On the run for three years, Oussama B. was arrested on Wednesday at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, a few hours after leaving Morocco. He had just been sentenced to more than eleven years in prison for his role in preparing the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum.
Prosecuted for attempted murder and drug trafficking, a suspect linked to the famous Dutch criminal network appeared Thursday before the Tangier court of appeal. He is accused of acting as an informant for baron Ridouan Taghi.
Long a sanctuary for European drug traffickers, Dubai is losing its appeal due to the increase in extraditions. Pushed out, some leaders of Moroccan-origin organized crime could seek refuge within the kingdom.
The investigation into the murder of Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries is progressing with the arrest in Morocco of Ismail M. This arrest strengthens the hypothesis of a direct involvement of Ridouan Taghi’s criminal organization in this commissioned murder.
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 Spanish police have arrested Firass Taghi, a nephew of Ridouan Taghi, involved in an international drug trafficking operation. The name of this 24-year-old man had been mentioned in escape plans for the leader of the Dutch Mocro Maffia.
Raid in Antwerp: fake cops steal a fortune in cocaine from Ridouan Taghi’s group. A gang of fake cops is sowing chaos in the criminal underworld of Antwerp and the Netherlands.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.