Karim Bouyakhrichan, considered one of the main leaders of the Mocro Maffia – the criminal gang that has threatened to kill Princess Amalia of the Netherlands – has fled Spain due to a lack of coordination between the National Court and the Provincial Court of Malaga, as Cadena Ser has advanced and La Vanguardia has confirmed. What at the beginning of the years was a police success has led to a judicial disaster in the period of three months.
The National Police arrested Bouyakhricha on January 24 for allegedly laundering six million euros from international drug trafficking. Along with him, Udef agents arrested five other people in the province of Malaga and in the autonomous city of Melilla. Bouyakhricha was the criminal “most wanted by the Dutch authorities,” as highlighted by the Ministry of the Interior when his arrest was made public.
The arrested person had allegedly been involved in numerous police investigations over recent years. In the operation, 75,000 euros in cash, jewelry valued at 10,000 euros and two firearms were seized. 173 real estate properties and three million euros from 148 bank accounts were also blocked.
Almost everything now remains a dead letter with Bouyakhricha’s escape. After his arrest and subsequent sending to provisional prison, the Netherlands began the procedures for his extradition, sending a European Arrest Warrant to the National Court. But in the meantime, Bouyakhricha’s defense appealed against his placement in provisional prison before the Provincial Court of Malaga. This court, in opposition to what was requested by the Prosecutor’s Office, ordered his release on March 18 on bail of 50,000 euros and withdrawal of his passport.
And he lost track. When the National Court contacted Bouyakhricha’s defense to go to Madrid, she reported that she had no knowledge of the gangster’s whereabouts.
