![]() ![]() The Moroccan mafia has appeared in most of the large Belgian and Dutch cities including Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Almere. The trade of this illegal economy has its origins in the Moroccan street gangs of Antwerp and Amsterdam, which is described in the 2014 published book Borgerokko Maffia by Raf Sauviller, and also in the book Mocro Maffia by author and criminologist Martijn Schrijver. In Antwerp, the term Borgerokko-Maffia is often used due to the large impact of the illegal economy in the district of Borgerhout. His right-hand man Saïd Razzouki is currently jailed in Bogotá, Colombia, awaiting his extradition to the Netherlands. He is currently jailed in a maximum security prison in the Netherlands awaiting his trial. Later on, Ridouan Taghi became known as the most prominent figure within the Moroccan mafia, who had a large share in the European cocaine trade, and he was also responsible for a lot of gangland killings across Europe. įrom this point on, many people from Dutch- and Belgian-Moroccan descent were killed in various shootouts across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco and Suriname. This eventually led to a gang war amongst multiple criminal organisations which the Dutch and Belgian media outlets described as the infamous Mocro-War. The Moroccan mafia started to gain a lot of attention in Dutch and Belgian media outlets when a large shipment of cocaine was stolen by the Turtle clan in the Port of Antwerp, in 2012. 10 Alliance between the Mocro Maffia and Iranian intelligence agencies.7 Interception of cocaine shipments in the Port of Antwerp.6 Dismantling of the Encrochat and Sky ECC communication networks.3.2 Birth of international drug networks (1995–2006).This is mostly due to the fact that the Netherlands is the largest producer of MDMA and amphetamines in the world. That said, Moroccan-Israeli mafia clans are known for having collaborated closely together with the Mocro Maffia in the Netherlands and Belgium, especially in the worldwide distribution of synthetic drugs such as MDMA. ![]() The Moroccan mafia does not, however, include Moroccan Jewish crime families such as the Abergil crime family as well as the Abutbul and Domrani clans, who are rather considered to be a part of the Israeli mafia. These criminal networks have privileged relationships with Colombian and Mexican cartels, and they often import drugs into Europe through the harbours of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Algeciras. Moroccan criminal networks in Europe are mainly active since the 1990s, and exist mostly out of Belgian and Dutch citizens with a Moroccan immigrant background. In broader terms of Moroccan organized crime, this also includes northern Moroccan hash kingpins and southern Moroccan traffickers who play a key-role in the African drug trade, as well as in human trafficking, arms trafficking and the trafficking of contraband such as cigarettes and alcohol, although they are seen as a separate entity from the Mocro Maffia who are mostly active in the northern part of Morocco and Europe. These organisations are specialised in trafficking large quantities of cocaine and synthetic drugs through Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium, from where it is distributed to the rest of the European continent, thus being one of the most dominant participants in the European drug trade. The Moroccan mafia ( Arabic: مافيا مغربية, Berber languages: ⵎⴰⴼⵢⴰ ⵉⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱⵉⵢⵏ, Dutch: Mocro Maffia) is a term that describes various criminal organisations that are mainly made up of people from Moroccan descent. Occasional violent feuds between various Moroccan mafia clans. Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran Morocco, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, Panama, Suriname, Romania, Irelandĭrug trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, extortion, racketeering, political corruption, murder, contract killing, terrorism, kidnapping, torture, arms trafficking, property crime, robbery, motor vehicle theft, arson ![]() Criminal organisations of people of Moroccan descent ![]()
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