A former soldier who became a taxi driver in Salé was arrested by the judicial police of the Laâyayda district. Pending the opening of his trial next week, he has been detained for drug trafficking.
Morocco has refused the temporary handover of drug baron Sofiane Hambli, arrested in October 2021 in a clinic in Tangier , to France. As a result, his trial, which was to open on June 7, has been postponed to December 9.
The Southern Inter-Regional Customs Directorate destroyed several tons of seized drugs, including cannabis, as well as illicit and contraband products, estimated at over 26.16 million dirhams (MDH), on Wednesday in Dakhla.
An investigation has been opened by the judicial police to arrest all the people involved in an attempt to traffic 3.2 tons of cannabis resin seized at the port of Casablanca.
The Civil Guard arrested this Thursday in Madrid a 21-year-old Dominican man for his alleged link to a drug trafficking network that tried to kill a Moroccan, a member of another network.
The Civil Guard and the Spanish police have dismantled two major cocaine and hashish trafficking networks from Tangier, Morocco, on the Andalusian coast. The drugs were hidden in tomato shipments. In total, 13 tons of hashish and 16 tons of cocaine were seized.
A Moroccan residing in France had fled to Morocco in 2017 after being suspected of heading a major drug trafficking operation between Orléans and Darvoy. 5 years later, he gets two years in prison.
A Moroccan, subject to an international arrest warrant issued by the Moroccan authorities, was apprehended on Tuesday by the Spanish Civil Guard in Ceuta.
The National Police and the Civil Guard have dismantled a major drug trafficking network between the ports of Tangier and Algeciras in which police officers are involved. In total, at least eight agents from different corps have been arrested.
The judicial police services in Casablanca have arrested Noureddine B., a French drug baron of Algerian origin, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the French authorities. He will soon be extradited to France.
The trial of the "drug supermarket" in Saint-Ouen continues before the Judicial Court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) in the absence of the alleged head of the network who fled to Morocco in January 2021. He has still not been arrested.
The Spanish police have managed to dismantle an international drug trafficking network that was supplying the Moroccan market with pink cocaine, a new party drug stronger than regular cocaine. Several traffickers were arrested as part of this operation.