Three of the seven barons of the "Super Cartel" of the cocaine trafficking network based in Dubai are Moroccans. They are Ridouan Taghi , Othman El Ballouti and Hosni A.
The 38-year-old drug baron Othman El Ballouti, who made his fortune in Dubai where he was arrested at the end of 2024, was handed over to the Belgian authorities this Sunday, along with two other traffickers: Giorgi Faes and Mathias Akyazili.
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to extradite the Moroccan drug trafficker Othman El Ballouti, arrested in early December in Dubai, to Belgium.
The United Arab Emirates has handed over to Belgium the Antwerp drug trafficker Mohamed A. A., the former brother-in-law and right-hand man of drug baron Youssef Ben Azza, alias "Monte Christo", who is on the run in Morocco.
The Belgian justice system has suffered a major setback with the escape of Farhan Bouzambou. This heavily convicted drug trafficker evaded his extradition from Dubai by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport.
Morocco has signed an extradition treaty with Belgium for its nationals detained in Belgian prisons, without their consent. An agreement that has allowed 132 Moroccan inmates to be sent back to their country in 2024, or 1% of the Belgian prison population.
Recruited by a drug trafficker from the Paris region currently in prison in Morocco before his extradition to France, to eliminate a competitor in Ulis, two very young Lyon hitmen are facing French justice.
The United Arab Emirates has extradited to France a major French drug trafficker who occasionally resided in Morocco. He had been living in Dubai since 2019.
Morocco requests the extradition of Abdelaziz L., right-hand man of Reda Abakrim, aka "Turbo," and main suspect in the murder of singer Rym Fikri’s husband, arrested on June 6 in Poissy (Yvelines).
While there is an extradition agreement between Morocco and France that came into effect in 2011, neither Rabat nor Paris accept the extradition of their nationals. The extradition of Franco-Moroccan Badiss Mohamed Bajjou, arrested in Tangier (Morocco) on June 3 and suspected of being the mastermind behind "cryptorapts" to France, is therefore impossible. It is still possible that he may serve a potential sentence in French prisons.
The man suspected of shooting twice with a handgun at a club doorman in Mimizan, in May 2024, was arrested in Morocco, then extradited to France.
Arrested in Ifrane, Morocco, then extradited to France, the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Nabil on May 3, 2024, at Place Ginette-Neveu, in the Aubiers district of Bordeaux, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Friday.