Dutch Mafia Boss Flees Spain, Suspected to Hide in Morocco

According to La Razón, the fugitive would have boarded a pleasure boat from the Almeria coast, which would have transported him to a narco-boat waiting for him offshore to help him reach the province of Nador where he has family, contacts and property, while waiting to return to the Netherlands as soon as the opportunity arises.

Karim Bouyakhrichan, alias "Taxi", one of the leaders of the Dutch "Mocro Maffia", is feared and respected in the drug underworld in Europe. In partnership with the Albanian clans, leaders in the cocaine traffic arriving in Europe via the port of Rotterdam, the defendant is involved in money laundering millions of euros. As head of the Moroccan mafia, specialized in organized crime, the fugitive, considered the "most wanted and most dangerous criminal in the Netherlands," does not hesitate to eliminate his competitors and "enemies."

The arrest of Karim Bouyakhrichan in Marbella on January 9 had been hailed by the Dutch authorities who had requested the extradition of the criminal. The Mocro Maffia would be behind the death threats against the Dutch Princess Amalia, which had forced her to take refuge in Spain for nearly a year. But due to lack of coordination between the Spanish judicial authorities (Malaga court and National Court) regarding the extradition of the criminal, the latter finally managed to escape. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

The Mocro Maffia has been sowing terror in the Netherlands for 15 years. In February, its leader, Ridouan Taghi, arrested in Dubai in 2019 and incarcerated in a high-security Dutch prison, was sentenced to life imprisonment as part of the "Marengo" trial. He was found guilty of a series of murders committed between 2015 and 2017.