
Moroccan Customs Seize Over 40,000 Euros in Currency Smuggling Attempt at Tanger Med Port
A currency trafficking of more than 40,000 euros was thwarted on Monday by the customs services at the port of Tanger Med.

A currency trafficking of more than 40,000 euros was thwarted on Monday by the customs services at the port of Tanger Med.

The French authorities have just issued a blacklist of Moroccan businessmen and politicians, accused of trafficking and money laundering in Morocco, via the port of Sète.

Significant sums of foreign currency, estimated at more than 25 million dirhams, were seized at the Bab Sebta crossing point on Wednesday, December 18, 2019.

A roadside check by the customs services at the Guerguarat border post thwarted a currency trafficking operation. To this end, a sum of 890,000 euros, in the possession of a Mauritanian national, was confiscated.

The increase in the arrest of people with large sums of foreign currency at the Tanger-Med and Sebta borders has alerted the authorities, who have just strengthened the controls.

A new attempt at currency trafficking at the border post of Bab Sebta , where a Moroccan residing in Spain was arrested as he was trying to cross customs to go to Europe with the sum of 39,000 euros.