The UDYCO of Estepona and Ceuta have dismantled a network trafficking Moroccan hashish destined for France. In total, 10 kilos of this drug, hidden in eggplant cartons, were seized and 3 individuals were arrested.
Moroccan Fikri Amellah Agharbi, considered one of the most important hashish and cocaine traffickers in the strait, and supplier of the Messi clan and Los Castaña, was arrested this week by the Spanish police.
The Civil Guard has this week dismantled a network of cocaine and hashish traffickers from Morocco to southern Spain. In total, 17 people, including Moroccans, were arrested.
Saïd Razzouki, a Dutch drug trafficker of Moroccan origin who had been living in Sabaneta, Colombia for four years and had been arrested two years ago following an international arrest warrant issued against him by Interpol, will be extradited to the Netherlands.
The Beninese authorities have just made a request for extradition to Morocco following the arrest of a Frenchman involved in a case of 145 kg of cocaine found in a container of sugar at the port of Cotonou.
The Spanish police, in collaboration with the Portuguese security forces, dismantled on Monday a network of drug traffickers who wanted to introduce drugs from Morocco into Spain, hidden in a fishing boat. In total, 20 people were arrested and 4,248 kilograms of cocaine seized.
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 National Police and the Civil Guard have recently dismantled two organizations specializing in drug trafficking and allegedly linked to Abdellah El Haj, better known as the "Messi of hashish", and another drug trafficker from the "Charlines clan".
Based on information provided by the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), a gendarme, suspected of being the head of a cocaine trafficking network, and his accomplice were arrested on July 13 after a long car chase with elements of the judicial police from the regional security of Kénitra .
The Interpol branch in Rabat Interpol proceeded to arrest a Frenchman who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued against him by the French judicial authorities. He would have been on the run since he was sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking.
The Spanish Department of Homeland Security warns in its annual report of the "remarkable" increase in cocaine trafficking from Morocco. South American drug traffickers have, they say, made the kingdom the gateway for drugs into Europe via the strait.
The trial of the Moroccan Samir I. known as "Tajine" opened on Wednesday in Nanterre, four months after his arrest in Marbella, Spain. Sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison, he will be tried again for two drug cases, including one that led to the seizure of cocaine hidden in a torpedo fixed under a cargo ship.