‘Violent ringleaders’ cocaine gang on National Investigation List | Amsterdam
Justice has placed two Moroccan-Dutch criminal ‘leaders in the ongoing cocaine trade’ on the National Investigation List: Fahd El Kandoussi (38) and Mohammed Kajdouh (46). They are partners of the suspected Amsterdam drug lord Mounir K. (44), who is already incarcerated.
With their organization, the three would play a major role in the underground cocaine trade for years and have batches of double kilos of liquids. In addition, they would be responsible for gross violence, including shootings and a kidnapping.
According to the detective, they have ties with the criminal organizations of Ridouan Taghi and Richard R., ‘Rico de Chilean’. Fahd El Kandoussi (Wageningen, 1984) will be sentenced to twelve years in prison on 20 December 2022 paid for giving the order to shoot the alternative chalet at a holiday park in Tienhoven, near Utrecht, in which an innocent man of 60 was shot through his shoulder in June 2020 was shot. It was actually a crime from the Utrecht region whose girlfriend has a chalet next door.
Mohammed Najib Kajdouh (Tetouan, 1976) lived in Amsterdam for a long time.
In the picture after kidnapping
The search caught the eye of the network of Mounir K., Fahd El Kandoussi and Mohammed Kajdouh after a kidnapping in 2020. The organization is also linked to the shooting of a house in Waalwijk in Brabant on the night of 16 to 17 May 2020, in which a woman and a child, according to the police, ‘released with a fright’. There were at least six bullet holes in the facade of the building, the oldest still at least three.
On June 4 that year a car was shot at several times in Tilburg, and on June 7 in the same city a barber shop and the apartment above it. After the latest shooting, the police found a Kalashnikov on the escape route of the perpetrators.
Key evidence against El Kandoussi and Kajdouh comes from intercepted simultaneous PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) messages, which also form the basis of the files against Mounir K.
The latter came before the Amsterdam court for the first time in December 2022 on suspicion of ongoing cocaine trafficking, together with co-defendants Ismail B. (37) from Amsterdam and Said B. (39) from Oudenbosch in Brabant.
2903 kilograms of cocaine
Fahd El Kandoussi, Mohammed Kajdouh and Mounir K. are said to have signed a shipment of 2903 kilograms of cocaine in October 2020 at the port of Moin in Costa Rica, where the shipment was intercepted.
In television program Against Requested the police concluded on Tuesday evening that it was ‘remarkable’ that El Kandoussi and Kajdouh ‘raised quite silently within the drug world’, in which they would have collected millions of euros.
Both are acquiring real estate in both Dubai and Morocco, according to the investigative services, wherever they are kept or possibly currently.
El Kandoussi is believed to have been in Morocco recently, where he was briefly imprisoned. According to the police, it is “assumed that he still resides there”, although he may also be traveling to other countries under an assumed name, with a forged passport.
‘Very luxurious life’
Police and other judicial authorities investigate the two real estate of valuable possessions such as cars or large amounts of money in the Netherlands. Expensive bags have already been found during a house search, the police reported in the investigation program.
The suspects “lead a very luxurious life with their families,” a police spokesman said. “It is also one of our goals to take away from them their assets that they obtained illegally.”
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