Ridouan Taghi
Moroccan-Dutch suspect (born 1977)
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- Ridouan Taghi (born 20 December 1977) is a Moroccan-Dutch criminal who became a prime suspect in at least ten murders related to organised crime, drug trafficking and leading a criminal organisation.
- Until his late 2019 arrest in Dubai, Taghi was the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands with a record-breaking reward of €100,000.
- Youth Taghi was born in 1977 in the north of Morocco.
- While in the Netherlands, another six sisters and one brother were born.
- The Bad Boys were active in the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht and the mall Cityplaza in Nieuwegein.
Ridouan Taghi (born 20 December 1977) is a Moroccan-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.
Youth
Taghi was born in 1977 in the north of Morocco. 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.
Assassinations
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.
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