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53-year-old Thanas Bako, accused of laundering the money of cocaine traffickers in the Netherlands and Belgium, was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
"He was involved in serious forms of organized crime," said the decision of the Rotterdam court.
"Thanas Bako admitted a while ago that he "did some wrong things", but according to him, he was nothing more than a messenger who received messages and sent them. His lawyer denied the claim that he was "a major underworld banker" during the hearing last month. However, the court saw him as the head of a criminal organization working for money laundering. "He played an important and necessary role ," added the court.
Bako was arrested in Athens on May 31 last year at the request of the Netherlands and has now been in a Dutch cell for over a year. He is said to have led a network of couriers in the Netherlands via crypto communications, which moved almost a quarter of a billion euros in cash for criminals. This would have happened in the period between June 2020 and March 2021.
The network is said to have operated from various offices in the Netherlands, including Wateringen and Amsterdam. Members of the courier network were sentenced to years in prison earlier this year.
At the end of last year, Greece and the Public Prosecution considered the possibility of agreements for a possible sentence, but this was not possible.
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