The hashish trafficking networks from Morocco to Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar now transport drugs not only by sea, but also by air using light aircraft or helicopters.
The wife of an elected member of the Béni Makada district council in Tangier, as well as her son and daughter, have just been arrested by the judicial police of the city in flagrante delicto of cocaine trafficking.
Extradited by the United Arab Emirates, the drug trafficker Nordin El Hajjioui (35 years old), alias Dikke Nordin, arrived on Friday in Antwerp on a military plane that landed at the Melsbroek air base.
Migrant trafficking networks transport 20 migrants in inflatable boats from Morocco to the Costa del Sol in just half an hour and for large sums that can reach up to 20,000 euros per person.
Spain is preparing to acquire a "high-endurance" drone to strengthen its fight against drug trafficking in the Strait and in Campo de Gibraltar.
A Moroccan wanted by the Italian authorities for drug trafficking was recently arrested in Benidorm, in eastern Spain.
The Civil Guard and the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie have dismantled a criminal organization specialized in the trafficking of hashish from Morocco to Spain via helicopters. In total, nine people were arrested and two helicopters as well as 795 kilos of hashish were seized.
Elements of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of Ceuta have arrested this Thursday an individual, suspected to be close to the Mocro maffia, accused of several crimes including a kidnapping in Catalonia.
Patrol boats of the Royal Moroccan Navy would collaborate with drug traffickers in the Strait of Gibraltar to smuggle hashish into Spain.
Tricycles intended for the underprivileged and ex-convicts are being diverted and used for criminal purposes. A worrying situation, denounced in a video that went viral on social media.
The Spanish police, in collaboration with the Colombian authorities, arrested a drug lord "presumed responsible for the cartel’s (Medellin) operations in Europe". The defendant would have links with the Mocro Maffia , the Moroccan mafia active in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Targeted by an Interpol red notice issued by France as part of an arrest warrant issued by a judge in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) for drug trafficking and criminal association, Félix Bingui alias the Cat, was arrested on Friday evening by the Moroccan authorities in Casablanca. He had fled to Morocco several months ago.