02x04 - Het driemanschap

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RADIO: He was already the most wanted
criminal in the Netherlands...

and the prime suspect in the case
surrounding the mocromafia.

But now Ridouan Taghi is being
is being linked to even more murderous
associated.

VO: Ridouan Taghi is at the top of the ladder, according to
Justice Department is at the top of the
mocromafia.

His organization would have
several assassination commands...

have given orders
to get enemies out of the way.

According to the prosecution
Taghi has...

also paid motorcycle club Caloh Wagoh
to carry out liquidations.

Taghi was livid.

Someone had to pay,
as always someone has to pay.

And then it's about
about Robin van O. and Moes F.

According to the police, these are considered to be
archenemies of Ridouan Taghi.

Some people commission
to have their garden redone....

in this motorcycle club, it was just
it was just as easy to take orders
to blow people to pieces.

VO: Police are investigating a
scenario about who might
involved...

on the death
of this Stefaan Bogaerts.

Tony also stated about that.
Thirty to forty people had to
be k*lled.

But experience shows,
with witnesses of this caliber...

that he would still
for the rest of his life...

over his shoulder will
have to keep looking over his shoulder.

VO: But the mocromafia is more
than just the organization
of Ridouan Taghi.

According to the Justice Department, Taghi formed
with two other leading figures...

The top of the mocromafia.

Rico R. and Naoufal F,
a trio.

I certainly believe that that megatrio
is there,it has always fascinated me.

Who is actually
ultimately the boss?

VO: And this top of the Dutch
underworld has close ties...

with the powerful drug cartels
from South America...

and mafia clans
in Ireland and Italy, among others.

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VO: Just about all the leading figures
of the mocromafia are in jail.

In the investigations
into these suspects...

according to the Justice Department, it is becoming clear
that in recent years...

there was an absolute peak
within the mocromafia....

that had the underworld in its grip.

A triumvirate between
Taghi,Nico R. and Noffel.

According to the Justice Department, this is evidenced by
PGP messages that were intercepted....

and found on data carriers
of some members...

from the organizations.

But who are these Rico
the Chilean and Noffel?

And why, according to Justice, do they form
a triumvirate with Taghi?

Rico is born in Chile, so he has
he also has the nickname Rico the Chilean.

Bonzo is also called.

And he came as an 8-year-old boy
came to the Netherlands.

His father was one of the Chileans
who were actually k*lled after the coup
of Pinochet...

immigrated or fled
to the Netherlands.

SASKIA: They ended up
ended up in Amsterdam-North.

And that's where Rico the Chilean
actually developed fairly quickly....

to an Amsterdam street urchin.

I'm Saskia Belleman
and I'm a court reporter

From The Telegraph.

What is interesting to know,and
that may be the reason after all....

why he ended up on the drug circuit
ended up...

is that his father became involved
in cocaine trafficking.

That wasn't a big player
in the circuit...

but because Rico
was able to speak fluent Spanish
and fluent Dutch...

his father used him
as an interpreter with some regularity.

MICK: Actually
at a pretty young age
he was already going down the wrong path.

His father was
also caught for drugs....

Was in the drug trade and coke.

And Rico also ended up
on the wrong path.

First he was a little bit
in the graffiti scene...

and then later he got involved
with the wrong types, muggers.

And so slowly he came into contact with some
tougher guys.

And in fact, he's only become a little
become known to us....

when first in Germany in '99
was already sentenced to 11 years...

no less,for cocaine trafficking.

Well,he served 6,


And then it came back again.

He at one point
left for Colombia...

Has also been in Costa Rica,
has been in Dubai...

and there he actually got himself fully
engaged in the drug trade.

That's when he actually
shows up for the police...

in a kind of network with big names.

From that time dates probably
the collaboration
with Ridouan Taghi.

But there have been many more
collaborations have been...

with criminals
in that whole drug circuit.

It was only after his arrest
did he really become known...

and it's actually
a very different type of criminal....

than the other people
within the mocromafia.

He's a little more noiseless,a little quieter.

If you're just going by
on his appearance...

you would say: it's a bit
a boring accountant....

because that's what he looks like.
It's a man with glasses....

neat hair... Very different from
the average suspect...

who you see sitting in the suspect bank
see sitting.

It's not a braniac,
it's not a tough guy.

It's not someone who is emotionally
is going to scream or whatever.

A very decent,quiet man.

But according to the police at the
operating at the very highest level....

and very good
international contacts.

He is, according to the Public
Ministry a man...

who, together with Ridouan Taghi
pulled the strings...

of no less than
three criminal organizations.

One focused on drug trafficking,
one focused on money laundering...

From the profits of that drug trade....

and one that was aimed
on committing liquidations.

VO: The Amsterdammer Rico
has thus, in all these years,...

slowly worked his way up
within the underworld...

and, according to the Justice Department.
started working together...

With the organization of Taghi,
and with Naoufal F.

The third person who
would have been involved...

is Naoufal F,who in the walk
Noffel is called.

Actually, there is no one
within that whole mocromafia....

About whom with such awe,
but actually even with disgust...

Talked like it was about Noffel.

It's a bulbous man,fat.

He was also featured in chats
that were intercepted...

regularly referred to as "that sphere.

Well, I could
when I saw him.

He is rather thick,bald....

Always wearing a hoodie
or a sweatshirt on.

Very different type
than Rico the Chilean...

who's more like a little
kind of a gentleman...

neatly dressed.

Noffel is
also called Ex Tiba....

because he's been in tbs
for a serious violent incident.

And he's seen as really
a really ruthless sod.

Just really rock solid.

COURTNEY: His criminal record shows
that the defendant has already had several...

has been irrevocably convicted
for acts of violence and possession of weapons.

He received long, unconditional prison sentences for this.
prison sentences.

And in the end he played a leading role in a lot
many cases.

He has played a leading role
played a leading role in directing
the liquidation on Pjotr.

In Diemen.

Then he played a role
in the cocaine business...

around the fish cutter in Urk.

His most spectacular case...

is the k*lling of the Iranian
activist in Almere...

who under another name
lived in Almere.

For that, he eventually
life imprisonment.

VO: Noffel was, among other things
convicted of two
attempted murders...

on the Amsterdam criminal Peter R.

He directed the gunmen...

but during the first attempt
it goes completely wrong.

That was an extremely clumsy
attempt,you might say.

There went a couple of
shooters on it...

who had
dressed up as police officers.

They then wanted to force Peter R.
to stop with stop signs...

but took the wrong turn....

and then you see that Noffel
in those intercepted chats...

rants and raves
against those executives
about that failed liquidation.

VO: Two days later, the hitters make
another attempt.

The well-known Amsterdam
criminal Peter R..

he was called in the environment
Pyotr...

who was parked here on May 5, 2015.
parked in a Vauxhall, a small SUV....

came from an appointment
and then was actually unexpectedly...

approached from behind by two
men with automatic weapons.

Those started sh**ting immediately.

NUMBER: And I saw on the side
of our apartment a man
with a balaclava on...

with a machine g*n
Running after someone.

Pjotr was behind the wheel here.
He was also hit...

but still managed
still managed to start his car....

and here actually in a blind panic
to drive onto the sidewalk.

Here in front of this flat, which is actually
as you see that too...

is quite narrow,yet to drive through.

And those gunmen
who kept running after him...

And they kept sh**ting at that car.

NEWS: How many bangs
did you hear?
-The first time about 6,7....

and then there was a break
and then there was.

JOHN: Pjotr drove on at full throttle,
pressed the gas pedal...

and who actually saw only ONE way out.

It couldn't go anywhere here,
because there were
cars parked here.

And he didn't manage to make that turn here
quickly make that turn.

That one had been so much
hit by those b*ll*ts...

that he actually kept on driving....

and then he ended up here
into the water.

And it sounds crazy, but that was
his salvation...

because he managed
out of that car...

despite the fact that he had a number
b*llet wounds in his body....

and could half hide
behind that car.

Well, that's what finally
proved to be his salvation....

because those gunmen...
It was broad daylight...

there were people walking here too....

People were obviously
alarmed by those shots....

so those shooters couldn't hang around here either
not stick around very long.

And they eventually ran
back to a getaway car
and took off.

Pjotr was eventually
helped by bystanders...

out of the water
and it turned out to be seriously injured...

and he was rushed
transferred to the hospital...

and there he survived this attack.

RIGHT: The sh**ting
has also been
been a violent event.

In the middle of the day, in their residential area
shot at random.

This ruthless
and life-threatening action...

has evoked feelings of fear
and insecurity....

with local residents
and many others in the community.

SASKIA: You see those criminal
organizations also consist
of multiple layers.

You have those who you
pulling the strings....

give the orders.
Then you have the controllers.

Well, Noffel was
probably one of them.

And you have those who implement it.

And those layers were not
necessarily all
in contact with each other.

They did a very good job of
separated from each other.

Yes, and no doubt, of course
to prevent all the lines...

automatically to the principals
would lead.

VO: Six months after the failed
attack on Pyotr R..

Naoufal R. is picked up by chance
in Dublin, Ireland.

The Kinahan g*ng is known
as a rock-hard...

global operating
drug organization from Ireland...

led first by Christy
and later by his son Daniel.

Also with a major
base in Dubai...

Money laundering in Dubai.

Also an important leg in Spain....

do business with English criminals,
with the mocromafia.

And with this mighty mafia clan
Noffel was in hiding.

So there are intimate ties with
international crime organizations.

VO: The Dutch authorities
are informed...

and Naoufal F.
will be surrendered to the Netherlands.

Intercepted PGP messages
show, according to Justice...

that Rico, Taghi and Noffel
were a team.

After the arrest of Noffel
Rico and Taghi send
send the following messages to each other.

I myself have the impression that perhaps
within the triumvirate Noffel....

had the least
in the milk....

but that Ridouan Taghi
and Rico the Chilean...

were in very
were in close contact with each other....

and also organized things together.
At least that's what it looks like now.

VO: Rico the Chilean remains
for police and justice
long under the radar.

But that will change in 2015 when
concrete information comes in....

that who wants to have a group of rivals
wants to be liquidated.

During 2015, the
investigation against Rico the Chilean
actually begin in earnest.

A tip comes in to the
TCI,Team Criminal Intelligence....

that Rico would be involved
preparing liquidations.

And he would even have made contact
made contact with hitters....

from abroad.

MICK: And then some serious
information comes in that Rico...

actually wanted a lot of people
wanted to get liquidated.

There was some kind of
quarrel within that group....

in the mocromafia, and he wanted to
eliminate his opponents.

He would also like to hire Yugoslavs to do the job.
to hire them to do the job.

And the police got information,
but just didn't have enough evidence.

They couldn't run a survey.
They then decided:
you know what...

'We're going to break the case down,'as
it's called,'approaching victims.

'Clearly letting us know: 'We know what
you're doing,get out.'

And so the case was broken.
And that was also the moment when
Rico disappeared and was gone.

VO: Because Rico R is without a trace....

the police are investigating people
from his organization...

and it works, because the detectives come
through one of Rico's henchmen...

out at a suspected company
in Oostzaan, North Holland.

The police were extremely
interested in Rico...

and then they started following people
in his community started following him.

And they then see someone
who is sort of the right hand
Rico would be.

Who drives around in a Volvo.

And they're going to follow that car
and it will take them to
different addresses.

And what turns out? Rico's family ...

operate a kind of
children's play center.

JumpingFun, with bouncy castles
and things like that.

VO: The company is registered in the name
of Rico's sister.

And then all the alarm bells
go off at the police...

because they suspect
that the company is being used....

as a cover for drug trafficking.

There are surveillance cameras
placed around the property...

to keep an
keep an eye on it.

They'll see cars coming and going
with men with big bags...

where suspected packages of
drugs or money in them.

And then the police
suddenly something strange.

Because if those cameras
hang there for a while....

then they find out that Rico's sister
and her partner...

seem to be getting some
to notice...

and even seem to make movements
indicating escape behavior.

Well, that's the moment
for the investigators to say:

'We're going to do raids now...'

because we want to avoid
that later on all the evidence
be made away with.'

Nice is that location
of JumpingFun in Oostzaan....

It is a beautiful combination
of on the one hand the delicious...

beautiful Dutch landscape
with the lovely windmills...

and the beautiful nature,
and at the same time there is this suspicion
of the massive cocaine smuggling.

And then there's a clap day
And then they also find there so....

tons of coke residue, 1.4 million
euro cash,hidden rooms...

and also papers that look
to some kind of bookkeeping....

which shows
that this drug business of Rico....

still turned over something like 40 million.

The amounts involved are
staggering amounts of money.

And so, of course, the action seems to be
to be a great success....

But in the end, the
final target Rico the
Chilean is still without a trace.

VO: In retrospect, the Justice Department believes it can
prove that Rico was, at the time...

was not only involved in
coke trade,but also liquidations.

This is evidenced by, among other things
PGP calls that were not intercepted until
were intercepted much later.

If you look at the PGP calls
then you actually see...

a totally different mentality
of Taghi on the one hand....

and Rico the Chilean
on the other side.

That's what the police are describing, too,
but you can also see that
in those PGP messages.

For example, at one point
a chat intercepted...

in which Taghi suggests that public prosecutor
of justice Koos Plooij
put to sleep.

Well, that's slang
for liquidate.

And then Rico the Chilean says
that they should be careful...

and that maybe that
not such a good idea.

Taghi wants blood, wants revenge
and wants to k*ll everyone...

wants to k*ll Koos Plooij
and everyone must die and revenge.

And Rico is much calmer.Who says:

"Joh,are you sure about that?

Almost a little like this: Oh boy,
is that wise?

It also didn't happen in the end,
but it does indicate something...

On the position of Rico the Chilean.

That wasn't an understudy
of Taghi,say.

VO: Of the trio, Naoufal
F. is in jail at the time....

but Taghi and Rico are on the run.

Taghi then, according to justice
the order to k*ll the criminal
Samir Erraghib to be k*lled.

Samir allegedly stole a batch of hashish
stolen...

and must be taken out of the way.

According to the prosecution
Rico R. is also involved in this case.

Here in IJsselstein...

a few hundred yards
from that residential area behind me....

there, on April 17, 2016, was
Samir Erraghib was liquidated.

This happened in a very
nasty and cruel way.

Actually in a way
that is unprecedented.

Next to Samir was his 7-year-old
daughter, in fact, was in the car.

The m*rder of Samir Erraghib
is actually one of those typical
mocromafia m*rder.

Because of the violence.
Shot dead in broad daylight....

for his home,
so his most secure environment...

in the presence of his child.

'I don't want to talk about it.'

'How come
you don't want to talk about it?

'Because I keep getting pictures
getting pictures of that crook.'

'And then I'm always startled
when I hear something.'

A girl, 7 years old at the time, who
gets into the car with her father....

and witnesses her father
being shot in front of her eyes.

Gunmen stepped up to that car
and fired, despite the fact...

that the girl was sitting next to her father
in the car...

a rain of b*ll*ts off on Samir.

The girl fled in a blind
panic into the apartment house...

To warn her mother.

The mother has come, has taken Samir
Samir to the hospital...

but he was already
already so badly injured....

and hit so many times by b*ll*ts
that he died in the hospital.

OFFICER: In broad daylight in a
residential area, in a parking lot
with flats all around.

Obviously planned,
prepared down to the last detail.

From preliminary searches, stolen cars...
and the purchase of weapons...

to the exact same clothes....

and with a high degree
cooperation.

That all points
to a liquidation...

a cold reckoning,
purely and simply aimed
on k*lling Samir Erraghib.

The perpetrators then made
a crucial mistake...

because they didn't prepare their getaway car
not prepared properly.

The getaway car, a BMW,
didn't start...

after which the perpetrators
had to flee on foot.

MICK: One of the gunmen running
away,into an allotment.

And who runs and tries to
end up hiding....

in a garden shed.

And the man from the garden shed
comes running.

To his surprise
he sees the sh**ter there...

With overalls on his.

JOHN: The person who owned that cottage
didn't trust that, of course.

He saw his clothes
and addressed him.

And then through here
that ditch...

here on this dike
ended up...

and then fled
further in that direction.

Immediately after the attempted liquidation...

there was, of course, immediately
great alarm.

While the men
are fleeing...

the police
out in full force.

They're here with an arrest team
with other surveillance cars...

and actually the whole
area here is cordoned off.

And the moment one of the
shooters comes running in here....

he's actually being assigned
by the owner of the garden shed....

who also recognized his clothing,
and the police team
comes running in here...

and actually knows how to
overpower him.

FILMER: And who is that man?
Does that one belong to him?
-He's in the little garden.

Hand put in the bag.

MICK: You also see on the footage
that he then also immediately...

bags around them,
so they can keep those g*nsh*t residue
can keep as evidence.

In the investigation
after the liquidation, the police found
a multitude of traces...

that eventually lead
to the shooters...

who also, in addition to the
witness statements...

the criminal evidence
completely rounded up.

The car that didn't start
was full of DNA traces...

but also at the garden shed
the police found gloves
and a balaclava...

on which DNA traces
were found to be from the sh**ter.

The evidence was perfectly round.

That they did not allow themselves to be
stopped by the presence
of his little daughter at that time....

indicates a degree of coldness
and brutality that is unimaginable.

The liquidation of Samir Erraghib
is therefore also one of the murders....

which Rico then consults with Taghi
consultations with Taghi.

They discuss shortly after the m*rder
that liquidation of him.

Talk about the getaway cars,
about the weapons...

So that's one of the murders where
is actually direct contact...

Between Taghi and Rico the Chilean.

VO: When Ridouan Taghi
during those PGP talks...

let Rico know
that Erraghib has been k*lled....

Rico responds rather exasperatedly.

It's very simple.If you look
at the PGP calls....

then there is clear interaction.

Taghi and Rico talk almost
just brotherly about each other.

'Are you Hermano,
then I am Sir.Hermano,Sir.'

There is very clear
very intense contact.

And over a longer period of time.

And the criminal investigation department has
long-standing indications of this as well.

So I definitely believe
that megatrio is there.

And it has also
always fascinated me:

Who is actually
ultimately the boss?

Taghi also doesn't seem the type
to tolerate a boss above him.

Noffel did again.

But is Rico the boss?
Or is it Taghi then?

Or is there someone else hanging above
who we might not even know?

And that is for me
still kind of hard....

but the fact is that he
really played an important role....

in this super cartel.

VO: It's important to know
that Rico has not yet been prosecuted....

for the liquidation of Erraghib
and the attempted m*rder of Peter R.

He is, however, suspected of leading
of a criminal organization
that carries out liquidations.

But in 2017, the justice system has no idea
where Rico the Chilean
is at the time.

The police are still hunting for him,
but to no avail.

It's like they're one step too late every time.
He's too smart.

And then there is the moment when they
seek close cooperation
with Chile and Dubai.

And they'll get a signal
from Chile...

that he is about to
going to Chile from Dubai.

And that's when the justice system
thinks: Now we're going to get him.

VO: Rico R, according to the justice department
the big man next to Ridouan Taghi....

would have fled to the
Santiago, the capital of millions.

We have a unique opportunity
to speak to those involved...

who tracked down Rico
and so I'm sending a team to Chile.

Special units of the Chilean
Police,the OS7 and GOPE....

then open the hunt for Rico R.

Commander Munoz deploys a large team
of undercover agents...

to observe Rico
once he lands in Chile.

Rico is captured by several
cameras at the airport.

Rico wants to stay
in the overpriced Hyatt Hotel...

in the center of Santiago.

He and his accomplice do not know
that they are being followed...

yet they are sharp
and observant.

The Chileans are waiting for a
arrest warrant from the Netherlands...

and until then have the arduous
task of keeping the observant Rico R.
in his sights.

And because they are dealing with a serious criminal
dealing with...

the Chilean
police established contact
with a special unit.

As it happens in America,
ONE big show.Hoppekee,
with your full head.

In Amsterdam-Zuid this morning
a severed head was found...

On the doorstep of a bong cafe.

That passerby is actually
just going to work...

and he sees here on the sidewalk
a severed head.