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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Would you say he is the most important figure in the West African trade coming to Europe?
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This massive cocaine seizure from West Africa may only be the tip of the iceberg.
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Lucia Bird runs the Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.
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She says the region has become central for meeting Europe's hungry appetite for cocaine.
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Are you worried about state capture here, that literally we have governments in West Africa that are beyond the reach of international law enforcement?
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The Spanish seizure has certainly added to the global focus on Jos Leideckers.
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Just 35 years old, he's already one of Europe's most wanted drug fugitives.
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This is Giel Tiememans.
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He's a Dutch journalist who's pieced together what's known about the beginnings of the Netherlands Mr. Big.
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So it was very rapidly and nobody knew who he was.
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Or at least not until 2019, when Dutch police cracked the secret telephone networks used amongst the local cocaine dealers.
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But before they could move in and seize him, Jos Leidikers had fled to Turkey.
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The authorities were unable to reach him there, although in his absence, both Dutch and Belgian courts have now sentenced Jos Leidikers on multiple counts.
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Dutch journalist Giel Timmermans.
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You're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
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Take him away for 28 hours.
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The contents of the container.
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Container X-movie.
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I'm Ed Butler and today I'm looking at the criminal career of one of Europe's most wanted drug dealers and how he wound up in plain sight in one of Africa's poorest nations.
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It wasn't until June 2023 that Turkish police raided his luxury properties in Istanbul, but again he jumped the gun and no one knew where he'd gone until a few months later.
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