Who is the real-life drug lord behind Netflix kingpin Ferry Bouman?

Undercover, a long-running crime story on Netflix, is a gripping, gritty, and often darkly comedic show that was based on true events.

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Pretending to be a couple, two brave secret agents sneak into a drug lord’s private area.

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Frank Lammars plays Ferry Bouman, the drug lord based on a real Dutch crime boss, and his business is broken into by an undercover couple who want to build a case against him.

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Tom Waes, Anna Drijver, and Frank Lammars are the stars of the show.

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Ferry Bouman is based on the real-life Dutch drug lord Janus van Wessenbeeck, who was a bad guy and a figure of fear. The show also gets its ideas from the story of how he fell from power.

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Bouman lives on the border between the Netherlands and Belgium in the show and is presented as a drug lord who makes a lot of ecstasy tablets.

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