In Scotland, a 33-year-old man found guilty in the murder case of the Dutch crime blogger Martin Kok. Kok, who himself had a long career in crime and then started a website with crime news, was shot dead in the parking lot of a sex club in Laren in 2016.
The convicted man, Christopher Hughes, is a member of a Scottish crime organization with links to Colombian drug cartels and the Italian mafia, among others. Hughes was also found guilty of involvement in criminal activity between 2013 and 2020. In January 2020, he was arrested at a hotel in Turin. arrested† Hughes will be told next month what punishment he will receive.
Hughes lured Kok into a trap in 2016, another shot him dead. The murder was a favor to a group of Moroccan criminals, an informant said at the trial. That group would be known as the Roccies.
Ridouan Taghi is suspected of having ordered the murder. Kok’s murder is part of the Marengo trial in which Taghi is on trial.
Kok was one of the first to post on his site butterfly crime Taghi, Naoufal ‘Noffel’ F. and Richard ‘Rico de Chileen’ R. as a “killing triumvirate”.
Murder attempt earlier in the day
In 2016, Kok and Hughes initially met at the Citizen M hotel in Amsterdam. Hughes wanted to talk there about advertising on the website butterfly crime, so he told Kok. Initially the plan was to shoot the blogger outside the hotel, but the firearm refused dutyHughes would later admit to an informant. Kok himself did not notice the murder attempt, according to images from a security camera.
The men then went to the Boccaccio sex club in Laren. Hughes paid for the evening and gave Kok cocaine. Afterwards, the men walked out. Hughes had tipped the shooter by phone that they were coming. He made a comment about a cat outside and started petting it. In the meantime, Kok walked to his car and was shot with eight bullets.
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