In its 2020 report published last Tuesday, the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) reports a significant drop in smuggling. While in 2019, 585 million DH of goods were seized, the customs services recorded 242 MDH in 2020.
During the first three weeks of the month of Ramadan, 60 offenses were recorded on the market in the Marrakech-Safi region. These violations on prices and the quality of food products were observed by control commissions from the Division of Economic Affairs and Coordination (DAEC) of the wilaya of the area.
All judicial authorities must strictly engage in the fight against the illegal sale of medicines and non-medicinal pharmaceutical products. This is what the Attorney General of the King at the Court of Cassation, President of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, El Hassan Daki, invites them to do.
Agricultural organizations in Spain have filed several complaints asking the authorities to sanction the Almería companies that fraudulently relabel Moroccan horticultural products such as tomatoes, watermelons or cucumbers. Since then, no sanctions have been imposed.
The National Brigade of the Judicial Police and the police prefecture services of Meknès and Fès carried out an operation on Wednesday that led to the arrest of 10 people aged between 28 and 56. They would be involved in a criminal network active in the counterfeiting of packaging used for expired food and cleaning products.
A study carried out a year ago by the Swiss NGO Public Eye had stated that the cigarettes sold and consumed in Morocco are more harmful than those sold in Europe. Aware of this, the government is trying to better regulate the sector.
The toxicity of cigarettes sold in Morocco is unsuspected. An analysis conducted by Public Watch has proven that tobacco companies sell more toxic cigarettes in some emerging countries, including the Kingdom.
The closure of Morocco’s borders has exposed the role of the black market in the north of the country. It is a provider of unsuspected jobs and fortunes.
Since September 4, as part of the "Clean Hands" operation, the judicial police are facing behaviors that could harm public health in the Kingdom. The facts could be reclassified as criminal.
Following the closure of several venues and the withdrawal of alcohol licenses, professionals in the field, through the Alliance of Free Trade Unions, organized a sit-in this Friday, September 25, starting at 10 a.m., in front of the Wilaya of the Casablanca-Settat region.
A joint security commission carried out searches in several classified restaurants and alcohol depots in Marrakech. The harvest is striking.
The son of a former Minister of Human Rights, involved in a network of traffic in protective masks and counterfeiting of trademarks, surrendered on his own to the police services of Casablanca .