A notorious criminal in the Netherlands, Moroccan-Dutch Redouane Taghi, was aided by a soldier from the country’s special forces. Unexpected revelations that embarrass the country.
“On February 1, a special forces soldier was arrested. The man is suspected of preparing to import narcotics, embezzlement of military property, involvement in the arms trade and illegal possession of weapons, ”confirmed the public prosecutor of Arnhem (the east of the Netherlands) to the Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf.
The 42-year-old sergeant major is suspected of having “shared his in-depth knowledge of special operations, weapons and tactics with criminals”, continues the same source. Very serious charges against the senior non-commissioned officer who is part of “the most elite special forces unit in the Dutch army”, the Dutch equivalent of the American Delta Force or the British SAS, writes the magazine Vice.
Worse still, this ultra-sensitive information would have been communicated to the most violent drug lord in the country, Redouane Taghi arrested in 2019, after several years on the run. The sergeant-major would have put ultra-sophisticated weapons in the hands of the Moroccan, suspected of being behind the largest number of assassinations in the country’s history.
The famous Redouane Taghi was born on December 20, 1977 in Bni Selmane (a few kilometers from Chefchaouen). He took his first steps on the criminal path before embarking on drug trafficking, allying himself with the Colombian and Mexican cartels.
The Taghi network managed to bring in nearly a ton of cocaine per month via Morocco, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, confided a former member of his network Ebrahim B., to the daily NRC. Very early, Redouane Taghi will be in the sights of the Dutch authorities, then Spanish and Moroccan.
In Morocco, he is suspected of being the sponsor of the La Crème café shooting in November 2017, which claimed the life of the wrong target, a young medical student.
Taghi will spend several years on the run, without ever ceasing his criminal activity and without ever being located. In December 2019, the Emirati authorities announced his arrest, thus ending a manhunt launched by the Dutch authorities who had also offered a reward of 100,000 euros to anyone who could help find him. The Dutch authorities are continuing their investigation and new startling revelations should be announced in this sprawling case.
