International Drug Ring Busted: Laval Residents Face Trial for Massive Money Laundering Scheme

Eight defendants, including seven from Laval, are being tried before the Rennes judicial court, notably for money laundering, drug trafficking and participation in a criminal association between 2017 and 2020 in several municipalities in Mayenne, Morocco and Spain. The court is awaiting explanations from them about the role they may have played and their involvement in this vast trafficking and money laundering operation, reports francebleu. One of the defendants, aged 31, is being prosecuted for a larger number of offenses. He also has to answer for refusing to comply in October 2018 in Louverné, near Laval.

A similar case had been tried a little over a year ago, also in Rennes, before the JIRS. Four people from Mayenne and one from Lyon had appeared before the court to answer for a major cannabis trafficking operation - the transit of 900 kg of cannabis between Morocco and Mayenne between 2019 and 2021. They had been sentenced to prison terms of one to nine years.