Utrecht will work with ex-criminals to prevent young people from entering the drug environment. This is part of an integrated plan to fight drug crime in the city. From the police, the Public Prosecution Service, the Probation Service to Rabobank and housing associations are participating in this effort.

Utrecht is a hub in the international drug trade. About fifty criminal networks are active in the city and 150 in the region. "Utrecht proposes a reinforced approach to counteract further disruptive efforts of drug crime," said mayor Sharon Dijksma in a letter to the city council on Thursday.

In addition to the prevention of crime, an important element of the approach is aimed at young people who already have one foot in crime and who are at risk of further growth. Utrecht wants to try to keep them on the right track. The municipality will do this by using credible messengers. They are people who got out of crime themselves. They have the authority to help young people make different choices in order to stop the "breeding ground for criminal organizations"

Accomplice Taghi arrested on Curaçao
Last weekend, the police arrested an important contact of Ridouan Taghi in Curaçao. It concerns 49-year-old Gregory 'Greg' F.
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Gregory F., who according to De Telegraaf lived alternately in the Netherlands and Suriname, is suspected of international drug trafficking. He would have had close contact with Ridouan Taghi and other suspects in the Marengo liquidation process. During that process, several messages between the suspects and F. were made public, for example about a large arms find in Nieuwegein. When this came to light in 2015, Taghi confirmed to F. that it could be read in the news, according to justice. "Yes it says everywhere sir. Biggest weapon find ever, luckily not all."

Gregory F. was also kept informed of the murder of spyshopman Ronald Bakker. The messages Taghi sent about this have also been added to Marengo's file. Earlier this year, another key contact of Taghi, 37-year-old Gerel Palm, was arrested in connection with that murder. He was in Suriname until 2017, just like Gregory F., where he was already arrested in March of that year. He managed to escape shortly afterwards, but ran into the lamp in Brazil.

AD writes that in 2010 F. was less involved in the research 'Carnelian'. This concerned the murder of 12-year-old Danny Gubbels, who died when shots were fired at his parents' caravan. Gubbels' father is said to have been involved in a conflict about a batch of lost cocaine.

F. may have also played a small role at Danny M's company, Ennetcom. He previously supplied "unhackable" Blackberries. M. was recently sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for leading a criminal organization, money laundering and forgery.

Dutch PM target of organized crime attack, abduction: Report

https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/27/dutch-pm-target-organized-crime-attack-abduction-report

Six arrested in Breda in major investigation into drugs labs
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September 28, 2021 Police cars outside the trailer park. Photo: Politie.nl
Police have arrested six people after a raid on a trailer park in Breda in connection with a major investigation into drugs-related crime. Several homes and business premises were also searched in the raids, which involved 250 police officers and other officials. Police say they suspect the gang of setting up at least one drugs lab. The five men and one woman arrested were aged between 28 and 60. ‘The homes and business premises were searched not only for evidence but also for valuables bought with the criminal cash,’ police said in a statement. The investigation into the gang started last year and in February, the probe led to four people being arrested at a methamphetamine lab in Zeeland. Three of them were Colombian nationals. Last year, Dutch police closed down 32 meth labs, more than three times the 2019 total.

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Dutch PM under protection as the ‘Mocro Mafia’ drug cartel sows fear in the Netherlands

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Lawyer for suspected crime boss Ridouan Taghi arrested; “Violent” prison break scheme alleged

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Arrests in investigation into millions of trading in steroids
October 9, 2021

The FIOD (financial police) says it has arrested four people on Tuesday in an investigation into the production and trade in illegal medicines and drugs, including anabolic steroids. This happened in the municipalities of Hoeksche Waard, Alphen aan den Rijn and Pijnacker-Nootdorp. Two women, aged 37 and 32, have been identified as suspects but have not been arrested.

The men, aged 50, 50, 40 and 37 respectively, are suspected of illegally producing and trading drugs, including anabolic steroids, in association. According to the investigation, the suspects would have made millions from this trade.

In circles of certain gyms and in the criminal environment, many steroids and growth hormones are used by men who want to get 'bigger'. Use without medical supervision may involve risks. Many of the drugs in which the suspects allegedly traded contain active substances that are on list I or II of the Opium Act.

The group is also suspected of money laundering. The suspects were brought before the examining magistrate on Friday, who has decided to detain them longer. The FIOD thinks that even more people will be arrested.

A lot of shootings all over Holland the last weeks, a guy was shot and injured driving a yellow Lamborghini.
The police arrested criminal Gordon F. in Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon, in connection with the shooting incident in Lijnden on Sunday night.
Gordon., who was heavily addicted to cocaine at the time, shot his drug dealer dead in 2001 after he was insulted by him. He was 21 at the time. He was jailed for seven years for this.
Among his friends are people from the criminal environment. F. would also have acted as a front for drug lord Samir 'Scarface' Bouyakhrichan, who was shot dead in Spain in 2014, by having put real estate to his name. F. was subsequently warned by the police that he had been put on a death list .

In the Netherlands, cocaine gangs are arming themselves with Kalashnikovs, and police officers, lawyers and journalists risk their lives.

For example, the Kroonenberg real estate family got involved in the feud of ‘black sheep’ Gordon F. | Inland
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The pivot in the conflict in which the Amsterdam real estate giant Kroonenberg Groep has found itself is Gordon F., the black sheep of the Kroonenberg family. He was arrested on Tuesday in the Cornelis Schuytstraat in Amsterdam South because of a nighttime shooting in his villa in Lijnden (see box).

As the grandson of ‘Uncle Jaap’ Kroonenberg, Gordon F. inherited a fortune from what is now an Amsterdam billion-dollar company, in which he himself does not play an active role. As a drug addict in his twenties, he ended up in jail for a long time for shooting his drug dealer in De Pijp. He has been in the coterie of serious criminals all his adult life. In the meantime, he would threaten his ex Natascha for more than two years, with whom he had been together for fourteen years and has two teenage daughters, and her boyfriend Souhail el M. That friend is a descendant of a family with a formidable reputation in the Utrecht criminal environment.

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Colombian President Iván Duque is now known to have signed the extradition order for Said Razzouki two weeks ago. This clears the way for the actual extradition of the Moroccan-Dutchman, who is considered the most important accomplice of Ridouan Taghi. According to the news site El Colombiano, it would be a matter of days before Razzouki arrives in the Netherlands.

Earlier in the summer, the Colombian Supreme Court had already approved the extradition. However, that decision was challenged by Razzouki's lawyers in Colombia. However, according to the Colombian Ministry of Justice and the legal department of President Duque's office, the extradition request meets all legal requirements.

In March 2018, the judiciary announced that it was looking for Saïd Razzouki. A prize of 100,000 euros was also placed on his head. It took two years before the wanted criminal was arrested in Medellín, Colombia. The arrest was preceded by a lengthy undercover operation. Four Colombian undercover agents stayed in two safehouses for months to determine Razzouki's location. During his arrest, the wanted criminal was injured by jumping out the window.

The search for Razzouki was reportedly funded by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Multiple arrests in major police action against drug gang in Brabant
The gang is said to be operating drug labs and are also active in Belgium and Germany.
The six arrested suspects are between 20 and 34 years old. They are suspected of producing and trafficking synthetic drugs and participating in a criminal organization.
Main suspect Stefan P., a descendant of the well-known and infamous Roma family P.', was lifted from his bed there this morning at 05:00 am by an arrest team.
Since May 2020, the police have been investigating the gang, which is alleged to be involved in large-scale production of synthetic drugs. The research team was provided with a large number of chat messages from EncroChat, Sky-ECC and Anom, which showed that several involved were operating multiple drug labs in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Labs have already been dismantled in recent months in Tegelen, Ruppach (Germany), Kassel (Germany) and Lanaken (Belgium).

'Cabinet is considering deploying soldiers in Marengo trial'

In order to be able to bolster the security measures surrounding the Marengo criminal trial, the cabinet is in talks with the Public Prosecution Service, the judiciary, the police and the mayors involved about the deployment of military personnel. Sources report this to the NOS . The Marengo trial against the main suspect Ridouan Taghi and sixteen co-defendants is one of several high-security criminal processes that place a heavy burden on the deployment of the police. Hundreds of agents are needed for a Marengo session alone.

The government is very concerned about this heavy extra task for the police, which will most likely continue or even expand in the coming years. This concerns guarding the courthouses, the transport of suspects to and from the prisons and personal protection of lawyers, judges, public prosecutors and witnesses. The armed forces, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, are already deployed for various tasks related to criminal processes.

Taghi much more closely guarded in EBI by anonymous guards with balaclavas
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AMSTERDAM - Unprecedented strict security measures have been taken against Ridouan Taghi in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught. The drug lord is now guarded by a special team of unrecognizable guards in balaclavas.

EenVandaag reports about this. This rock-hard prison regime came into effect at the beginning of October, immediately after the arrest of his lawyer and cousin Youssef Taghi, who is suspected of plotting a violent outbreak. Since then, Taghi has been increasingly isolated in prison.

"The current detention conditions that Taghi is confronted with are unique for the Netherlands," says his detention lawyer Thomas van der Horst. The guards wear a different uniform than the regular prison staff. Internal glass walls in the EBI have been taped, so that the main suspect in the liquidation process Marengo cannot see who is in the room.

The complaints of Utrecht resident Robin van O., who is a main suspect in the case of the torture containers and also a suspect in large-scale cocaine trafficking, have been 'not estimated correctly' by doctors in the penitentiary institutions of Zutphen and Leeuwarden. This is stated in an independent medical report on the development of his disease. According to that report, Van O. is no longer suitable for detention. On Tuesday it was announced that Van O. is terminally ill. He turns out to have a form of skin cancer that has spread in many places, including in the breast and lymph nodes. There is a threat of a spinal cord injury. His chest needs to be drained.

The report states the advice to let Van O. go home, insofar as home treatment is at least still possible. Van O. has since been admitted to the penitentiary hospital in Scheveningen.

Brabant 'ecstasy king' Peerke S. arrested
The police arrested one of the most important leaders of the Brabant underworld on Tuesday. It concerns Peter 'Peerke' S. (59). He was considered by the police and the judiciary as one of the world's largest ecstasy producers and testified in the Passage liquidation process.

S. from Eindhoven was arrested along with seven other people. There have been raids on 14 buildings in Eindhoven, Valkenswaard, Bladel and Waalre, among others. The men are said to have been involved in the large-scale production of synthetic drugs. This is an investigation by the National Police.

'Peerke' was sentenced in 2003 to 13 years for worldwide ecstasy trafficking. According to the Public Prosecution Service S. was seen as the or one of the greatest ecstasy barons in the world.

The Brabant leader had only just been released in 2010 when his home in Eindhoven came under heavy fire with machine guns. A significant part of the more than a hundred bullets fired pierced S.'s home and adjacent buildings.

A major underworld war raged in Brabant in which people were killed, houses were fired upon and hand grenades were thrown. The shooting dominated the news for days at the time and caused mayors to sound the alarm in The Hague to do something against the drug industry and violence.

The 67-year-old Dutch construction contractor Hendrik P. was arrested on Thursday evening in his hometown of Maaseik in an investigation into large-scale drug and cigarette trade.
In the same investigation by the Belgian and Dutch police, thirteen suspects were arrested in Belgium on Wednesday morning. In the Netherlands, eight suspects were arrested in fifteen raids. A total of 29 house searches were carried out, fourteen of which were in Belgium.
Police and justice see Hendrik P. as the key figure in the drug trade and the illegal production of cigarettes. He is suspected of participating in a criminal organization that focused on cigarette production, cannabis cultivation and two drug labs.
In Maasmechelen, 'Lieutenant' Nico B. of the Aquino clan was arrested. He was released in June 2019 with an ankle bracelet after serving seven years in prison for international cocaine shipments.
The criminal organization around the Aquino brothers, a Calabrian family from Maasmechelen, is said to have imported at least 2.4 tons of cocaine from South America during at least fifteen years. The two brothers Raf Aquino and Mario Aquino were sentenced to ten and seven years in prison before the Antwerp Court of Appeal in 2017.

Ridouan Taghi was required by the court to come today. Taghi also informed the court that he did not want to say anything:

"Unfortunately I can't say anything about it. I'd rather die or spend life in isolation than ever calling anyone's name or exonerating anyone."

During the trial they also heard Saïd Razzouki, one of the main suspects, was extradited from Colombia to the Netherlands on Monday. For safety reasons, he was flown to the Netherlands on a chartered plane accompanied by the Dutch police in the night from Monday to Tuesday.

After arriving in the Netherlands, the police transferred Razzouki to the Extra Secure Institution in Vught.

Justice has turned to the Dutch army because of plans to free Taghi, Razzouki and Rico the Chilean from the EBI the Dutch maximum security prison.

In the investigation into the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum, a cousin of Ridouan Taghi, who was arrested in Morocco, is also in the picture of the police and the judiciary. Jaouad F. (27) from Nieuwegein was arrested in October because he is suspected of involvement in the mistaken murder of the son of a Moroccan judge in Marrakech (2017).

According to the judiciary, Jaouad F. communicated frequently with Anouar Taghi and a few others about preparations for the murder of Wiersum. Website NU.nl writes that this became apparent on Friday during an interim session in the case against Anouar Taghi (another cousin of Ridouan Taghi) and some co-defendants in the Amsterdam court. The Public Prosecution Service suspects Anouar Taghi and co-suspects of involvement in the preparation of the murder and participation in a criminal organization.

It appears the Taghi's are a huge clan.

On Thursday, the court in Breda sentenced six men to 4 years in prison for involvement in a crystal meth lab in the Zeeland town of Westdorpe. A 55-year-old Dutchman will receive 4.5 years in prison, three Dominicans (31, 54 and 57) and two Mexicans (40 and 49) will receive four years in prison. The Dutchman's sentence is higher because 1,080 grams of amphetamine were found in his home.

The six men – who had previously been jailed for five years – deny their involvement. They stated that they worked in the lab as a handyman, cleaner and welder. The court does not believe this.

Crystal meth is also new for European market. The trade and production of the highly addictive drugs, known from the TV series Breaking Bad, is on the rise in the Netherlands. It seems that Mexican cartels and Dutch pill farmers have joined forces. It is therefore a lucrative business. You pay between 50 and 100 euros for a gram of crystal meth. At fifteen kilos, the street value is already above a million euros.

The Dutchman Herman X. has been sentenced by the court in Koblenz to five years and nine months in prison for participating in a criminal organization. In an old five-storey NATO bunker below the village of Traben-Trarbach, the Dutchman operated servers with which numerous criminal activities were carried out. For example, the servers hosted websites of marketplaces on the dark web where weapons and drugs were sold. Also, the bunker was home to spam servers and cyber attacks.

X.'s 35-year-old son has also been sentenced to four years and three months in prison. Two other Dutch citizens, and four others, received reduced prison sentences for their contribution to the hosting center. X. had taken over the bunker in Traben-Trarbach from the German state.

In September 2019 , 650 German officials pulled the plug on the bunker and arrested a series of suspects.


Herman Xennt is a close associate of notorious Irish boss George 'the Penguin' Mitchell.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021 - 13:20
Five arrested in €150 million cocaine bust
The police arrested five men last week in an ongoing drug trafficking investigation. Officers also seized 2,000 kilograms of cocaine, worth 150 million euros.

The suspects are three men from The Hague aged 31, 34, and 39, a 47-year-old man from Turkey, and a 21-year-old from Morocco. The police arrested them in a warehouse in Voorschoten, where the drugs were also found. The cocaine was destroyed.

The five men were arranged and remanded into custody. They are in restricted custody, which means they are only allowed contact with their lawyers.

The investigation is ongoing.

'Piet S. made statements about his role in the underworld'
December 18, 2021

'Piet S. made statements about his role in the underworld'
The Hague drug lord Piet S. recently made a series of statements to detectives in the Taxus investigation, in which he and others are suspected of large-scale drug transport. According to De Telegraaf, he said that he mediated in the conflict between the groups of Gwenette Martha and Houssine A., which led, among other things, to the double murder in the Amsterdam Staatsliedenbuurt.


Referee
S. describes himself as a sort of underworld arbiter who mediated conflicts. Piet S.: 'war is not money.'

It was recently announced that Piet S. and drug trafficker Stanley “Kai” Esser , who died last year, had been asked to mediate in the conflict surrounding the De Groot fruit company in Hedel.

Piet S. broke the silence at the Rotterdam headquarters but did not mention any names. He says he testified because he was forced to do so because of allegations that he would lead a global drug network. S. denies those allegations.

“Mocro War”
S. says he mediated for years in the “Mocro War” with three others and has “contributed to a solution.” S. says that he regularly used listening devices to check whether stories were correct. He also mediated a dispute over the amount of crystal meth that could be extracted from chemicals. Through contacts in Mexico he was able to get the correct information about this.

According to S., there was a pot in which crime groups put money. S. and his fellow mediators were paid from that pot

Piet S.: 'One of the reasons was also that they ended up with us, that we no longer import anything ourselves. We had no interest in doing things.' S. says that his decades of experience allowed him to check exactly whether stories were correct and that he understood 'business processes' and problems well.

The godfather from The Hague also told how he bought up companies in South America and then started a legal flow of goods with those companies. These companies were then subjected to various checks in which nothing was found. Then he sold those companies.

S. confesses in the past – in the eighties – to have dealt in drugs, especially in hash. He has also been convicted for this.

A 56 year old man was shot dead in Amstelveen he was known to the police.

Man shot dead in Amstelveen is known criminal Itzhak Meiri, was on the death list

The 56-year-old Almeerder who was shot dead in Amstelveen this morning is Itzhak Meiri, a well-known person in the Amsterdam criminal environment. In 2008 he was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for extorting Amsterdam businessmen and had been on a death list for years, Het Parool reports .

Itzhak Meiri (December 16, 1965), from Israel, has been "chief financial officer" of the Sea of ??Love Cosmetics firm since early 2014, in perfumes and make-up – mainly "dead sea products", as he put it himself. .

checkered fifties
Amsterdam businessmen and criminals knew the checkered fifties as a strong arm and blackmailer.

The detectives warned him several times in recent years that he was about to be liquidated. As far as we know, this happened last summer.

Two suspects who were accused by the judiciary of preparing the murder of the Turkish-Dutch drug trafficker Ahmet G., according to the judiciary, had also previously planned to kill Itzhak Meiri. (Ahmet G. had escaped death in 2019 when he and his 17-year-old daughter were shot at their then home in Amstelveen.) An SD card found with the duo contained images of Meiri's house in Almere. A beacon was mounted under his car with which they appeared to be following Meiri.

The charge that the two had targeted Meiri as "spotters" (observers) was ultimately insufficient evidence, so they were not prosecuted for those murder plans.

Beachwear in court
In 2006 Meiri, demonstrative in beachwear, ran away from the court in Dordrecht together with his lawyers at the time. He handled his multiple extortion case because the Amsterdam court was too busy. Meiri did not recognize the Dordrecht court, which led to the necessary consternation.

In his absence, the prosecutor at the time described him as "a professional" who "impressed himself on his victims for a long time and systematically, without compassion". It was about businessmen who seemed vulnerable. The prosecution then: "Meiri created, subtly or not, a particularly great fear and threat. He gorged himself and made use of the network and contacts of his victims. He was trying to make his way to the upper world.”

Witnesses said a man who was about 20 years of age pulled the trigger, killing the victim on Wednesday, police said. The gunman was described as being about 1.80 meters tall, wearing a dark shirt or jacket, jeans, and a black beanie hat. He was last seen near the Rembrandtweg area, not far from the crime scene.

Forensic investigators spent the afternoon collecting trace evidence, police said. Witnesses told reporters that a mobile phone was found on the ground near a BMW 750LD parked at the crime scene.

That's quick!!

The police arrested two Amsterdammers, aged 21 and 22, on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in the shooting in Amstelveen, in which 56-year-old Itzhak Meiri from Almere was killed on Wednesday. The detective team tracked down the two suspects, after which an arrest team arrested the duo in Amsterdam-East on Thursday around 4 p.m.

The 22-year-old man was released after questioning. He remains a suspect in the case, police said. The 21-year-old suspect was brought before the examining magistrate and placed in pre-trial detention for fourteen days. He is in limitations.