Africa: The Bolle Jos Connection – How Sierra Leone’s Alleged Protection of Europe’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin Threatens Liberia and West Africa

The recent wave of unprecedented cocaine seizures across West Africa is no longer a series of isolated criminal incidents. Instead, the arrests, investigations, and intelligence emerging from multiple jurisdictions increasingly point to a sophisticated transnational narcotics network stretching from Latin America through West Africa into Europe.

At the center of this network is Dutch fugitive Jos Leijdekkers, widely known as “Bolle Jos,” one of Europe’s most wanted drug traffickers. While European…