A Mauritanian traveler was intercepted at Casablanca’s Mohammed V airport with more than two million euros undeclared , hidden in three cartons of biscuits. He was about to board a flight to Dubai.
Italian authorities intercepted more than 100,000 euros undeclared at the port of Genoa. The funds, concealed in the luggage of travelers heading to Morocco, were notably hidden in a stuffed toy.
The services of the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) and the Foreign Exchange Office have uncovered a sophisticated network of illegal currency transfers abroad. More than 90 million dirhams would have been diverted abroad over the past three years.
The Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) seized 167 million dirhams in foreign currency in 2024, representing a 55% increase compared to 2023.
Associates of a fishing company have uncovered a vast network of currency trafficking and smuggling of prohibited fishing equipment, under the cover of maintenance contracts for fishing boats and ships abroad.
The exchange control services of the Office des Changes, in collaboration with the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration, are investigating suspicious commercial transactions targeting Moroccan and foreign companies based in the kingdom.
Following alerts from banking sources, the controllers of the National Financial Intelligence Authority investigated suspicious movements of a money laundering and illegal currency transfer network.
The Aïn Sebaâ court sentenced 14 people, including four women, to 34 years in prison and tens of millions of dirhams for illegal gold and foreign currency trafficking.
Exchange Office inspectors are investigating elected officials and real estate developers suspected of illegal transfer of funds abroad.
Control services of the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca, Rabat, and Marrakech-Menara have increased their vigilance in the face of multiplying attempts of illegal currency trafficking abroad, particularly to Turkey.
A currency trafficking of more than 85,000 euros was thwarted, on Thursday, by the customs services at the Tanger Med port.
A Moroccan residing abroad (MRE) was arrested on Wednesday by customs officers at the Tanger Med port. He was trying to bring an undeclared large sum of money, luxury clothing and contraband pharmaceutical products into the national territory.