French Customs Seize €176,000 in Cash from Moroccan Truck Driver on A10 Highway

Approximately 176,000 euros. This is the amount that customs officers discovered in the cab of a Moroccan truck driver during a check on the A10 motorway at the Longue Vue rest area (Indre-et-Loire) on July 30, reports Actu.fr. Banknotes packed in sealed plastic bags.

The customs officers had stopped the driver before placing him in custody at the Tours judicial police station. "At first, he denied everything," says a source close to the case, "then he gave his version of the facts." He told the investigators that a man of about thirty years old had given him this bag in Ris-Orangis (Essonne).

According to the investigators of the judicial police of Orléans, the Moroccan truck driver would be a member of a large cannabis trafficking network active between Morocco, France and other European countries. The merchandise would mainly come from Morocco, where it would be grown in the Rif mountains, before being transported to France by boat and in vehicles. For now, the investigators are working to identify the driver’s sponsors. The latter has been placed in pre-trial detention.