Due to a mistake, the leader of the drug group that threatened to kill the daughter of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands escaped

When King William of Holland thanked, a few days ago, the kings of Spain for having taken refuge in Madrid last year for his daughter Amalia, the heir to the throne, is very likely the leader of the drug gang that threatened to kill the first-born daughter of William of Orange and Máxima Zorreguieta, the Argentine who became queen, was already a fugitive.

Karim Bouyakhrichan He is the boss of the feared Mocro Maffia, a criminal organization of Moroccan origin that operates mainly in the Netherlands. He had been arrested in December of last year in Marbella, Andalusia, the scene where the gang established some of its most productive branches.

Inexplicably, the Provincial Court of Malaga freed himwith precautionary measures, while the National Court processed the extradition request requested by Holland.

Today no one knows where Bouyakhrichan is, who everyone knows as Taxi. It was of no use that the Provincial Court of Malaga took away his passport, imposed a bail of 50 thousand euros and required him to appear before the Court every 15 days, restrictions with which Taxi was obedient at first.

But the last time he signed at the courthouse was April 1. Since then, His whereabouts are unknown.

Spain had launched an investigation in 2018 into the organization of Maghreb origin led by Taxi. He had indications that Mocro Maffia operated on the Costa del Sol, as that area is known. strip of Andalusian beaches and ports whose reference point is Malaga.

Additionally, in 2014, Taxi’s brother, Samir Bouyakhrichan, He had been gunned down in a beach bar early in the morning in August, while he was crowning an evening of partying with other drug lords.

Samir was 35 years old and led Mocro Maffia with a structure inspired by the Italian mafia: a network of family clans that support and protect each other.

The soul of mega parties in Dubai, Amsterdam, Medellín or Marbella The leader of the clan was Samir, whose flashy and ostentatious lifestyle made him an easy target for his rivals.

Karim, on the other hand, always preferred move in the shadows. He inherited the leadership of the organization and, with a low profile, strengthened the businesses, above all, laundering the millions of euros that he collected from drugs in real estate investments, restaurants and car dealerships.

He strengthened the presence of his clan in Malaga, Marbella, Barcelona and Melilla, from where his parents and sisters fled when they learned of his arrest.

Karim cleverly managed drug landings in the Dutch ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. He would have thus laundered some six million euros from drug trafficking.

At the time of his arrest, 172 properties were blockedespecially the mansions in Marbella – valued at more than 50 million euros – and they seized 178 bank accounts among which three million more were distributed.

When the National Police arrested Karim Bouyakhrichan in Marbella, the Ministry of the Interior defined him as “the most wanted and dangerous criminal in the Netherlands.”

Mocro Maffia’s threats towards the heir princess to the throne of Holland – also launched towards the current acting prime minister, Mark Rutte – did not make her parents doubt that, with a very low profile, they moved Amalia to Madrid, where Kings Felipe and Letizia “sponsored” her.

Armored and very well guarded, Amalia, 20 years old, continued her studies in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics that she was studying at the University of Amsterdam from a distance.

In January 2023, Máxima visited her. And although she tried to camouflage herself with glasses and a wool hat, the gossip magazines caught her walking with Amalia and her dog Mambo along Madrid’s Golden Mile, as the heart of the Salamanca neighborhood, the most pituco, is known. of the Spanish capital.

“I’ll be honest: I’m still having a very hard time. “I miss student life, walking down the street, entering a store without problems… and I hope things change as soon as possible,” confessed the heir to the Dutch throne during an official visit she made with her parents to the Caribbean in February. from last year.

Amalia speaks Spanish very well. Her mother, Queen Máxima, never stopped speaking “in Argentine” to her or her sisters, Alexia and Ariane.

Máxima was born in Buenos Aires in 1971 and met the then Prince William during the April Fair in Seville in 1999. They married three years later.

This weekend the first season of a series about his life premiered in Holland.

About 700 thousand people saw it and it had good reviews. Except skin to skin scenes that the Argentine actress Delfina Chaves and the Dutch actor Martijn Lakemeier perform under the sheets: the Dutch do not approve of them and would have preferred them to be avoided.

The kings of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia, visited the Netherlands last week. It was a three-day official visit. Between April 16 and 18, Spaniards and Dutch celebrated the harmony and complicity between the two monarchies that was reflected in the warmth of the kings, who even signed a graffiti together at the STRAAT street art museum.

It was, however, during last night’s gala dinner at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam – the city’s former City Hall and the most prestigious 17th-century building in the Dutch capital – that King William thanked the shelter that the Spanish monarchs and their country gave to the heiress: “It was a moving test of friendship in a difficult period,” said Guillermo de Orange.

And he added: “My most sincere thanks to their majesties and to all those who collaborated in that effort.”

The national anthems of Spain and the Netherlands sounded, they raised their glasses and toasted, without knowing it, to a serenity that, with Karim Bouyakhrichan on the run, is threatened again.