On-the-run smuggler who trafficked seven tonnes of cocaine 'in Sierra Leone'
Jos Leijdekkers has been hiding in the West African country, according to authorities in the Netherlands.
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Wanted Dutch drug-smuggler 'is in Sierra Leone'
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Suspected people smugglers face phone and travel ban
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