Antwerp/BorgerhoutMohamed A. was delivered this afternoon to the prison of the Begijnenstraat. The man was sentenced to 7 years in prison for importing cocaine. He was one of the members of a Moroccan family that ran several fishmongers, but which, according to the court, mainly served to launder drug profits.
Read more about the drug war in Antwerp in our file.
The local police confirmed this afternoon that Mohamed A. was arrested Friday morning. The arrest unit of the Antwerp police had tracked down Mohamed A. after an observation. The man was one of the main suspects in the investigation against the “Visboeren”. Three brothers from the A. family were sentenced in March 2020 to prison terms of 4 to 8 years for drug trafficking and money laundering. The Moroccan family, known in Antwerp for its fish shops, had laundered drug money for hundreds of thousands of euros, according to the court. They bought, among other things, a loft in the Hilton hotel in Tangier.
The case started to roll after the police placed hidden micros in the home of Mohamed Acr., the father-in-law of one of the brothers A. He had a lover from Spain with whom he liked to show off his illegal wealth. The man officially lived on benefits of 1,100 euros and lived in social housing on the Left Bank.
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Mohamed Acr. For example, his sweetheart told her how to smuggle money to Morocco: “Wrap large 500 euro bills in aluminum foil and sew it into your clothes”
In the recorded conversations, the investigators got a picture of the drug trade of the A. Bompa Mohamed Acr family. For example, his sweetheart told her how to smuggle money to Morocco: “Wrap large 500-euro bills in aluminum foil and sew it into your clothes.” He also showed his own fortune and showed his girlfriend a bag full of denominations of 100, 200 and 500 euros. “There are three rascals in this!”. According to the investigators, one rascal was code language for 100,000 euros.
Bompa Mohamed Acr. was sentenced to 8 years in prison. For the now arrested Mohamed A. is a prison sentence of 7 years open for drug trafficking and money laundering. He can now sit out in the Begijnenstraat.
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