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Ridouan Taghi
Ridouan Taghi (born 20 December 1977) is a Moroccan and Dutch criminal who became a prime suspect in at least ten murders related to organised crime, drug trafficking and leading a criminal organisation. On February 27, 2024, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Until his late 2019 arrest in Dubai, Taghi was the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands with a record-breaking reward of €100,000. In 2022 he was held at Nieuw Vosseveld, a maximum security prison in Vught and the main suspect in the Marengo trial.
Taghi was born in 1977 in Bni Selmane, a small town in northern Morocco.[citation needed] In 1980 he moved to Vianen in the Netherlands with his parents, his older brother and two sisters. While in the Netherlands, another six sisters and one brother were born.
In the early 1990s he joined the youth gang Bad Boys. The Bad Boys were active in the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht and the mall Cityplaza in Nieuwegein. In 1992, Taghi was first sentenced for, among other things, burglaries and possession of weapons. At age 17, Taghi quit his VWO-education in Nieuwegein.
For a while he ran a grillroom in the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht. In 2009, he deregistered from the Dutch population administration.
Despite earlier convictions, Taghi remained out of the police's sight. The first time he came to notice again was in 2013, when the Spanish police linked him to the assassination of Mohammed Abdellaoui the same year. At that time, he was also seen as a major cocaine dealer. Starting in 2013, the Team Criminal Intelligence and Financial Intelligence Unit from the Dutch police received tips about Taghi.
The tipping point was when in June 2015 drug trafficker Ebrahim Buzhu reported Taghi and his suspected right hand man Saïd Razzouki to the Dutch police. Buzhu claimed he was on Taghi's hitlist after he helped abduct a coffeeshop owner in 2009, with whom Taghi was friends. Buzhu was found dead near Cádiz in January 2022.
On 20 January 2014, there was an unsuccessful attempt to kill criminal Samir Jabli in Amersfoort. Instead, a student was killed. On 1 December 2014 Jabli was killed in another attempt on his life. Witness Nabil B. has alleged that Taghi was involved in this murder, but the Prosecution left it out of the trial due to lack of evidence. In August 2021, de Telegraaf reported that the police found Taghi's DNA on bullets used in Jabli's assassination.
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Ridouan Taghi
Ridouan Taghi (born 20 December 1977) is a Moroccan and Dutch criminal who became a prime suspect in at least ten murders related to organised crime, drug trafficking and leading a criminal organisation. On February 27, 2024, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Until his late 2019 arrest in Dubai, Taghi was the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands with a record-breaking reward of €100,000. In 2022 he was held at Nieuw Vosseveld, a maximum security prison in Vught and the main suspect in the Marengo trial.
Taghi was born in 1977 in Bni Selmane, a small town in northern Morocco.[citation needed] In 1980 he moved to Vianen in the Netherlands with his parents, his older brother and two sisters. While in the Netherlands, another six sisters and one brother were born.
In the early 1990s he joined the youth gang Bad Boys. The Bad Boys were active in the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht and the mall Cityplaza in Nieuwegein. In 1992, Taghi was first sentenced for, among other things, burglaries and possession of weapons. At age 17, Taghi quit his VWO-education in Nieuwegein.
For a while he ran a grillroom in the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht. In 2009, he deregistered from the Dutch population administration.
Despite earlier convictions, Taghi remained out of the police's sight. The first time he came to notice again was in 2013, when the Spanish police linked him to the assassination of Mohammed Abdellaoui the same year. At that time, he was also seen as a major cocaine dealer. Starting in 2013, the Team Criminal Intelligence and Financial Intelligence Unit from the Dutch police received tips about Taghi.
The tipping point was when in June 2015 drug trafficker Ebrahim Buzhu reported Taghi and his suspected right hand man Saïd Razzouki to the Dutch police. Buzhu claimed he was on Taghi's hitlist after he helped abduct a coffeeshop owner in 2009, with whom Taghi was friends. Buzhu was found dead near Cádiz in January 2022.
On 20 January 2014, there was an unsuccessful attempt to kill criminal Samir Jabli in Amersfoort. Instead, a student was killed. On 1 December 2014 Jabli was killed in another attempt on his life. Witness Nabil B. has alleged that Taghi was involved in this murder, but the Prosecution left it out of the trial due to lack of evidence. In August 2021, de Telegraaf reported that the police found Taghi's DNA on bullets used in Jabli's assassination.