This is apparent from recent official reports, which were added to the Marengo file last week. The PGP phone was found two years ago in the cell of Razzouki, who had been tracked down and arrested in Colombia.
The Netherlands Forensic Institute only recently managed to crack the telephone and came across a conversation between Razzouki and a co-defendant about an alleged collaboration between Van den Heuvel and key witness Nabil B.
Razzouki then says in a conversation about Van den Heuvel: “That’s why that dog John has to pay. He thinks he is safe now. I hope he moves more (…). Yes brother, really a dirty dog but you just have to work hard. I hope I’ll be here for a few years so we can hunt well because it’s been quiet for too long.”
Van den Heuvel was informed last week by the police and the Public Prosecution Service about the conversation, which according to the judiciary may indicate that Razzouki is hinting at an assassination attempt with ‘that John must pay’. Razzouki apparently hoped to stay in Colombia even longer so that he could better ‘hunt’ for Van den Heuvel from there.
‘Illegal cell activities’
Van den Heuvel about the threatening messages: “This does not surprise me. It is yet another proof that some suspects in the Marengo case also continue to engage in illegal activities from prison. I am happy with the good protection by the DKDB, but unfortunately it is not only possible from Colombia but also from Dutch prisons to continue criminal activities. Incidentally, it is complete nonsense that I worked with Nabil B. or with an ‘alliance’. It just reflects the paranoid and criminal mindset of some criminals.”
De Telegraaf revealed in September 2020 that the PGP telephones and two regular devices had been found in Razzouki’s Colombian cell shortly before. The main suspect in the Marengo trial was extradited to the Netherlands in December 2021. Razzouki was arrested on February 7, 2020 after a manhunt by a special team of the Colombian police. Undercover agents found him after a months-long operation at a shelter in Colombia’s cocaine capital Medellín.
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After his surrender, Razzouki was placed in the Extra Secure Institution in Vught. He still resides there. Many more leaders of the mocromafia are now imprisoned in Vught. One of them is Ridouan Taghi, who is suspected by the Public Prosecution Service of plotting serious crimes and an escape from the EBI. He communicated with a cousin, who is a lawyer. For example, the two were able to communicate with each other for months because conversations between a lawyer and a client may not be overheard.