Douwe den Held, Author at InSight Crime

News Elites and Crime

Suriname VP, Ex-President Linked to Drug Trafficking in Colombia AG Emails

by Douwe den Held 6 Nov 202310 Nov 2023

Contraband is rife across the Suriname and French Guyana border.

Europe’s Weakest Border? Smuggling Between Suriname and French Guiana

by Douwe den Held 16 May 202313 Oct 2023

Drug traffickers like Dudus Coke or Cesar Peralta made the Caribbean a cocaine hub.

A History of the Caribbean’s Most Powerful Drug Kingpins

by Douwe den Held and Gavin Voss 12 May 202313 Oct 2023

The port city of Antwerp in Belgium came top for cocaine consumption in the wastewater report

News Cocaine Europe

South America’s Cocaine Supply Boom Shows Up in European Wastewater Analysis

by Douwe den Held 3 Apr 202313 Oct 2023

Cocaine seizures in Latin America

InSight Crime’s Cocaine Seizure Round-Up 2022

by Sean Doherty and Douwe den Held 8 Mar 202313 Oct 2023

Luxury cars in Dubai connected to Balkan drug trafficker, Edin Gačanin.

News Cocaine Europe

Was a Super Cartel Really Controlling Europe’s Drug Trade?

by Douwe den Held 29 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

Investigations Ndrangheta Latin America

Cocaine Brokers: The Flexible Backbone of the ’Ndrangheta Trafficking Empire

by Douwe den Held 23 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

The ‘Ndrangheta Connection to Colombia’s Paramilitaries

by Douwe den Held 23 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

Investigations Cocaine

The ‘Ndrangheta: Versatile Middlemen in the Cocaine Pipeline to Europe

by Douwe den Held 23 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

Corruption, Cocaine, and Gold: Interview With Suriname’s President Santokhi

by Alessandro Ford and Douwe den Held 17 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

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Investigations Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic’s Uphill Battle to Root Out Corruption

by Douwe den Held and Anastasia Austin 7 Sep 202219 Oct 2023

Investigations Dominican Republic

César Peralta, the Best Middleman in the Dominican Republic’s Cocaine Trade

by Douwe den Held and Anastasia Austin 7 Sep 202213 Oct 2023

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