Who is Europe's biggest cocaine supplier Bolle Jos?
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Who is Bolle Jos and why is he called Europe’s biggest cocaine supplier?
Dutch cocaine kingpin Bale Jos has been named as Europe's biggest supplier after being linked to a string of multi-ton seizures. Living in Sierra Leone, where he's in a relationship with the president's daughter, Jos has found sanctuary in a corrupt African country with no extradition treaty with Europe. So how will Dutch authorities get their man? And will they send special forces in to grab him from the secure compound where he lives with his partner, Agnes Bio? I'm talking with Niall Donald and you're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com. Why have we not really done an episode on, um, this individual before? It's, I know we've mentioned Bally Joss over a couple of different stories, but we thought we would just do something plainly on him for the moment because what a fascinating character.
Um, And what a nightmare for the Netherlands. And the latest story. So this is a guy, Bally Joss, who is a major big drug dealer that the Netherlands want. I think he's been jailed in absentia there already to a lengthy sentence. And he's based out in Sierra Leone and they're trying desperately to get him back by using, you know, their international contacts, relations, whatever.
Yeah.
But he is well ensconced in Sierra Leone and we'll come on to that. Now, most recently, what I was looking at, he's been linked to this 225 million euro cocaine shipment, which was seized at Dunkirk in France. And that was coming from Ghana. Yeah. Again, you know, there are some arrests around this and these drugs have been caught. It's about three, nearly four tons. Yeah. But he is safely sitting in luxury in Sierra Leone while directing the movement of cocaine around the world.
Yeah, I mean, he could easily be argued to be Europe's biggest single cocaine baron. It's how he's been regularly described. He has these very strong contacts with South America and he's using what we've been calling the African corridor. as a drop off point to get drugs into Holland really. They
actually called it at one point the African trampoline. It's been used previously because there are certain countries in Africa in that region that are very poor and very corrupt and drug dealers make so much money
that
they can really influence and corrupt the top agents of these states and they will allow them kind of use it as essentially a trampoline for the drugs into Europe
So Bally Joss, I mean, one of the reasons he mightn't have done it is because he's on to try and pronounce his real name. I know.
You go for that. You're always good at that.
Well, I don't know about that, but I'll go for a surname. Well, I was being sarcastic. Yeah, OK. Sorry, I didn't keep that up. You missed that. It's Joss Ledge Deckers. Let's put it that way.
Lige deckers, I'd say.
Lige deckers.
How did the ‘African corridor’ help Jos move multi‑tonne cocaine shipments to Europe?
But of course, bole joss means fat joss, really. Or chubby joss. It's one of our own. So, exactly. So, if there's anything guaranteed in the world of gangland, the world over, I suppose. Yeah. If you're a bit chunky, you're going to be called Fat John, Fat Freddy, Fat Puss, Fat something. That's it. So that's, so bole is apparently chubby. It's kind of a cuddly
fat. Do you remember Noir Fal Fassi? One of his nicknames was The Belly. The Belly, yeah, that
was it.
Like they always choose like your worst possible feature or maybe the one that you're particularly sensitive about. Exactly, like the penguin with his slightly waddling... Which I always actually thought was, I thought George Mitchell was called the Penguin because he'd worked, hadn't he, for a biscuit company as a biscuit delivery man, right? Before he kind of got into a little bit of meddling with ecstasy and other areas of organised crime. But it was actually just because of his walk. I mean, he actually walks like a penguin. There was a couple of mean ones as well, wasn't there? But there was a guy in the North called
No-Nick. That was it. It's a paramilitary related sort of
guy. Low neck. There was a, yes, there was, do you remember there was a guy called Wobbly Boots as well? And that man had a, like, a disability.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Bolle Jos and why is he called Europe’s biggest cocaine supplier?
0:02–3:22
2
How did the ‘African corridor’ help Jos move multi‑tonne cocaine shipments to Europe?
3:22–6:02
3
What legal actions have the Netherlands and Belgium taken against Jos, and what sentences has he received?
6:02–10:11
4
Why is Sierra Leone a safe haven for Jos and how does his relationship with the president’s daughter protect him?
10:11–13:38
5
What was the proposed Dutch special‑forces raid on Jos’s fortified compound?
13:38–17:05
6
How did the massive 40‑ton cocaine seizure off the Canary Islands link back to Jos’s network?
17:05–19:38
7
What are the diplomatic tensions between Europe and Sierra Leone over extradition of Jos?
19:38–22:14
8
What future routes might drug traffickers like Jos use once Dubai becomes less viable?
22:14–24:27
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