250 k is nothing for someone with 4 coffee shops to serve. how else is he supposed to get stuff to sell in his shop but to buy it on the international market. there is not enough grown in Holland anymore to supply the coffee shops, they are forced to import. specially hash is only available if you import it. but yeah he should have had someone else take care of that side of the business, still if you think about it all he was doing was organizing stock for his 4 shops.
Don't be hating on the cops, they are just doing their job and are following orders, don't blame the politicians, they just do or say anything to get votes to stay in or to get in power ...the reasons why this is happening (the crackdown on coffeeshops) are varied, but it probably all started when Amsterdam residents, old couples and young couples with kids started complaining to the controllers (politicians) about the loud, obnoxious, drunken louts from the UK and parts of Europe who roam the streets of Amsterdam pissing on walls, vomiting on sidewalks and generally being assholes. ..they just want their streets back, can't blame them, can you?
The problem is that if and when they get their wish of doing away with almost all the coffee shops and hookers, then the filthy street rats (the junkies, shady street dealers and other rip off artists) will multiply making Amsterdam even less safer...then the police will become more Gestapo like they are in the USA and less decent, fair and polite (or less Politie) as they are now.
It's not going to happen, but if they banned alcohol sales (instead of ganja) to non-Dutch visitors, then the night streets of Amsterdam would become a much safer and nicer place.