Over 2.5 million people in the Netherlands were affected by the shortage of medicines last year when 1,563 drugs became unavailable, pharmacy organisation KNMP has said. Although the situation was slightly better than in 2023, chairman Aris Prins said the upward trend of the last 10 years shows no signs of abating. Prins said shortages are down to health insurers …
The potential threat that prompted an increase of security around Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was connected to the investigation into the assassination of journalist Peter R. de Vries. The same witness also linked both plots to Ridouan Taghi, the alleged drug lord wanted by Dutch police for years until his arrest in Dubai at the end of 2019. According …
A Hungarian court of appeal sentenced Dutch athlete Roelf B. and his friend Gert-Jan N. to four years in prison for drug trafficking at music festival Sziget in Budapest. Usually, the verdict is converted to Dutch standards, which in practice often means a lower sentence. The police found 5 thousand printed price lists on them, as well as almost 2,700 …
The police discussed the case of missing Jelle Leemans on Opsporing Verzocht on Tuesday. Investigators believe the Belgian man may have been murdered during a drug deal in the Netherlands in November 2013. And surveillance camera footage showed two men around his car in Nispen. The police previously launched a search in Nispen for signs of the missing man, but …
