Ex-U.S. Army Ranger faces extradition to Holland after military-style assassination
An ex-U.S. Army Ranger from Connecticut faces extradition to the Netherlands where authorities say he was part of a plot by former and active-duty American soldiers who hired themselves out as a professional hit squad and murdered a German businessman.
Jacob Mazeika grew up in Bristol and was living in New Haven when federal marshals picked him up in the spring at the request of the government of the Netherlands, which claims that Mazeika, with comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan, worked for a Swiss businessman trying to collect a commercial debt worth millions of dollars.
Much of the Dutch investigation, revealed by U.S. prosecutors in federal court filings, reads like a page out of a spy fiction novel: Ex-military specialists summoned from across the world. Plans made to track and neutralize the target. Escape by night train to Zurich. Payoff in euro. Dutch detectives crack the case using the European cellphone network to track killers crisscrossing European borders.
The Dutch say the Swiss businessman behind the murder plot is Lukas Fecker, a self-described mergers and acquisition specialist who buys failing businesses and claims to turn them around. The victim is Thomas Schwarz, a German who, since 2018, lived in Bergen in southwest Holland, a mile or so from the German border near Düsseldorf.
https://www.ajc.com/news/ex-us-army-ranger-faces-extradition-to-holland-in-military-style-assassination/PIQEUTVHEVDZJBL7JTOSQ5PIDE/
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It only gets weirder. Keep reading.
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