How the Netherlands Became a Global Cocaine Hub
The surge in trafficking through the Port of Rotterdam has coincided with spectacular violence.
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The surge in trafficking through the Port of Rotterdam has coincided with spectacular violence.
April 26, 2021 Drugs gangs have the run of the logistics process at Rotterdam port, enabled by widespread criminal infiltration at shipping companies, the head of the port police has told the NRC. The Netherlands is the main European distribution centre for drugs and Rotterdam port is key because of widespread corruption at port-related companies, Jan Janse, who heads the port’s Hit and Run Cargo Team, told the paper. The lucrative trade in cocaine, brought to the country in containers from South America, has been responsible for a surge in organised crime at the port, he said. Janse and...