Civil Guard officers at the port of Ceuta would be accomplices of a drug trafficking network that was bringing in large shipments into the autonomous city from Morocco via a secret tunnel. They would have received 120,000 euros for this collaboration.
The Spanish police arrested at the Ceuta (Tarajal) border post a Dutch national of Moroccan origin wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking.
Two Moroccan soldiers lost their lives on March 30 in the Tagounite region, near the Algerian border, following an accident that occurred during an anti-drug operation, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) confirmed.
An employee of the prefecture of Béziers, in the Hérault, would have received nearly 500,000 euros to fraudulently issue residence permits to drug traffickers of Moroccan origin.
Andalusia is under the grip of karkoubi or "drug of the poor". The health and police authorities of the Spanish autonomous community express concerns about the spread of this Moroccan drug composed of hashish and clonazepam.
Jesús Heredia, alias el Pantoja, right-hand man and trusted man of the "Messi of hashish", is wanted by the judicial authorities of Ceuta for his alleged involvement in several cases of hashish trafficking.
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".
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has once again accused Morocco, without naming it, of flooding his country with drugs.
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.
Issam Lahrach, the "boss of bosses" of the drug trafficking in Nantes, was arrested in Morocco as part of a judicial investigation into a kidnapping and sequestration. Rapper Maes had already been arrested in Casablanca in this same case.
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.