, which drew upon...
by Carl Fellstrom | Apr 28, 2015 | drugs, organised crime, SOCA
IN what appears to be the largest single seizure of cocaine in the UK, the authorities have charged nine Turkish men as part of the smuggling probe into more than three tonnes of the drug. The nine men, aged between 26 and 63, all appeared before Aberdeen...
by Carl Fellstrom | Dec 17, 2014 | drugs
DUTCH crime TV show Opsporing Verzocht has aired the moment when two innocent bystanders were shot by gun-toting gangsters in a quiet Amsterdam bar. The incident, which detectives believe is part of the ongoing war over a stolen batch of cocaine from Antwerp in March...
by Carl Fellstrom | Dec 9, 2014 | drugs, money laundering, murder, organised crime
STEFAN Eggermont was just pulling into a parking space in the dimly lit street near his Amsterdam home when the assassin came. Death came swiftly and without mercy or recognition. It was a “settlement of business” and the usual omerta code of silence would...
by Carl Fellstrom | Aug 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
DUTCH media were last night reporting the brutal death of yet another former associate of Robert Dawes. The victim, who has yet to be formally identified, is believed to be Samir Bouyakhrichan, 36, known by the nickname “Scarface” within the Dutch underworld. He was...
by Carl Fellstrom | Aug 3, 2014 | drugs, journalism, murder, organised crime, Robert dawes
DANIEL Sowerby, the man convicted of killing an innocent Dutch school teacher in 2002 has spoken for the first time about his boss Robert Dawes. In a series of interviews with Dutch journalist Martijn Haas for Panorama magazine, Sowerby now 56, acknowledges he will...
by Carl Fellstrom | May 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
A MAJOR figure in the Dutch underworld was gunned down last night in a surburb of Amsterdam. Gwenette Martha, 40, died in a hail of bullets after three gunmen dressed in balaclavas unleashed a volley of automatic fire as the Dutch crime lord was walking in the...
by Carl Fellstrom | May 4, 2014 | david hunt, organised crime
The wealthy co-owner of a Premier League football club made a £1m loan to a company controlled by David Hunt – three months after a High Court judge named Mr Hunt as the head of an organised crime network. A company owned by David Sullivan, the multi-millionaire boss...
by Carl Fellstrom | Nov 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
ETHSHAM “Shami” Ghafoor was a popular, outgoing man who made friends easily and was well respected within the cabbie fraternity. What is also clear is that the young Asian taxi driver was troubled by something that he kept from his family, a secret which perhaps holds...
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