Ridouan Taghi

Articles

• Spanish Police Dismantle Mocro Maffia Network, Seize €50 Million in Assets on Costa del Sol
  28 January 2024, by Prince

  The Spanish National Police this week dismantled the branch of the Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Netherlands and Belgium, on the Costa del Sol. In total, 172 properties worth more than 50 million euros, as well as 3 million euros spread over more than 100 bank accounts, were seized.
  The Spanish police had been investigating for 6 years this branch of the Dutch Mocro Maffia that had settled on the Costa del Sol. This significant (…)

• Dutch Police Arrest Moroccan Suspect in Lawyer’s Murder Case
  26 November 2019, by Kamal

  The cousin of Redouane Taghi has just been arrested by the Dutch authorities for his alleged involvement in the murder of the lawyer of a Moroccan national.
  The case dates back to last September, when lawyer Derk Wiersum was shot dead by several bullets a few meters from his home in Amsterdam by unknown individuals, presumably hired by one Anouar Taghi.
  According to the elements of the investigation carried out by the security services, Redouane Taghi’s cousin, acting on the initiative (…)

• Moroccan Intelligence Chief Lauded by Dutch Police for Role in Major Crime Boss Arrest
  23 December 2019, by Kamal

  The Director General of the DGSN and the DGST, Abdellatif Hammouchi, received a telephone call from the Director General of the Dutch police, following the arrest of Ridouan Taghi.
  The senior security official expressed his gratitude for the role played by the Moroccan security services and his high gratitude for the exemplary collaboration deployed by the services of the two countries that allowed to determine the location of the fugitive criminal, Redouan Taghi.
  The call was, (…)

• Dubai Arrests Second Moroccan Mafia Suspect Wanted for Multiple Murders
  28 January 2020, by Kamal

  A few weeks after the arrest of the most wanted criminal, Ridouane Taghi, the police of the United Arab Emirates have just arrested another person accused in murder cases, on the run for many years.
  This is the Moroccan, Khalid J., prosecuted for belonging to a Moroccan mafia and for his alleged involvement in cases of settling scores.
  The accused is accused by the Dutch judicial authorities of being the instigator of several homicides. He is also suspected of having assassinated the (…)

• Moroccan Customs Seizes Assets of "La Crème" Café Owner in Money Laundering Probe
  20 October 2020, by Kamal

  The Moroccan Customs Administration has seized the property of the owner of the "La Crème" café. Mustapha Fechtali, this Rif entrepreneur targeted in 2017 during the Marrakech shootout, was buried under a mountain of cash.
  According to the newspaper AlBayane, the real estate assets of the nicknamed Mous were not limited to the city of Marrakech alone. The man had 3 villas in the chic neighborhoods of the ochre city, an apartment in the "Yacht" residence, on the Casablanca corniche, and (…)

• Top Dutch Drug Lord Extradited from Colombia to Face Charges in Netherlands
  10 November 2021, by Prince

  Saïd Razzouki, a Dutch drug trafficker of Moroccan origin who had been living in Sabaneta, Colombia for four years and had been arrested two years ago following an international arrest warrant issued against him by Interpol, will be extradited to the Netherlands.
  The Moroccan-Dutch, 48, actively sought since 2018 by the Dutch intelligence services, was located on February 7, 2020 in a luxurious apartment in the residential area of the municipality of Sabaneta (Antioquia) in Colombia. (…)

• Belgian Crime Boss Accused of Running Drug Ring from Moroccan Prison
  26 February 2022, by Ginette

  Sentenced in 2011 to twelve years in prison for his escape from the Bruges prison, the Belgian-Moroccan Ashraf Sekkaki continues to serve his sentence not far from Rabat. In a telephone interview with HLN, he discussed various issues concerning his prison life, and the accusations against him for drug, arms and other trafficking from prison.
  Ashraf Sekkaki is described as one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. Involved in numerous robberies and kidnappings, he has escaped from (…)

• Dutch-Moroccan Drug Cartel Suspected in Attack on Spanish Far-Right Politician
  6 February 2024, by Prince

  The Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Netherlands and Belgium, would be behind the assassination attempt targeting the 78-year-old Spanish politician, Alejo Vidal Quadras.
  According to sources close to the investigation opened in this case, the Moroccan mafia active in the Netherlands would have recruited Mehrez Ayari, a 27-year-old French of Tunisian origin living in Paris, to target Quadras, a former leader of the Spanish Popular (…)

• Morocco’s Top Court Orders Review of Dutch Nationals’ Death Sentences in Marrakech Cafe Murder Case
  1 August 2024, by Said

  Sentenced to death in Morocco in 2017 for a murder committed by mistake at the Café la Crème in Marrakech, two Dutch nationals could see their fate improve. The highest Moroccan court has referred the case back to the Casablanca Court of Appeal, considering that the cooperative attitude of the two men had not been sufficiently taken into account in their initial conviction.
  Shadyone S. and Edwin R.M. had admitted their guilt and revealed the identity of the sponsors of the murder, which (…)

• Former Moroccan Official Dismisses ’Mocro Maffia’ as Dutch Political Fabrication
  19 August 2024, by Prince

  The former leader of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) and former president of the Tangier-Tetouan region, Ilyas Omari, recently claimed that the Mocro Maffia is a "construction of Dutch politicians".
  The Mocro Maffia is only a "construction of Dutch politicians," said Ilyas Omari in an interview with Thierry Oberlé, special correspondent of the Parisian weekly Le Point in Morocco to investigate this Moroccan mafia specialized in international drug trafficking and organized (…)