“Dutch authorities arrest ‘important player’ in international cocaine trade: Dennis G.”

G. was arrested at the request of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service. The Public Prosecution Service and the criminal investigation department see him as ‘an important player in the international cocaine trade’. In the Netherlands and the Dominican Republic, he would use criminal contacts, including corrupt port employees, to ship drugs. With Dennis G., almost all top criminals around Ridouan T. have been arrested. Most are detained in the Netherlands, a number of others in Serbia and Brazil.

The Public Prosecution Service has submitted an extradition request for G to the Dominican authorities. Decrypted Ennetcom messages show, according to the Public Prosecution Service, that G. is ‘probably involved in cocaine shipments of 985 and 522 kilos, which were seized in Colombia in 2015’. He would also be the owner of the cocaine packages with his nickname ‘Rasta’ printed on them, and would be involved in a transport of 47 kilos of cocaine that was intercepted in Britain in 2015.

According to the Public Prosecution Service, decrypted messages from another messaging service, SkyECC, indicate that G. was involved in the smuggling of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to the Netherlands in 2019 and 2020. In 2015 he was already arrested in the Dominican Republic. and he was briefly held in custody because of the discovery of cocaine in his home.

According to the Public Prosecution Service, G. lived in the Dominican Republic for years, and is said to have lived there in a luxurious villa in the capital Santo Domingo. The Dominican authorities are investigating a man and woman in whose company G. was at the time of his arrest. It is not yet known when he will be extradited to the Netherlands.

The Dominican Drug Control Directorate reports that two others have been arrested in addition to G.: Urvin W. and Terence de V. Both are members of No Limit Soldier, a criminal organization that is mainly active in the Caribbean but also has ties with the Netherlands. Dutch authorities suspect them of murder, arms trafficking, drug trafficking and money laundering, among other things.