02x05 - Internationaal cokekartel

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It does indicate something about
the position of Rico the Chilean....

that wasn't an understudy
of Taghi, so to speak.

Actually, there's no one inside
that whole Mocro mafia about who....

is talked about with as much disgust
as it is about Noffel.

Very different type from Rico the Chilean.

The perpetrators then made a crucial
mistake, because they didn't prepare their getaway car
not properly prepared.

Shot dead in broad daylight
in front of his house, his most safe
environment, in front of his child.

A cold-blooded reckoning aimed purely
on k*lling Samir Erraghib.

A tip comes in that Rico would be
Rico would be involved in preparing
of liquidations.

GEKNAL

SCREAMING

From the moment Rico arrives at
Chile's airport arrives...

he's being watched by
surveillance teams...

from the Chilean police.

They don't let him out of their sight
out of their sight.

You might ask, why isn't he
arrested right away...

the moment he lands in Chile?

That has mainly to do with the fact
that actually everyone is surprised...

that Rico just
traveling on his own passport.

And that also means that there has to be quick and
much consultation must take place....

between the authorities in Chile
and the police in the Netherlands...

because there should be an international
warrant...

be enacted
and that takes some time.

That has the advantage
that the observation teams...

Rico a little longer
and be able to see...

what he is doing in Chile
is doing in Chile.

But that also has the danger
that observation teams break down....

that Rico, who is pretty sharp
might get the hang of it....

that he is followed by the police
and goes on the run.

Well, that fortunately
in the end, it doesn't.

The police continue to follow him,
seeing at one point...

that his girlfriend from Colombia
happens to...

and he spends a number of moments
spent with it.

They also see him in the presence of
an accomplice who came into the picture in a previous
investigation has come into view...

and from whom the police have already seized more than 'n
million seized.

And they see that Rico does
frequent contact...

with some of the leading figures
from the Chilean drug mafia.

So that information is actually
collected those days as well.

And then eventually
that warrant comes in...

and the police can take action
proceed...

but until the moment of the arrest
they just keep following him.

First of all, I am very grateful to you
for having us in this way...

want to speak to. It's my understanding
that you have made your own images...

of observations, among other things,
also of his arrest...

the way Rico R.
moved in Chile.

Could I see those images sometime?

VO: After a week of observation the official request comes from
Netherlands the official request...

To arrest Rico R.

It is then October 20, 2017...

more than two years before the arrest
of Ridouan Taghi.

The Chileans decide to arrest Rico
Rico at the hotel where he is staying.

Undercover agents see
that in the morning he walks with suitcases
to his car.

It seems
he wants to leave.

Then you see him lying on
the ground and a moment later he is...

taken away with countless journalists
as happens in America...

ONE big show, hopscotch, with your
full head and ready, ONE show.

And yes, end Rico.

Rico had several different
passports and it's actually...

in retrospect very stupid that he
just using his own passport....

from Brazil to Chile, because
so he could be traced very easily
...

while he had so many other
false passports.

That arrest is widely
pictured.

You see him there being taken away by police officers
being taken away...

...while he, with his head bowed...
letting himself be pushed forward...

and was then
more or less exhibited....

for the cameras
of the assembled media.

A perp walk is what they call
that in those countries.

Um, we don't know it like that,
but that's what they do.

I remember when I saw the footage
of Rico's arrest, I thought:

Well things are moving fast.
Noffel had been picked up...

then Rico, that left
only ONE person left...

that was Ridouan Taghi.

VO: In December 2019, in Dubai
Taghi is also arrested.

The top of the Dutch
Mocro mafia is thus getting quite a few
blows to endure.

VO: After Rico's arrest
extradition proceedings await him.

Those lawsuits eventually last
several months and are heavily
attended by Chilean media.

Yes, the delivery can sometimes take
take a very long time.

This actually went quite quickly.
He was arrested at the end of 2017.

It was delivered in early 2018.

Well, that's not
not so bad at all...

if you compare that to Razzouki
who was arrested in Colombia...

And who is still sitting there.

Yeah, we're still waiting
of this fellow prime suspect....

in the Marengo trial,
but he is still in Colombia.

Here behind me, in the prison
in Vught...

Rico and Taghi have been
locked up for some time now.

And those are
in the extra secure facility.

that's actually a prison
within the prison...

completely insulated...

where they are therefore not allowed to have any contact also
with each other.

And also Noffel has been in prison for a
long time in prison.

We've seen him before
that he had close ties...

with an Irish drug organization...

and that the Dutch police
was tipped off about this.

And we see that it's actually all
is about the trafficking of cocaine.

The Mocro mafia had close contacts in that
of that trade close contacts....

with international
drug organizations...

as that Irish organization
and, for example, the mafia.

And about the international trade
in cocaine, the Dutch
police...

a very interesting tip
from the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration DEA.

The Dutch police received a tip
from the DEA...

that there would be a meeting
or that all sorts of top criminals...

the highest segment
of the European coke mafia....

would meet in a super-deluxe
hotel in Dubai...

a hotel where rooms cost between


Priory beaches,
a magnificent palace.

Dubai has long been a haven
for major criminals.

They could hide there
and go about their business undisturbed....

they could spend their money there.

But it was also very easy
to manage their organization....

without being inconvenienced
from the police and the courts.

The DEA was super well-informed.

They apparently had infiltrators
in the hotel and there's also...

image surfaced of those leaders.

And that was actually
for Holland the proof...

that at the very highest level
was some kind of coke cartel....

where these gentlemen and also Rico
played leading roles in.

VO: According to the DEA, these
these top international criminals...

The coke trade from Dubai.

That's where they meet
and make arrangements....

about the thousands of kilos of coke
being shipped to Europe.

That Rico was there in Dubai,
is also evident from footage...

that was found on his phone.

There's a picture of him with an Italian mobster...
of the Italian mafia...

Raffaele Imperiale.

Raffaele Imperiale
is a very interesting figure.

He was an executive
within the Camorra.

But this Raffaele Imperiale also had
an important base in Amsterdam.

He had a coffee shop here
and we remember him...

Of the spectacular Van Gogh robbery.

No one thought they would ever be
would be found.

Two paintings by Vincent
van Gogh that were painted 14 years ago...

from the Van Gogh Museum
in Amsterdam were stolen.

But the works of art, which are worth millions
worth, are justified.

The paintings were found in Italy
during a raid...

with a big mob boss.

Rico The Chilean, according to
Justice Department intensive contact...

With Raffaele Imperiale.

Intercepted PGP messages would
reveal that Rico R. and Imperial...

even plotting a m*rder.

To cite one example
five messages were intercepted...

in which the order is given
to k*ll someone in Dubai.

It is said:
The ninjas are ready.

It has to be done like this,
with a knife, that way...

so that it doesn't seem
that this and that is happening.

So there's really clear talk
about a k*lling order.

VO: To know more
About this Raffaele Imperiale...

and the Italian mafia organization
Camorra...

I travel to Italy,
where I meet Michele del Prete...

the investigating judge who is fighting against
this ruthless mafia clan.

Now they work a lot together
with Dutch criminals.

What can you say
about that collaboration?

VO: The Camorra is a global
leading in the field of
drug trafficking.

I travel on to Naples, the
epicenter of this mafia clan....

and also the home of
Camorra chief Raffaele Imperiale.

One of the Camorra's leaders
is Raffaele Imperiale.

We also know him in the Netherlands.
What role does he play in this Camorra?

Well in the Netherlands there is now the
strong suspicion among police and OM...

that Raffaele Imperiale in Dubai has done business
has done business with Ridouan Taghi....

but also with Rico the Chilean,
what do you know about that?

Is it known where he is at the moment
is, Raffaele Imperiale....

and what exactly is he
suspected of?

And how badly does justice
to have him?

VO: Behind the scenes,
Italian authorities hard...

to a possibility to get Imperiale
still be extradited.

Mone takes me to the districts
where Imperiale was active...

and that is not entirely
without danger.

VO: We drive further towards the outskirts
of Naples, where the most notorious neighborhood
of the city lies, Scampia.

This district is illustrative
for the problems that Naples has
with the mafia.

Scampia is completely in the hands
of the Camorra.

VO: For our safety, it is better
to stay in the car.

This neighborhood is full of crime
and hates people from outside.

Still, I see a chance to take a quick look at such a Vele
from the inside.

VO: The dire consequences
of the cokemafia are here in ONE
glance.

And then to know that Dutch
criminals together with the mafia....

from Naples hundreds of millions of euros
earning from the drug trade.

Rico R. has now been detained for almost three years
detained in the EBI in Vught.

During the trials, the Justice Department
keeps coming up with new details.

The prosecution is even linking Rico
to ONE of the fiercest cases....

in Dutch
crime history.

It's a rare lurid find.
In Amsterdam-Zuid this morning,...

found a severed head
outside the door of a bong cafe.

The cafe is a place where many men
came together who are
associated with the Mocro mafia.

On the night of March 7 to 8, 2016


in Amsterdam-Zuidoost
made a very nasty find.

There, in a car
a decapitated body is found.

And the police are actually still very much
with the investigation...

to the origin of the body
and identity...

as here a day later,
on March 9, 2016...

really by a passerby
a gruesome find is made.

That passerby just goes
to work and he walks here....

and who sees here
for this shisha lounge...

now it is home to another company,
but then there was a shisha lounge...

sees here on the sidewalk
a severed head lying there.

That, of course, causes him
an enormous shock...

Other passersby come to that.

Someone still has the presence
of mind to put a bucket...

over the head
To other passersby...

that horrible sight
take away.

I come outside, there was ONE of those plastic
thing stretched by a policewoman....

And I look like this, I think:
That looks like a head.

And the policewoman comes to me
and she says: It's also a head.

I say: f*ck you.

And only at a later stage
it becomes clear that that head...

can be linked to the body
that previously...

in Amsterdam Zuidoost
is found.

And while the police here are busy
busy with technical investigations...

interviewing witnesses, trying to track down
trying to follow up all kinds of leads...

the shock in society is
actually enormous.

It is the first time in the Netherlands
that in such a gruesome way...

becomes clear
what kind of underworld w*r...

is taking place
in Amsterdam and the surrounding area.

I had the idea that the face
was facing that case.

Really a warning.

Soon the police
have access to camera footage...

and it shows
how unimaginably cold-blooded

the perpetrator finally arrives here
that morning...

with a shopping bag
which then contains that head.

He comes running in here
and gets down on his knees here....

and he actually takes out of that
bag the head of the victim.

And then he actually spins it
in such a way that the face...

on the head actually
towards that shisha lounge...

is laid down or put down.

And the police will see that as nothing more
than a very clear signal...

a warning signal to those
who come here in the shisha lounge.

And these are members or leaders
of the Mocro mafia.

Then in the end we see
when the head here...

and of course it all happens
in a few seconds...

the head is laid down,
we'll see him get back up on his feet...

and then he actually goes off at
a trot relatively quietly.

VO: According to the justice department, Rico and
Noffel know more about this horrific case.

PGP messages have been intercepted....

in which Rico and Noffel refer
to this m*rder.

For example, Noffel expresses his frustration that the
beheading of Nabil Amzieb...

made little impression
on a group of rivals.

And is Rico talking
about the shisha lounge Fayrouz....

where once before
someone has been warned.

According to the Justice Department, they are referring
to the beheading.

Rico has to appear in court every three months
appear in court.

According to the Justice Department, it is clear
that Rico is involved in several
m*rder cases.

Only yes, the annoying thing is....

the prosecution thinks they have all kinds of
indications for that....

but I can't really
really prosecute him for that yet....

because at the time he was
extradited by Chile....

on suspicion
of drug trafficking...

and leading a criminal
organization that laundered money....

but not on the basis of killings,
Chile has to give separate permission
for that.

So the prosecution has decided
to prosecute him first now....

for drug trafficking and for money laundering and
later launching a second case....

which is about concrete liquidations.

Well, based on what's out there now,
I find the evidence, for example...

against Ridouan Taghi many times bigger
and stronger than Rico.

The crown witness for example....

actually makes up half
of the evidence against Taghi....

and there are almost no, or hardly any
important statements...

of the crown witness, so you have
especially those PGP calls.

And I also think that Rico is absolutely
without a doubt...

is the smartest of them all.

But I think that, from a technical point of view
will still be quite tricky.

VO: Rico R. has a hard time defending himself
defend himself against the allegations by the
Justice, at least he thinks so himself.

His lawyer Leon van Kleef
denounces the course of events.

About my client quite a bit has been
written and done.

And not only in the Netherlands,
but also abroad.

The Dutch OM
has been working abroad...

said things about my client
that play no part in this process....

zero, as far as I'm concerned.

That he is known in murders in
the Mocro mafia and things like that....

while seeking extradition for
money laundering and criminal organization....

where m*rder wasn't actually a theme in
was, so there's a tension there.

My client denies leadership...

and management in the context
of an organization...

and my client has denied involvement
in liquidations.

And again...

the debris
which the prosecution...

from the far reaches of PGP's erased
memories....

you can find a story of that.

But whether it's a story ,
is another.

It's actually at this stage
difficult to say....

whether the justice system has a very hard case
against Rico the Chilean.

Of course, the OM itself thinks so.

Which, in any case, provides a tremendous wealth
of evidence....

are those decrypted messages from
those pretty good privacy phones.

Criminals have spent years
unspoiled...

exchanged all kinds of information
with each other about attacks...

liquidations, about drug transports.

You name it
or they shared it with each other....

on the assumption
that the Justice Department couldn't read that.

And now justice can.

And yes, Justice says: We can
based on those chats...

really put forth a tremendous amount of evidence
against Rico the Chilean.

We have a hard case.

And if you look at the balance sheet now,
Ridouan Taghi inside...

Said Razzouki within...

about 30 people from the
organizations of these people.

Then of course it's the
fear scenario for justice....

that Rico, perhaps
the most important headline...

will soon be released
after a fairly short prison sentence....

and again will be able to build some
build up or disappear again.

And, of course, that's not what the justice system wants.

My client has been placed in Chile in the
maximo seguridad placed....

and from there rolled into the EBI
and never came out again.

He is over a period of time
completely isolated.

After that he was allowed limited contact with
ONE or two other persons.

Visit behind glass,
everything is bugged...

um, your post is being monitored....

so it's kind of strict.

Now, in coronation times you might say
that normal bayous...

almost have such a regime.

But normally an EBI placement is
is not something...

what you would want to do to someone
in my opinion.

VO: So far, Rico himself has
only wanted to explain something...

about money laundering
and about murders he is silent.

During ONE of the final hearings
of the so-called Orinus case...

the prosecution came forward with new information
that would show...

that Rico didn't just talk to
the brass about murders...

but also with the lower level.

Whether the prosecution at the m*rder trials
against Rico...

will also involve the beheading of Nabil Amzieb
will involve, is still unclear.

Chile has to
give permission first....

to also prosecute Rico for murders
in the Netherlands.

If it comes to that, then
that m*rder trial called Orinus 2.

Also for all the other names
who are in the hunt for the Mocro mafia....

were discussed, it applies that they
are still only suspects.

That means they may have
have the appearance against them....

but should be presumed innocent
until proven otherwise...

deemed proven by judges.

Until that happens, in the
lawsuits Marengo, Eres...

and Orinus are still engaged in fierce
battles will be fought...

between the lawyers
and the Prosecutor's Office.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department continues to hunt down
on members of the Mocro mafia....

among other things, by seeking
of new witnesses...

and further analyze millions of
intercepted PGP calls.

We crime reporters continue
the hunt for the Mocro mafia....

of course for you to follow.