The French gendarmes have dismantled a major Moroccan drug trafficking network based in the Île-de-France region and in Lyon. In total, thirteen people were indicted, nine of whom were held in pre-trial detention.
Moroccan cannabis farmers will see their incomes increase if parliament were to endorse the current bill on the lawful uses of the psychotropic product. This is what the Moroccan Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, declared on Thursday in Rabat.
In Spain, several clandestine workshops for the manufacture of weapons exported to Ceuta and Melilla and delivered to Moroccan drug traffickers have been dismantled. The Spanish police have arrested several workers.
The cities of Laâyoune and Dakhla have recently been the scene of violent clashes between members of smuggling networks. The origin was a settling of scores between traffickers.
Morocco’s overall port traffic is doing well despite the health crisis related to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, it went from 153.1 million tons in 2019 to 172.1 million tons in 2020, an increase of 12.4%.
Divisional Commissioner Anne-Sophie Coulbois, head of the Central Office for the Repression of Major Financial Delinquency (OCRGDF), says that traffickers use underground bankers, particularly the "sarafs" who live in Morocco , to launder drug money.
A dozen individuals, including a pharmacist and a trafficker, were sentenced to various terms by the Meknes court. They are involved in an organized criminal network that is active in the trafficking of "Karkoubi".
The national police intercepted on Monday a drone carrying a kilo of Moroccan hashish. For reasons still unknown, the device would have lost control and ended up on the roof of one of the ships in the Tarajal polygon.
The Spanish Civil Guard arrested about a hundred drug traffickers on Saturday in an international operation against drug trafficking from Morocco. In total, more than 5,000 kilos of Moroccan hashish and 230 kilos of marijuana plants were seized.
After the interception of narco-drones and the dismantling of a network specialized in international drug trafficking "by air" a month ago, the authorities of Ceuta were certain that they had finished with this channel. Error, the activity is still in full swing throughout the region.
For several weeks, Morocco has suspended air links with several countries, including Germany, Italy, Algeria, and Egypt. This measure, aimed at further securing the borders of the kingdom in the face of new variants of Covid-19, is having a negative impact on air traffic, much to the dismay of tourism professionals.
Some 7 tons of cannabis resin were seized on Thursday by the police services of the city of Kenitra . This new police intervention comes just hours after the seizure of 2 tons of drugs in the same city.