Ridouan Taghi: ‘Fake agents’ stole 1,400 kilos of cocaine from Dutch drug baron’s mafia

The gang is said to have stopped a truck with a large shipment of cocaine in Kemzeke, near the border between Belgium and the Netherlands, on August 29. The car was equipped with a blaring police car.

The robbers, who pretended to be police officers, overpowered the driver and took the sports bags filled with cocaine from the truck container, after which they disappeared into the night.

It is estimated that the bags contained 1,400 kilos of cocaine, originating from the gang led by cartel leader Ridouan Taghi.

The police suspect that the cocaine shipment arrived in August in a sea container at quay 913 in the port of Antwerp.

One of the investors in the transport is said to be a close relative of Ridouan Taghi.

After the container was picked up at the port, the Eastern European driver left for Waasland, Belgium, where the organization would unload the cocaine in a warehouse.

According to the newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen, an investigation has now been launched by the Antwerp public prosecutor’s office.

The gang is believed to have targeted a number of drug gangs in the Netherlands and Belgium and stolen millions of euros worth of cocaine from other criminal organisations.

Gang leader Ridouan Taghi leads one of the largest drug gangs in Europe and is responsible for a wave of murders in the Netherlands.

At the end of 2019, Taghi was arrested in Dubai and put on a plane to the Netherlands shortly after his arrest.

In February, a judge sentenced the crime boss in the Marengo murder case to life in prison.

Taghi and his accomplices were charged with six murders, four attempted murders and plans to kill several others.

Taghi was described as the “undisputed leader” of a “murder organization.”

Taghi is seen as the leader of a Dutch-Moroccan drug gang, known as the Mocro Mafia, which controls a large part of the European cocaine trade.

He is a close associate of Daniel Kinahan and it is suspected that they worked together to obtain cocaine shipments from South America.

Taghi, who is believed to be the mastermind behind an Amsterdam-based gang that grew into one of the country’s largest cocaine distributors, was on the run from Dutch authorities for years until he was arrested in Dubai in late 2019.

While on the run, he attended Daniel Kinahan’s wedding at the seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel in 2017.

Ridouan Taghi, once the most wanted man in the Netherlands, was tried in March 2021 in a heavily guarded courthouse, often referred to as ‘The Bunker’, on the outskirts of Amsterdam.