Three Moroccan brothers have been sentenced to heavy prison terms for trafficking cannabis and cocaine between Toulouse and Cantal, with a market value estimated at three million euros.
Spain is pressuring Dubai to hand over two drug lords involved in a large-scale cocaine and cannabis trafficking operation, particularly with Morocco.
For stealing cocaine entrusted to him, Yacine El M’Rabet, 46, was tortured to death in 2022. His bosses, Michaël Pindeville and Ahmed El Battouti, aged 19 and 17 at the time of the events, put him through hell before leaving him for dead. Their trial has opened before the Brussels Assize Court.
Following anonymous calls, gendarmes from the Lyon research section (SR) came across a Moroccan-registered truck carrying a large quantity of cannabis.
The Antwerp court has sentenced in absentia Omar Govers alias "Patje Haemers", one of the city’s most notorious drug-related criminals, whose accomplices are Belgian-Moroccans Othman El Ballouti or Nordin El Hajjioui, to a heavy prison sentence for importing more than 26 tons of cocaine.
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".
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.
About thirty kilograms of cocaine were discovered on Friday on a beach in Agadir, local sources reported. An investigation has been opened by the security services.
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 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.
Belgium is requesting the extradition of the Belgian-Moroccan, Namoussi Mounir alias "Mou", arrested at the end of February in Barranquilla as part of an international investigation into cocaine trafficking involving Eastern European cartels. He faces a heavy prison sentence if extradited to the European country.
Othman El Ballouti, 37, is one of the first cocaine traffickers to fructify his illegal activities in Dubai. Since his last conviction in 2013, he has disappeared from the radar. He is not the subject of any arrest or search warrant.