The Civil Guard intercepted on Sunday, about 3 miles off the coast south of the El Pozuelo beach in the town of Albuñol (Granada), a boat transporting drugs hidden in gasoline cans. In total, three individuals of Moroccan nationality were arrested and 353 kilos of hashish were seized.
The Civil Guard has dismantled a hashish trafficking network from Morocco. The drugs were transported in planes and helicopters piloted by members of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel.
The gendarmes of Zaouiat Cheikh have managed to apprehend a dangerous drug trafficker who was actively wanted, thus putting an end to his long run. In total, 20 arrest warrants had been issued against him nationwide.
Elements of the police services at the Tanger Med port thwarted an attempt at international drug trafficking of one ton and 355 kg of cocaine from Brazil.
The Beninese authorities have just made a request for extradition to Morocco following the arrest of a Frenchman involved in a case of 145 kg of cocaine found in a container of sugar at the port of Cotonou.
Hanafi Aboukir, director of the Autonomous Water and Electricity Distribution Authority of Fez (RADEEF) is now in pre-trial detention. The elements of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police had arrested him on October 8 in flagrante delicto of corruption at the Majorelle café located a few dozen meters from the police station of the city.
The Civil Guard has arrested six people, including a Moroccan, in Ceuta and Malaga, accused of trafficking Moroccan migrants to Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar. They will be prosecuted for alleged crimes against the rights of foreign citizens and document forgery.
Seven people are the subject of an investigation opened on Tuesday by the regional brigade of the judicial police of Fez. They would be involved in a case of abortion practice, an act strictly punished by law in Morocco.
A French fugitive, suspected of being involved in a drug trafficking case, was arrested at Casablanca airport. Subject to an international arrest warrant issued by Benin, he was presented to the public prosecutor’s office pending his extradition.
Investigators from the Lille (Nord) research section have dismantled an illegal music download supermarket run from an apartment in Amiens (Somme). The administrator of the pirate site, a Franco-Moroccan, was arrested and will have to appear before the criminal court on February 2, 2022.
The investigating judge at the Casablanca Court of Appeal ordered the provisional detention of Saïd Zaïdi, member of the political bureau of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) and deputy of the Benslimane constituency, who was arrested on October 5 in flagrante delicto of corruption.
The elements of the RAID, the BRI of Rouen and the investigators of the departmental security service managed to dismantle a vast drug trafficking network with its rear base in Morocco, after two years of investigation. In total, nineteen people were arrested - including an elected official -, one million euros, fifteen kilos of heroin, vehicles and weapons were seized.