A joint operation carried out by Moroccan customs and police has thwarted an attempt at international drug trafficking via maritime containers. This operation took place at the Tanger Med port and resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of drugs hidden in tuna entrails .
Two soldiers from the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) in charge of monitoring border posts on the Assilah-Tangier section were sentenced to four years for one and three years in prison for the other for their involvement in drug trafficking cases.
The trial of drug trafficking within the Boute-en-Train housing project in Saint-Ouen opened on Thursday, April 13 before the Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) judicial court in the absence of the alleged head of the drug dealing point, on the run in Morocco. The verdict will be handed down on Friday, April 21.
The Civil Guard arrested on Wednesday in the port of Algeciras the alleged perpetrator of the murder of "Tayena", a Moroccan considered by the police as the head of a drug trafficking network active in Ceuta. He would have been killed by the rival gang of "Tweety" as part of a settling of scores.
During the holy month of Ramadan, many Moroccans try to get rid of their addictions to alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.
Mohamed Taieb, nicknamed El Nene, a drug baron assassinated in 2014 in Spain and whose body was never found, will have revolutionized drug trafficking in the Strait.
After appearing before the Bayonne court for cocaine and cannabis trafficking and money laundering, a 33-year-old man was kept in custody by the judges to prevent him from fleeing to Morocco.
The controllers of the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) have been alerted to the laundering by drug traffickers of dirty money with jewelers.
The alleged drug trafficker, Karim Harrat, 34, arrested in Morocco in November 2021 and extradited to France in February 2022, has been indicted in four cases of score-settling.
The national brigade of judicial investigations, under the high command of the Royal Gendarmerie, has succeeded in arresting four barons and an auxiliary forces agent as part of an investigation into drug trafficking by helicopter between Morocco and Portugal.
Morocco has been identified as a starting point for a large-scale drug trafficking network, which was dismantled in the Beauséjour district of Beauvais on Monday, March 13.
A 35-year-old Moroccan was arrested on the A-1, near Valdorros (Burgos), in possession of 73 kilos of marijuana and 20 kilos of hashish, hidden in his car, which he was transporting to Belgium. He is being prosecuted for a presumed crime against public health.