Dutch cocaine trafficker Jos Leijdekkers, 35, has become the world's most wanted drug smuggler following the arrest and extradition of Daniel Kinahan from Dubai to Ireland earlier this month. Leijdekkers, nicknamed "Chubby Jos", is reportedly living openly and with apparent impunity in Sierra Leone, where he is said to have married the president's daughter and fathered a child with her, despite being sentenced in his absence by Dutch and Belgian courts to more than 100 years in prison. His presence has fuelled concerns that the West African nation is becoming a key transit point for cocaine trafficking between South America and Europe, and risks turning into a "narco state".

Leijdekkers, who has adopted the alias Omar Sheriff, is said to reside in villas at the Two Seasons resort on Tokeh Beach near the capital Freetown, travelling with a private motorcade. He is accused of masterminding the shipment of the Comoros-flagged vessel Arconian, from which Spanish police seized more than 30 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated £700 million this May, the largest single cocaine seizure on record. The Netherlands has reportedly stepped up efforts to capture him, including a covert special forces operation in international waters near Ivory Coast that was aborted twice at the last minute.