Prosecutors sought a five-year prison sentence for Jethro L., known as rapper Saaff, over an alleged cryptocurrency scam and the attempted manslaughter of an undercover police officer. L. admitted taking more than €19,000 from a man at a hotel in Amsterdam-Zuidoost after falsely promising to exchange it for cryptocurrency. The prosecution also linked him to two similar alleged fraud cases. L. disputed that messages allegedly threatening the victim were genuine.

The officer was not injured when, prosecutors said, L. stabbed him during an attempted arrest in March 2025; the officer’s protective vest was punctured. L. said he did not know the man was a police officer, denied making a stabbing motion and said he acted in self-defence. His lawyer requested acquittal on that basis. The court is due to rule within two weeks.