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Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers

Martin Kok had already dodged death once that day. As the 49-year-old Dutch convict turned successful crime blogger left a late lunch at an Amsterdam hotel in December 2016, a hooded man ran up to him, aimed a handgun at point blank range at the back of his head, and prepared to pull the trigger.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-company-secretly-run-by-drug-traffickers