UK hunt for Dutch mobster

By SIMON HUGHES
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... &ATTR=News

Published: 26 Jul 2010
A SUSPECTED crime boss dubbed "The Fleeing Dutchman" and accused of ordering SEVEN contract killings is feared to be on the run in Britain.

Dino Soerel, 49, also allegedly behind shipments of cocaine, heroin and cannabis to the UK, has quit his Amsterdam base and is known to have links to Manchester.

Cops in Holland have asked Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency and Interpol to help find the gangland "godfather".

It is thought he may have disguised himself with plastic surgery.

A British police source said: "We understand from colleagues in Holland that this is one bad man.

"We're told he doesn't shrink from violence."

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Crime boss arrested in Amsterdam
Saturday 28 August 2010

One of the Netherlands' most wanted men, Dino Soerel, has been arrested in Amsterdam, police said on Friday evening.

A helicopter and police marksmen were involved in making the arrest on the busy Rozengracht in the capital late on Friday afternoon.

Soerel, who was sentenced in absentia to eight years in jail for drugs smuggling last year, is a known associate of crime boss Willem Holleeder, currently in jail for blackmail.

According to the Telegraaf, Soerel's name has also come up several times in a major ongoing investigation into gangland killings known as the Passage case.

The trial of 10 men and one woman charged with at least seven murders started in the high-security court in Amsterdam in 2009.