Belgian Court Sentences 15 Moroccan Mafia Members to 12 Years for Kidnapping Drug Traffickers

The network, which was dismantled in January for hard drug trafficking between Morocco and the Netherlands, was being prosecuted for kidnapping and demanding ransom from two Moroccan drug traffickers, abducted in 2016.

Adil Ennemti, a 41-year-old Moroccan-origin police officer working in Anderlecht, is suspected of being behind the kidnapping of Abdelkader B. on July 7, 2016, and Younes B., 4 months later, immediately after the disappearance of a 400-kilogram cocaine shipment at the port of Antwerp.

While the second victim managed to escape his captors after 38 days of captivity, Abdelkader is still missing, even after his family paid a ransom of 1.6 million euros.