Dutch ‘organised crime boss’ who botched assassination attempt on Kinahan cartel-linked rival arrested by Spanish police

A DUTCH “organised crime boss” who Spanish police say botched an assassination attempt on a rival with “direct links” to the Kinahan cartel has been lifted by police Spain.

The 40-year-old fugitive, identified only as Noureddine H, was held in San Pedro de Alcantara near ­Marbella on the southern coast.

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Accused N.H. gives his prints at Spanish police stationCredit: Refer to Source – Free

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Moment the 40-year-old fugitive is arrested

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Naoufal ‘Belly’ Fassih

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Daniel Kinahan had forged links with Fassih

Spanish police revealed he was wanted in the Netherlands over the murder of Amsterdam DJ Djordy Latumahina, who is said to have been killed by mistake instead of “real target” Naoufal ‘Belly’ Fassih.

DJ Djordy was sitting in his Mini Cooper with his girlfriend, who was critically injured, and their then two-year-old ­daughter when they were targeted on ­October 8, 2016.

A bullet fired by the gunmen just missed the youngster.

Seven men were jailed over the shooting in May 2018, but the man Spanish police have arrested, described as the person ­suspected of planning the killing, had remained on the run.

KILL PLOT

Intended target Fassih’s links to the Kinahan cartel were laid bare in an official Spanish police statement about the arrest.

The Civil Guard said in their statement, identifying Fassih only by his initials: “The man who has been arrested in Spain is accused by the Dutch authorities of planning the murder of N.F. in Berlin.

“N.F. was the intended target of the ­incident that resulted in the DJ’s murder. The DJ lived in the same apartment block as the other man.

“The intended target of the shooting is currently in prison for a number of crimes. He is regarded by the Dutch authorities as one of the main leaders of organised crime in recent years, and is directly linked to the so-called Kinahan Irish mafia cartel, which tried to free N.F. during his transfer to court through the use of explosives.”

Fassih, a major European drugs kingpin, had forged close links with the Kinahan cartel as well as Daniel Kinahan’s business partner Richard ‘El Rico’ Riquelme Vega, who earlier this month received an 11-year sentence for leading a murder squad and money laundering.

During Kinahan’s association with jailed Chilean El Rico over the years, they also forged close links with major criminal Fassih — dubbed ‘Belly’ because of the size of his stomach — and Ridouan Taghi.

They were part of a “super cartel” that had the monopoly on all the major drug shipments coming into Europe.

But it is now in disarray after Fassih was caged for 18 years for attempted murder in the Netherlands.

CRIME BOSS DOWNFALL

And investigators at Kevin Street Garda Station — under Operation ­Thistle, which was run by Det Chief Supt Paul Cleary and his team — played a part in the Moroccan crime boss’ downfall when he was lifted in ­Kinahan’s Dublin flat in April 2016.

On that occasion, he had been on the run from Dutch authorities because of his gang’s involvement in a deadly drugs war that involved gangsters being beheaded.

He was later transferred to Holland before he received his 18-year sentence.And Taghi is awaiting trial on accusations of involvement in seven drug-related murders in the Netherlands following his own extradition from Dubai in December 2019.

And Spain’s Civil Guard today released footage of the arrest of the Dutch fugitive — who intended to strike on ‘Belly’.

Wearing a T-shirt and shorts, clips showed the moment his cuffs were taken off once he was at a police station before his fingerprints were taken to prove his identity ahead of being led to a prison cell.

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A spokesman for the force, whose operation to arrest the wanted Dutchman was code-named Operation 13MORTEL, said: “The Dutch authorities informed the Civil Guard that the detainee ordered the murder of a rival gang leader in Amsterdam.

“However, due to an error by the ­gunmen, they ended the life of a well-known city DJ while he was in a car park with his partner and daughter.”

The arrest is said to have been carried out on May 23, although the police only made it public yesterday.