Dutch and Suriname Interpol slip-up, murder suspect walks

May 06, 2017 10:53 AM
PARAMARIBO--Judicial authorities in the Netherlands recently arrested and then released a Dutch man who was wanted by Suriname for murder.
They have called it a mistake that has since been rectified, but the wanted man – Terrence de Vries – remains at large again.
 
“At the time of his arrest in Amsterdam, De Vries was a fugitive in Suriname, but not in the Netherlands. Suriname placed him on Interpol’s wanted list, but he was not registered as internationally wanted. That has now been rectified,” an Amsterdam Public Prosecutor said to Amsterdam’s Het Parool newspaper this week.
 
De Vries (33) is wanted in Suriname for the July 3, 2014 murder of Melvin Zoutkamp during a traffic rage incident; Zoutkamp had stepped out of his car in Paramaribo to confront the people in another car, when they shot him down and sped away. Police identified De Vries, Selwyn Quincy Steven Stoutenburg and a third man who went by the alias of “Red” as the culprits.
 
Suriname placed the suspects on Interpol’s wanted list; but while – according to old newspaper clippings – it was clear that the men were no longer in the country, they were only listed as fugitives within the country’s borders. None of them were therefore ever caught.
 
That is until September 13 last year, when officers raided an apartment at Elzenhagensingel in Amsterdam, a suspected meeting place of criminals who have been linked to gun and drug trafficking and executions.
 
During the bust police officers arrested drug suspect Kelvin C. and two women, as well as De Vries. Inside the apartment police found 142 kilogrammes of cocaine, three firearms, 100,000 euros in cash and a number of expensive watches.
 
Prosecutors were stunned when a Judge of Instruction released De Vries from custody a few days later, to await his trial in freedom; his lawyer Pelle Tuinenburg had claimed that he did not know about the cocaine in the house and alarm bells did not go off.
 
By the time authorities realised that they had released an international fugitive, it was too late. Prosecutors tried to have De Vries’ release rescinded, but by then he had disappeared again. He did not appear in court on Wednesday, May 3, leaving the judge to sentence him in absentia to give years in prison for his involvement in the cocaine and gun find.
 
Prosecutors say that the hunt is now on for De Vries, who is now properly listed at Interpol as an international fugitive from the law; wanted as a suspect in the murder of Melvin Zoutkamp in Suriname and for involvement in drug trade in the Netherlands.
 
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