The Civil Guard has launched a large-scale operation to dismantle a Moroccan hashish trafficking network called "operation Limoneros". In this context, 400 agents were deployed on Monday in the provinces of Seville, Huelva, Cáceres, Badajoz, Toledo and Murcia.
The police of the Central Office for the Repression of Major Financial Delinquency (OCRGDF) dismantled a vast money laundering network between France and Morocco, via Spain. At the helm, a Chinese who collected the cash from cannabis trafficking to reintroduce it into the regular economic circuit through purchases from Chinese wholesalers in Aubervilliers.
The trial of Jesus Heredia Heredia, alias "El Pantoja", one of the main leaders of Moroccan hashish trafficking in the strait, opens this week at the headquarters of the Cádiz Provincial Court section in Algeciras. The prosecution has requested 13 years in prison and a fine of twelve million euros against him.
The Civil Guard has carried out an operation to dismantle a major criminal organization specialized in drug trafficking from Morocco to the Spanish coasts of Cadiz and Huelva. In total, 42 people were arrested and six tons of Moroccan hashish seized.
The police elements of Fnideq managed to seize a drone that was transporting large quantities of "Rivotril" tablets to Ceuta . An individual with links to an international psychotropic trafficking network was also arrested.
The far-right Vox party of Ceuta proposes the installation of a permanent post of the Civil Guard on the Persil (Leila) islet in order to strengthen "control and surveillance" in the Strait of Gibraltar, which has become a hub for drug and human trafficking.
The judicial police elements of the port of Tanger Med thwarted on Thursday an attempt to traffic 22.8 kilograms of cocaine hidden on board a truck of international transport registered in Morocco.
The Spanish police arrested on Sunday at Malaga airport a 38-year-old Moroccan who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Italian authorities for drug trafficking offenses.
The police and the Civil Guard have intercepted in the El Príncipe neighborhood in Ceuta narcodrones loaded with hashish from Morocco. These devices can carry up to 25 kilos of drugs per flight.
The Spanish National Police, as part of a joint operation carried out with the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) of Morocco and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), dismantled a drug trafficking network in Algeciras. More than eight tons of Moroccan hashish were seized and five people, including a Moroccan, were arrested during the operation.
An investigator from the narcotics brigade claims that the cannabis sold in Marseille comes from Morocco. He recommends that the war against drug trafficking be waged "at the source".
In Angers, the appeal trial of Moroccan cannabis traffickers ended last Thursday, with severe requisitions, including the seizure of a house in Morocco.