From the world’s leading producer and exporter of cannabis ahead of Afghanistan to a transit country for cocaine, a country of origin for a significant part of the drug mafias, Morocco has become, over time, a fallback base for traffickers. The reason is "a part of the Moroccan political and administrative elite is involved in drug trafficking".
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has once again accused Morocco, without naming it, of flooding his country with drugs.
The suspected drug baron who is believed to have ordered two imports from Tangier in 2022 and 2023 is in the sights of the French justice system.
In Morocco, significant and regular purchases of gold in several cities have raised the concern of jewelry and jewelry professionals, who have alerted the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF), a key player in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of the Fahs Anjra brigade, on the outskirts of the city of Tangier, are conducting an investigation to elucidate the circumstances of an operation to traffic quantities of cannabis by helicopter in the region. A suspect - a truck driver - has already been arrested.
The Catalan authorities arrested in early March at the Barcelona airport a 44-year-old woman from Morocco carrying two kilos of hashish in her stomach, as she was trying to pass customs.
Issam Lahrach, the "boss of bosses" of the drug trafficking in Nantes, was arrested in Morocco as part of a judicial investigation into a kidnapping and sequestration. Rapper Maes had already been arrested in Casablanca in this same case.
Udyco (Drug and Organized Crime Unit) agents arrested six members of a Moroccan hashish trafficking network, known as the "French clan", in Ceuta. They face heavy prison sentences.
Five months after the verdict of the Sky ECC mega-trial for international cocaine and cannabis trafficking involving Maghrebians, another case called "Costa" is now being brought before the Tongeren criminal court. The trial is ongoing.
The Anti-Narcotics Office (OFAST) of Toulouse has managed to arrest a 45-year-old Moroccan considered one of the biggest cannabis importers in France and his accomplices. They were all indicted and placed in pre-trial detention.
After an immediate appearance on Friday, March 7, 2025 before the judicial court of Montauban, Fouad L., a man of nearly 40 years old, who was considering getting married in Morocco to the young woman he is in love with, was sentenced to a prison sentence.
The Spanish police dismantled in Marbella an international drug trafficking network with links to the Mocro Maffia , the Moroccan mafia specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime. In total, five people were arrested and 873 kilos of cocaine seized.