Moroccan Court Hands Down Severe Sentences to Cocaine and Cannabis Traffickers in Fez

The main defendant was sentenced to eight years in prison and a fine of 100,000 DH for possession and trafficking of chira and cocaine, reports Assabah. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 3.677 million dirhams and another of 777,000 DH for having transported drugs, facilitated their use and participated in their trafficking. The court sentenced his accomplice, a man with a criminal record related to drug and psychotropic substance trafficking, to the same prison sentence and a fine of 50,000 DH. The wife of one of the accused was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 20,000 DH. The fourth accused was sentenced to three years in prison and the same fine.

In the civil procedure, the four accused were ordered to jointly pay 1.68 million dirhams to the customs administration. If they had not paid this amount, they would have risked an additional year in prison, with the main accused and his accomplice having to pay a fine of around 5,600 DH.