SIERRA LEONE: After a series of recent major drug seizures in Liberia Sierra Leone and the French port of Dunkirk with a street value of over US$300 million – all linked to the network of Dutch fugitive trafficker Jos Leijdekkers ‘Bolle Jos' and his partner Agnes Bio daughter of President Julius Maada Bio – he may have outlived his usefulness...
At the centre of this cocaine row are attempts by the Dutch government to persuade Bio's officials to hand over convicted drug trafficker Jos Leijdekkers...
Vol 66 No 10 |
- SIERRA LEONE
The allegations come as members of the Bio administration and his family have been accused of being part of the network of Jos Leijdekkers a convicted Dutch cocaine smuggler sentenced to 24 years in prison last year in absentia and resident in Sierra Leone for at least two years (AC Vol 66 No 3 President Bio keeps cocaine lord in the family)...
Alusine Kanneh Sierra Leone's Chief Immigration Officer has been dismissed as questions about his relationship with notorious cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers have mounted and evidence of past dishonesty has accumulated although other officials including the President's daughter are untouched...
Top officials in Freetown have expressed annoyance at the time it took the Dutch government to apply for the extradition of convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers despite telling the media they had known where he was for months following the revelations about the presence in Sierra Leone (AC Vol 66 No 3 President Bio keeps cocaine lord in the family)...
