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Dutch 'handyman' guilty of £1.6bn drug smuggling in fake ambulance

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A Dutch man has been found guilty over an operation to use a fleet of fake ambulances to smuggle drugs with a street value of £1.6bn into the UK.
Father-of-four Leonardus Bijlsma, 55, was described as the "right-hand man" in the operation involving specially adapted vehicles and using ports from Essex to East Yorkshire.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
Co-defendant Dennis Vogelaar, 28, was found not guilty by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.
Olof Schoon, 38, and 51-year-old Richard Engelsbel had already pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.


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Image copyright NAtional Crime Agency Image caption Police found packages of cocaine, heroin and amphetamine as well as thousands of suspected ecstasy pills Prosecutors told the court Bijlsma was the "right-hand man" in the operation to bring large quantities of drugs into the UK.
All four men were arrested after a raid by officers from the National Crime Agency in Smethwick in June.
When officers examined the ambulance they found concealed compartments behind metal rivet panels containing colour-coded parcels.
Inside was 193kg of cocaine worth £30m, 74kg heroin worth £8m in individual deals, and ecstasy tablets and crystal worth £60,000.
Bijlsma had said he was paid 250 euros (£176) per journey by Schoon to be his "co-driver" and handyman on 16 trips across the Channel.
When his DNA was found on a rivet gun and gloves in one of the hidden compartments, he claimed it was because he had used them, adding he was too "dirty" to go into the "sterilised" part of the ambulance reserved for patients.
[h=2]'Audacious' operation[/h]Schoon was described as "the central player" in the operation, which saw a fleet of fully taxed and insured ambulances created in the Netherlands under the pretence of transporting patients to the UK.
Fake invoices and paperwork for false patient transfers to The Royal London Hospital were produced by Schoon's company, despite the hospital having no records of any trips, with false addresses and phone numbers for patients also made.
The scheme ran from April last year until the arrest of the quartet, with Schoon believed to have made 39 separate journeys.
Following the arrests, officers uncovered four more ambulances in a raid on two premises in the Netherlands, with analysis finding 45 trips to the locations in Essex, London, Manchester, Merseyside, the Midlands and West Yorkshire.
In total an estimated £420m of high-purity drugs with a street value of £1.6bn are believed to have been smuggled into the UK.
Prosecutor Robert Davies said the smugglers acted "arrogantly" in carrying out their deals.
"This was a top-level, audacious, and - up to the point of interception and the arrests - successful and lucrative criminal conspiracy," he said.
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Seems like a big link possibly removed from the chain. Hopefully doesn't effect the supply :(
 
It's also remarkably simple, which I assume is how it worked for so long.
No need for cargo ships and midnight speedboat rides when you can put on a suit, write out some information, cover your own back and blend in.

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Yea man. Seems like one of the things that fucked them over was the list of fake names and numbers, maybe would have been better with real people in them. When you see the amount they seized 193kg of coke, 74kg of heroin, I wonder how much actually comes in. I read before the biggest H dealer ever in the UK was only 100kg shipments, wouldn't be surprised if this causes a drought in some areas, based on the fact these amounts are all pre bash.
 
I think that about 20 tonnes of heroin is used annualy in the UK - possible more so don't see a problem. The turk's use to bring in tonnes at a time.
 
Hey maybe we should have a word with Englandgz74 as he has access to an ambulance.
Only joking buddy :)
 
Or we could collect stock from around the country and deliver it to our home towns guaranteeing a great supply of a variety of drugs for the local residents.
 
Use an ambulance like an ice cream van for drugs. Turn up in various places playing nursery rhyme tunes but instead of selling Mr Whippy we sell a variety of chemicals. If the oinks turn up it will look like we're a legitimate ambulance, have some half dead fucker in the back to make things look real.

We can take calls too, imagine the speed we could deliver when using a siren? I'm thinking the siren from Ghostbusters for some reason.
 
MUSHET said:
Use an ambulance like an ice cream van for drugs. Turn up in various places playing nursery rhyme tunes but instead of selling Mr Whippy we sell a variety of chemicals. If the oinks turn up it will look like we're a legitimate ambulance, have some half dead fucker in the back to make things look real.

We can take calls too, imagine the speed we could deliver when using a siren? I'm thinking the siren from Ghostbusters for some reason.
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that's how Duncan of the jungle made his money - never heard of the Glasgow icecream wars> twas all about selling skag
 
Trust me - if you can think of it, those who have their freedom and a few million riding on ingenuity have thought of it. ;)

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Back in the early 80's I knew a crew who had a 300hp boat built for speed- they use to go from morocco to spain in a ridiculously fast time with a ton of hash, the dael was that they took over another outfits gear (morrocan and without said boat) first then come back and get their ton for nothing!! true dat
 
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