According to sources from the public prosecutor’s office, the Moroccan judicial authorities received 288 international letters rogatory in 2022, of which just over 80 came from France.
The National Court will examine on Monday the Moroccan request for the extradition of Rachid Gdari, known as "El Sardina", the famous drug trafficker active in Spain for years and wanted by the Moroccan authorities for having facilitated the illegal entry into Morocco of a Spaniard.
The alleged perpetrator of the murder of Albanian businessman Ardian Nikulaj in Shëngjin has been arrested in Morocco by the police. Ruben Saraiva, a 28-year-old Portuguese, was located thanks to information provided by Interpol Tirana and Interpol Rabat.
The Audiencia Nacional has ordered the extradition of a 45-year-old Moroccan wanted by Interpol after the international arrest warrant issued by the judicial authorities of Tetouan on September 22, 2022, and arrested in Roquetas de Mar (Almeria) last November.
Charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl in 2020, Abderrahmane Mohamed Samran Al-Azmi, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti national at the time of the events, had been released on bail thanks to his embassy, which had promised his presence at the trial. However, the accused has since escaped justice by fleeing Morocco, and his conditional release has been disapproved by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH).
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 Audiencia Nacional will decide on Tuesday whether or not to extradite a Moroccan accused of migrant trafficking. The defendant illegally brought 28 Moroccan migrants into Spain by boat in 2017. These were later deported to Morocco.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has validated the extradition of Driss Oukabir, sentenced to 36 years in prison for the terrorist attacks of August 17, 2017 in Catalonia, so that he can serve the rest of his sentence in a Moroccan prison.
Belgium is demanding the extradition of the Belgo-Moroccan Abdelilah El Messaoudi, nicknamed "Black", who was definitively sentenced to eight years in prison by the Antwerp court.
Arrested at Casablanca airport in 2021, Karim Harrat, a drug baron in Marseille, has been extradited from Morocco to France, where he is to be tried for his involvement in four score-settling incidents related to drug trafficking.
The Moroccan police have arrested a man wanted for the murder of Robert Powell in Essex three years ago. Pending his extradition to the United Kingdom, he has been placed in detention.
Three weeks after the signing of the extradition decree of the young Frenchman Sébastien Raoult, he boarded on Wednesday afternoon for the United States.