'Pentito Imperiale made statements in Dutch criminal case' (UPDATE)
March 19, 2024

The Italian Raffaele Imperiale, who is on trial in Italy for leading a criminal drug organization and is a key witness (" pentito "), made statements in September last year in the Dutch criminal case about Rico "De Chileen" R., among others . That's what Het Parool writes .


Amsterdam
The Orinus 2 case revolves around a criminal organization whose members are allegedly guilty of money laundering, possession of weapons and murder. There was a preliminary hearing in the criminal case before the court in Amsterdam on Tuesday.

A prosecutor there announced that a Dutch police team traveled to Italy last September to interrogate Raffaele Imperiale. He is said to have made a number of statements.

Dubai
Rico R. was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2021 for leading criminal organizations with the aim of liquidations and money laundering, in the Orinus 1 case.

Justice counts Imperiale as a criminal contact of both Rico R. and Ridouan Taghi. He once lived in Amsterdam for a while and worked in the Rockland coffee shop in the Raadhuisstraat. He is said to have entered the cocaine trade and then settled in Dubai.

After years of litigation and negotiations, he was arrested in Dubai in 2021, at the request of the Italian authorities. As a regret, he made a series of statements in Italian cases. In Italy, Imperiale has now been sentenced to 14 years in prison in his trial .

Nothing known
Nothing is yet known about the content of the statements.

Imperiale is also discussed in the criminal case against former criminal lawyer Inez Weski . Weski is suspected of having passed on information from her client Taghi to his son. That information is said to be related to cocaine or financial transactions between the Taghi family and Imperiale.

Fallen TV presenter and lawyer Khalid Kasem has handled cases in Dubai for Imperiale, which, according to Kasem, relate to 'family law'.

Car company Naarden
According to De Telegraaf, it was also announced at the hearing before the Amsterdam court that former car dealer Carel B. (75) from Naarden is suspected of participating in a criminal organization affiliated with Ridouan Taghi and Raffaele Imperiale. B. is said to have laundered 1,300,000 euros together with a large number of co-suspects between 2014 and 2017, including through his car company in Naarden.

Expensive cars, including a Lamborghini, were shot at at Carel B.'s former car company in 2022. That company has now gone bankrupt.