A third Taghi lawyer arrested for passing on criminal kingpin's messages
The police arrested a 36-year-old lawyer Vito Shukrula representing Ridouan Taghi on Thursday on suspicion of enabling the man to continue running his criminal organization by passing on his messages. This is the third legal representative of Taghi to be arrested for participating in his criminal organization in this way. One has already been convicted and sentenced to prison. The case against the second, Inez Weski, is still ongoing and had a preliminary hearing in court today.

The police arrested the latest lawyer while he was visiting Taghi in the high-security prison in Vught, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) announced. He was remanded into custody after his arrest. “The public prosecutor has imposed all restrictions on him, which means that he is only allowed ot have contact with his own lawyer.