In addition, judicial collaboration with the Emirates is difficult despite an extradition treaty, signed in December 2021. Brussels claims around twenty criminals. But the implementation of these extraditions is being done slowly. It remains hazardous and follows rules that are difficult to read from Europe.
Drug lord sentenced to 15 years in prison for importing cocaine
Nicknamed “El Patron”, Othman El Ballouti was one of the first Belgians to set sail for Dubai in 2016. He invested large sums of money there. In September, he was sentenced in absentia in Antwerp to seven years in prison for trafficking 840 kg of cocaine. Last month, the public prosecutor requested twenty years in prison against him in connection with the seizure at the port of Antwerp of 11 tonnes of cocaine in April 2021. The drug had been discovered after the cracking of the cocaine system a few weeks earlier. Sky ECC cryptophones.
Throughout his criminal career, Othman El Ballouti has not only made friends. On January 9, 2023, shortly after 6:00 p.m., rivals fired at the garage door of the house of one of his sisters in Merksem (Antwerp). The garage had been transformed into a living room. One of his nieces, aged 11, Firdaous, played there. She died after being shot in the chest.
