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Douwe den Held

Posted inNews Ecuador

The Pioneering Albanian Trafficker Who Took Ecuador’s Drug Trade By Storm

by Markus Espinoza and Douwe den Held 4 Jul 20245 Jul 2024
Containers on ships
Posted inNews Cocaine

Drug Traffickers Producing More Cocaine in Europe: EU Report

by Douwe den Held 17 Jun 202417 Jun 2024
Posted inNews Elites and Crime

The Surinamese Cocaine Trafficker Endlessly Evading Justice 

by Douwe den Held 13 Mar 202419 Jun 2024
Masked police stand guard outside the extra-secure courtroom where the Marengo Trial delivered its verdict
Posted inNews Cocaine Europe

Pioneering Dutch Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced to Life in Prison

by Douwe den Held 6 Mar 20246 Mar 2024
Former Suriname President Desi Bouterse.
Posted inNews Elites and Crime

Suriname Court Upholds Ex-President’s Historic Murder Conviction

by Douwe den Held 22 Dec 202322 Dec 2023
Posted inNews Elites and Crime

Suriname VP, Ex-President Linked to Drug Trafficking in Colombia AG Emails 

by Douwe den Held 6 Nov 202310 Nov 2023
Contraband is rife across the Suriname and French Guiana border.
Posted inNews Suriname

Europe’s Weakest Border? Smuggling Between Suriname and French Guiana  

by Douwe den Held 16 May 202326 Mar 2024
Drug traffickers like Dudus Coke or Cesar Peralta made the Caribbean a cocaine hub.
Posted inNews Caribbean

A History of the Caribbean’s Most Powerful Drug Kingpins

by Douwe den Held and Gavin Voss 12 May 202313 Oct 2023
The port city of Antwerp in Belgium came top for cocaine consumption in the wastewater report
Posted inNews Cocaine Europe

South America’s Cocaine Supply Boom Shows Up in European Wastewater Analysis

by Douwe den Held 3 Apr 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inNews Cocaine

InSight Crime’s 2022 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up

by Sean Doherty and Douwe den Held 8 Mar 202327 May 2024
Luxury cars in Dubai connected to Balkan drug trafficker, Edin Gačanin.
Posted inNews Cocaine Europe

Was a Super Cartel Really Controlling Europe’s Drug Trade?

by Douwe den Held 29 Nov 20221 Mar 2024
Posted inInvestigations Ndrangheta Latin America

Cocaine Brokers: The Flexible Backbone of the ’Ndrangheta Trafficking Empire

by Douwe den Held 23 Nov 20222 Jul 2024

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