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".
Spanish investigators are trying to determine the link between Franco-Tunisian Mehrez Ayari, arrested in the Netherlands in early June as the alleged perpetrator of the attempted assassination against Spanish politician Alejo Vidal-Quadras , and the Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia sowing terror in Europe.
The Mocro Maffia would be behind the assassination of a man in Galicia, a city located in northwestern Spain. The victim, shot in broad daylight, would have been mistaken for his brother who was the target of the Moroccan mafia. The police lean towards a settling of scores related to drug trafficking.
Four international drug trafficking networks, including the Mocro Maffia, are trying to expand their sphere of influence in Spain to escape police pressure in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Mocro Maffia , the Moroccan criminal network specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime in Belgium and the Netherlands, is gradually expanding its area of influence in Spain. While it had concentrated its operations only on the Costa del Sol, the gang is now active in Barcelona and Madrid.
The Marbella court has issued an international arrest warrant against Karim Bouyakhrichan , the head of the Dutch Mocro Maffia who fled Spain after being released at the end of February by the provincial court of Malaga.
Under judicial supervision and awaiting extradition to the Netherlands, Karim Bouyakhrichan, leader of the Dutch Mocro Maffia accused of threatening to kill Princess Amalia , managed to leave Spain a few days ago. He is said to have taken refuge in the Nador region of Morocco.
Karim Bouyakhrichan, the leader of the Dutch Mocro Maffia who had threatened to kill Princess Amalia , has just fled Spain where he was awaiting extradition to the Netherlands. This has caused concern within the Dutch royal family.
Elements of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of Ceuta have arrested this Thursday an individual, suspected to be close to the Mocro maffia, accused of several crimes including a kidnapping in Catalonia.
The Spanish police, in collaboration with the Colombian authorities, arrested a drug lord "presumed responsible for the cartel’s (Medellin) operations in Europe". The defendant would have links with the Mocro Maffia , the Moroccan mafia active in the Netherlands and Belgium.
In Spain, Karim Bouyakhrichan (46), one of the main leaders of the Mocro maffia , a mafia organization based in the Netherlands and Belgium, arrested in January in the seaside resort of Marbella, on suspicion of money laundering from drug trafficking, has been released.
A man of Moroccan origin convicted of drug-related attacks in Belgium has seen his conviction overturned on appeal, but he nevertheless finds himself behind bars, this time in Dubai.