Drug Traffickers Deploy Divers to Smuggle Narcotics Across Morocco-Spain Border

Drug lords are calling on the services of Moroccan and Spanish divers to transport their goods from Morocco to Spain. It is a "network of divers," trained in Nador and Driouch, to recover the drugs at the bottom of the sea and transport them to the speedboats stationed in the Mediterranean waters, reports the daily Assabah.

Transported in trucks from Morocco to the Mediterranean shore, the drugs are then entrusted to Moroccan divers for their conveyance to speedboats before being thrown into the sea, then recovered by Spanish divers who are responsible for transporting them to the coast on pleasure boats, specifies the same source, stressing that in doing so, the drug lords are trying to escape the controls of the Moroccan and Spanish security and anti-drug services.

The network is led by former drug traffickers based in southern Spain. Their stratagem was recently uncovered by the Spanish security services during a large anti-drug operation, which led to the arrest of several divers, the seizure of large quantities of drugs, sophisticated telecommunications equipment and GPS locators.