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As of October 2026: Rejects Dutch claims; says suspension is procedural
The European Commission halted €18 million in budget payments to Sierra Leone, a freeze Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel says punishes the West African state for sheltering Jos Leijdekkers, a Dutch cocaine trafficker on Europol's wanted list. Leijdekkers has been sentenced in absentia to more than 100 years across Belgium and the Netherlands, and the €18 million is part of €352 million the EU budgeted for Sierra Leone from 2021 to 2027.
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