Kinahan ally Ridouan Tahgi’s cousin jailed for cocaine offences after losing €800k shipment

Taghi is regarded as the head of the Dutch-Moroccan drug gang known as the Mocro Mafia, who control a large section of Europe’s cocaine trade.

He is a close associate of Daniel Kinahan and they are believed to have worked together to source cocaine shipments from South America.

Taghi and 16 accomplices were convicted of six murders in a mass trial codenamed Marengo in the Netherlands in February.

Taghi was acquitted of one of the killings, but handed a life sentence for the rest, concluding the years-long case.

Younger members of Taghi’s family also became embroiled in the family business.

Now Anouar Taghi (30) has been sentenced to eight months in prison for cocaine trafficking by a court in Zwolle, Netherlands, on Monday.

The Public Prosecution Service have demanded six years in prison for the cousin.

The investigation revolved around a shipment of 22.34 kilos of cocaine that was intercepted in the port of Antwerp on December 28, 2021.

On January 6, 2022, Anouar Taghi texted a niece that he “lost €800,000” that day.

According to cops, this corresponded to the wholesale price of the shipment.

Because the court considers some claims unproven and Anouar Taghi was previously sent down 26 years over a plot to kill a lawyer, the sentence of eight months is considered a light addition.

The suspect had not previously been convicted of drug offenses.

Anouar Taghi was sentenced to 26 years in March over the horrific street execution of legal expert, Derk Wiersum.

Wiersum was the lawyer for Nabil B., a key witness in the Marengo trial.

Taghi was the leader of the crew involved in the preparation for the assassination; stealing cars and assaulting people.

Despite an appeal, the young man’s conviction was upheld.

The crew were recorded carrying out reconnaissance in the Wiersum area with one of the stolen cars used in the hit; a white van.

In the morning on 18 September 2019 at 7:40 a.m. local time, Wiersum left his home in the Imstenrade in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Buitenveldert to go to work by car.

When Wiersum sat down in front of the steering wheel, a man dressed in black, appeared on the driver side. The man tried to shoot twice at Wiersum, but the clip jammed.

The shooter ran away and Wiersum went after him. According to a witness, who was 15 meters from the murder, Wiersum and the gunman had an argument near Wiersum's car.

The witness heard Wiersum say words like "piss off" and "goddamnit." The shooter shot again at Wiersum and hit him ten times in the head, neck and upper body.

Wiersum died at the scene. The hitman fled and escaped in the white Opel Combo. A second person was waiting in the getaway car.

Taghi’s phone was tapped in the aftermath and he gave the game away to cops listening in.

Eight other gangsters were convicted over the horrific daylight murder, and all are appealing.