Council worker on trial for sale of data linked to explosions

A 47-year-old Amsterdam council worker is on trial for allegedly selling addresses and car registration numbers to criminals, leading to dozens of explosions, in the biggest case of its kind. During the preliminary hearing on Wednesday, the public prosecutor accused the man of corruption and complicity in the explosions and several attacks, one of which involved a shooting. Jim B, who was arrested in May, was described by his superiors at the credit and collection department at the Amsterdam municipal...