This is a non-trivial case initiated by what the judicial and police authorities consider to be one of the most powerful French drug traffickers. According to our information, 43-year-old Moufide Bouchibi, alias “Mouf”, “Mof” or “the Parisian”, decided to take legal action after being sentenced to eighteen years in prison – accompanied by a two-thirds security period – in February 2022, by the Bordeaux (Gironde) Court of Appeal. A penalty to which fines amounting to almost 6 million euros were added.
This green gold baron was arrested in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) in March 2021 after more than ten years on the run around the world and has been imprisoned in the Nancy-Maxéville penitentiary (Meurthe-et-Moselle) since his return to France. . His lawyers Mes Keren Saffar, Thomas Bidnic, Amar Bouaou and Raphaël Chiche filed two complaints against X to denounce the conditions under which he was sentenced.
In one of them, submitted to the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office at the beginning of August last year, his council points to the destruction by the police of the seals containing the wiretaps attributed to their client.
A case in which Moufide Bouchibi, a native of Orsay (Essonne), also called “Ghost”, was accused of importing at least three tons of cannabis resin from Morocco to France and via Spain between January and August 2011. During the course of the trial, the defendant had requests a copy of these seals “which substantiate the recordings of telephone conversations attributed to him but in which he consistently denied having participated, conversations which constituted the exclusive basis of the allegation and of the finding of guilt by the Court of Appeal.” He denounces his lawyers.
A destruction of seals “erroneously” ordered by the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office in November 2019 as part of a seal clearance plan, as recognized by the courts. An “error” through which his advice shows a “willingness to prevent the truth”. They also filed a cassation appeal.
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In their second complaint to the Dean of Investigating Judges of the Court of Mulhouse (Bas-Rhin), the same lawyers go even further, noting “several inconsistencies and notable differences between the existence and duration of the intercepted and transcribed communications and their characteristics, which are specified in the detailed billing of these lines”. They therefore filed legal action for “forgery of public writings and complicity in the falsification of public writings by persons in high authority” and “use of forgeries.”
A confidential communication from the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCPJ) states that this high-ranking representative of drug banditry in the housing estates is suspected of having amassed tens of millions of euros and has already been convicted eight times – including four times for drug trafficking as “the main supplier of hashish to the French market”. Justice, she presents him as “the trader closest to the producers” of the Moroccan Rif. A major “drug trafficker” who investigators from the Anti-Narcotics Office (Ofast, ex-OCRTIS) had difficulty finding for many years before locating him in Dubai.
Moufide Bouchibi was the victim of a kidnapping on a street in Casablanca, Morocco, in October 2009, before being abducted and tortured on a farm. He then had to repay debts totaling 650,000 euros that he had taken on from another human trafficker. Released after paying part of this sum, Moufide Bouchibi would then have decided to take revenge. He is suspected of ordering several reckonings in the Cherifian Kingdom. After this bloody episode, he would have sought refuge in Algeria and then covered his tracks by traveling regularly between Thailand, Turkey, Tanzania and Malaysia.
Before he found himself in the sun of the city of Dubai, which had become the El Dorado of French drug traffickers for several years.