Ed Butler
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170 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5d ago
Ed Butler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hello and welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
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I'm Ed Butler and today we're on the trail of a wanted drugs kingpin from the Netherlands.
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The extraordinary rise and mystery surrounding Jos Leideckers.
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He's been filmed and repeatedly identified in the capital of a West African country, Sierra Leone.
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But what's the government doing about it?
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Tracking one of Europe's top drugs fugitives.
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That's all to come on this edition of The Documentary.
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May 1st this year, and the head of the Spanish Coast Guard's anti-drug operation, Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Ramacha, receives a tip-off.
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A cargo boat, the Arconian, is travelling across the Atlantic.
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It's about to transfer a large shipment of cocaine, he's been told, to smaller speedboats off the southern coast of Spain.
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So the cocaine was heading for the Spanish market, you think?
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Customs officers board the ship.
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What they found was no ordinary haul.
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Some 30 tonnes of cocaine packaged in plain view along a corridor running from bow to stern.
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It was the biggest seaborne seizure of cocaine ever made.
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22 crew members from Europe, Africa and Suriname were arrested, but the suspected mastermind behind the shipment, a Dutch drug dealer called Jos Leidikers, who's based in Sierra Leone...
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Well, he remained at large.
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How do you know this has come from Jos Leideckers?
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