Mob boss Ross McGill offered chance at new life in Morocco by infamous Mocro cartel boss

The head of the Tamo Junto (TMJ) gang has been

04:30, 22 Oct 2025Updated 10:53, 22 Oct 2025

Ross McGill offered chance at new life in Morocco by infamous Mocro cartel boss

Gangland kingpin Ross McGill has been offered a new life in Morocco by the infamous Mocro Mafia.

McGill, 31, was released from a Dubai hell-hole jail last month after he was banged up for twelve days alongside Steven Lyons, 44, Stephen ‘Jimmy’ Jamieson, 42, and Steven Larwood, 42, while they were quizzed by authorities over their connections to organised crime.

Officials booted the ex-Union Bears boss out of the United Arab Emirates and told him never to return.

An underworld source said McGill is now hiding out in a secret bolthole as he makes plans to relocate.

The mobster is now considering sanctuary in Morocco after becoming close friends with the sons of brutal Moroccan-Dutch crime boss Ridouan Taghi.

Taghi, 47, was described as “a well-oiled killing machine” when he was caged for life last year over a campaign of murders and attempted murders.

Ridouan Taghi.(Image: Collect)

The jailed monster was a close associate of the infamous Irish Kinahan cartel, who have close links to Scotland’s Lyons crime clan.

McGill became pals with Taghi’s sons Faissal and Adil while the gangsters were living it up in Dubai.

The source said: “Nobody knows where McGill is right now and he is taking his time to plan his next move after getting a bit of a fright when he was lifted in Dubai.

“He has a lot of criminal connections in Brazil that James ‘The Don’ White put him in touch with, so most people thought he would go there but he is good pals with Ridouan Taghi’s sons and one of them has been on the phone offering him help.

“Faissal was extradited to the Netherlands when his dad was jailed, but his other boy Adil vanished and is offered McGill refuge in Morocco.

“Ross is thinking it over. He would need to lie low over there and wouldn’t be getting to live the opulent lifestyle he did in Dubai, so he will be taking that into consideration.”

James ‘The Don’ White.

The source said McGill’s gang war in Scotland with Mark Richardson over a stash of stolen cocaine is the least of his worries at the moment.

He added: “This war, and McGill’s entire criminal enterprise, has been put on hold until he finds somewhere to live.

“His enemies in Scotland will be sleeping a little easier for now, but he won’t be out of the picture forever.

“He will be planning everything out methodically and deciding on finding a base somewhere the authorities won’t come after him for everything he has caused back at home.”

McGill may relocate to Morocco (Image: Getty)

The Record revealed in April how McGill’s friendship with Taghi’s sons offered him the opportunity to work with some of the biggest drug cartels in the world to “flood every area in Scotland with cocaine.”

At the time, a source told us: “McGill has been selling kilos of coke like it is going out of fashion.

“He works with the biggest cartels in the world. There are a lot of Moroccans in Dubai that he is getting closer with and these guys have tentacles all across the world.”

McGill fled Scotland and moved to Spain in 2022 after fearing he was about to be jailed when French cops broke into an encrypted criminal phone network used for drug dealing.

McGill in Marbella after moving to Spain in 2022. (Image: UGC)

He was on the move again at the end of the following year when he moved to Dubai in fear that he was about to be arrested on a European arrest warrant.

He launched a bloody war on the streets of Scotland earlier this year after hoods working for Edinburgh cocaine boss Mark Richardson bought £500k worth of cocaine from him using fake bank notes.

McGill’s Tamo Junto (TMJ) gang have since been targeting individuals and properties in the capital linked to Richardson and his cronies in a series of terrifying firebombing and shooting attacks.

The thugs have also targeted addresses linked to the notorious Daniel clan in Glasgow over their association with Richardson.

Head of the Lyons crime family, Steven Lyons, is understood to have been providing McGill’s TMJ mob with information about the movements of Richardson’s gang and rival clan the Daniel family.

His brother Eddie and key lieutenant Ross Monaghan were gunned down in a brutal execution in Spain on May 31 but Scots cops insist the shootings are not linked to the TMJ turf war.

So far 57 people have been arrested by Police Scotland under their Operation Portaledge probe into the war.