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• Belgian Authorities Probe Moroccan ’Mocro Mafia’ in €367 Million Drug Money Laundering Case
  15 November 2020, by Sylvanus

  In Brussels, the federal prosecutor’s office is investigating the Mocro mafia suspected of having laundered 367 million euros. This sum of money transited through Belgium in a drug case.
  The Belgian justice system has issued three international arrest warrants against Moroccan, Spanish-Moroccan and Pakistani nationals, in this money laundering case, reports La Dernière Heure. Judge Michel Claise is in charge of this case for which the federal prosecutor’s office wants to send twenty (…)

• Family Convicted in Grisly Murder of Father Found Walled Up in Tangier Home
  11 December 2024, by Said

  A sordid family drama unfolded in Tangier, where a family was convicted for the murder of the father, whose body was found walled up in their home.
  Thus, the eldest son, Mohamed A., was sentenced to life imprisonment, while his mother, Fatima T., was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Two other brothers were sentenced to 20 years in prison, two others to 3 years and a friend of the son to 6 years.
  The case revealed a tangle of crimes ranging from murder to concealment of evidence, as well (…)

• Major Drug Bust: 5 Arrested Near Toulouse in Morocco-France Trafficking Operation
  24 July 2020, by Prince

  A RAID team proceeded on July 17 to the arrest of five people transporting drugs from Morocco, at a toll booth on the outskirts of Toulouse.
  This arrest is the result of a series of investigations conducted since the beginning of 2020 by the Toulouse prosecutor’s office.
  The accused were suspected of engaging in drug trafficking from Morocco to supply the Mirail district, considered a hub of drug trafficking in Toulouse, reports actu.fr.
  After their arrest, they were brought before (…)

• Cheap Cocaine Alternative ’L’boufa’ Fuels Health and Crime Concerns in Morocco
  5 February 2024, by Sylvanus

  Morocco could face a serious health crisis and an increase in incidents of violence and crime due to the rapid spread of the [drug "l’boufa" or "poor man’s cocaine">103699] that is silently destroying young Moroccans.
  The fight against the "Boufa" or "poor man’s cocaine" drug requires the strengthening of legal and institutional frameworks, and the imposition of harsher sanctions against traffickers, especially those involved in cocaine trafficking or those indirectly responsible for the (…)

• Moroccan Authorities Capture Notorious Drug Lord After 7-Year Manhunt
  6 October 2024, by Sylvanus

  The gendarmerie services under the regional command of Kénitra have put an end to the flight of the biggest baron of the Gharb who had been on the run since 2016.
  A big fish falls. Targeted by several wanted notices from several local and national security services, the notorious drug trafficker in the Gharb region nicknamed Lakraa was arrested in the locality of Kceibya in the vicinity of Kénitra, reports Al Akhbar. He had been on the run since 2016, and would have spent more than four (…)

• Major Drug Trafficking Kingpin from Ceuta Arrested on Spain’s Costa del Sol
  23 April 2023, by Prince

  The police on Friday apprehended on the Costa del Sol the head of one of the two major drug and human trafficking networks active in Ceuta. The criminal, considered "very violent", was actively wanted.
  The gang led by Piolin, the arrested man, operated mainly in the El Príncipe Alfonso neighborhood in Ceuta and has, according to the police, 70 members of Moroccan origin, mostly minors recruited in the underprivileged neighborhoods of the autonomous city. The suspect, considered "very (…)

• Moroccan Drug Gang Linked to Fatal Shooting in Spain’s Galicia Region
  15 June 2024, by Prince

  The Mocro Maffia would be behind the assassination of a man in Galicia, a city located in northwestern Spain. The victim, shot in broad daylight, would have been mistaken for his brother who was the target of the Moroccan mafia. The police lean towards a settling of scores related to drug trafficking.
  The Moroccan gang would be behind several shootings and murders in Spain, the latest of which took place this week in Galicia, reports El Debate. An investigation has been opened and has (…)

• Moroccan Authorities Incinerate Over 14 Tons of Seized Drugs Near Tangier
  4 December 2020, by Ginette

  More than 14 tons of drugs have been destroyed in the vicinity of Tangier. These are the drugs seized during this year, during several operations carried out by the public forces.
  The destruction operation was carried out by the regional customs directorate, in the presence of a specialized commission composed of public and local authorities. According to the customs and indirect taxes officer in Tangier, Abdelghani Seghiri, quoted by the Map, the value of this quantity of incinerated (…)

• Brazilian Smuggler Caught with Nearly 1 kg of Cocaine in Intestines at Casablanca Airport
  28 January 2019, by Said

  Some 980 grams of cocaine packaged in 81 capsules were extracted from the intestines of a national arrested two weeks ago at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca.
  Aged 22, the suspect was apprehended on January 14 upon arrival on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN), which specifies that the young man was then to take a flight to Paris.
  Suspected of drug trafficking, he had been placed under medical supervision at the Ibn Rochd (…)

• Moroccan Expat Caught Smuggling 10kg of Hashish in Child Car Seat at Ceuta Border
  17 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Joint Customs and National Security Control Brigade at the Bab Sebta crossing point thwarted, this weekend, an attempt to traffic 10 kilograms of chira, according to a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).
  The ingenuity of the traffickers did not prevent the customs officers from discovering the hiding place of the drugs. It was carefully packaged in a bag and hidden in a child car seat, reports the MAP.
  The defendant, an MRE residing in Spain, was (…)