Moroccan Customs

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• Moroccan Customs Seize 19 Kilos of Cannabis at Ceuta Border Crossing
  10 February 2019, by Said

  Some 19 kilos of drugs were seized on Friday evening by customs services at Bab Sebta, in the north of the country, on board a vehicle driven by a Moroccan residing abroad.
  Sources cited by the MAP agency indicate that 19 kilos of cannabis resin were seized during a "routine control operation", adding that this quantity of drugs was carefully hidden in a compartment behind the dashboard.
  The Moroccan residing abroad, whose country of residence was not disclosed, was arrested by the (…)

• Moroccan Arrested at Border Crossing: 14 kg of Cannabis Hidden in Motorcycle
  12 February 2019, by Amine

  Moroccan security services arrested a Moroccan on Monday in Bab Sebta who was trying to smuggle more than 14 kg of cannabis in a... motorcycle.
  While the customs services at Bab Sebta had just arrested, last Friday, a Moroccan residing abroad who was trying to smuggle 19 kilos of drugs in a car, it is 14.5 kilos that a Moroccan was trying to smuggle, but in a motorcycle.
  It was a thorough search carried out on a motorcycle by the customs services assigned to Bab Sebta that allowed the (…)

• Moroccan Court Fines Cocaine Ring $150,000, Leader Jailed for 8 Years
  12 November 2019, by Ginette

  The 4 cocaine traffickers were arrested during a large-scale operation carried out by the police targeting hard drug traffickers operating in the rural commune of Ait Youssef Ou Ali, under the Cercle of Beni Ouriaghel, in the province of Al Hoceima.
  It is Aujourd’hui le Maroc that provides the information according to which the gang leader received the heaviest sentence, namely 8 years of criminal imprisonment accompanied by a fine of 2,000 dirhams.
  The three others get off with, (…)

• Moroccan Customs Seize 1,680 Endangered Goldfinches in Smuggling Bust
  16 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  An attempt to export 1680 goldfinch birds was thwarted in the early hours of Thursday in Oujda.
  During a control operation on national road number 6 leading to the entrance of the city of Oujda, the customs officers managed to intercept a passenger car with 28 wooden crates, each containing 60 "elegant goldfinch" birds, with an estimated market value of 840,000.00 dirhams.
  Caught in the act, the driver managed to flee. He could not be arrested.
  As for the birds, they were handed over (…)

• Customs Seize 1-Kilo Gold Artifact at Casablanca Airport
  6 March 2020, by Kamal

  A Moroccan national, arriving on an international flight, was apprehended on Wednesday, March 4 evening, at the Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca.
  During the passenger control operation, the Moroccan customs agents found an antique gold piece weighing one kilo.
  According to the statements of the customs services at the airport, the object was seized and sent for expertise, in order to determine its historical and financial value.
  The operation is part of the efforts made (…)

• Morocco Reports Sharp Drop in Illegal Cigarette Trade for 2020
  7 October 2020, by Ginette

  These figures come from the customs and indirect taxes administration at the end of a working meeting of the national commission to combat cigarette smuggling. During the meeting, participants were presented with the 7th study on the prevalence of contraband cigarettes for 2020.
  This rate of 1.37% was made possible thanks to the efforts made by the customs administration, the Royal Gendarmerie, the police and the economic operators active in the field. The authorities in recent years have (…)

• Morocco Loses Millions in Revenue to Smuggling at Spanish Enclaves
  14 February 2019, by Said

  In addition to its human cost, with the death of several carriers, mainly women, the smuggling of goods with the two cities of Melilla and Ceuta has a financial and economic cost that is increasingly difficult for the Moroccan authorities to bear.
  So far, few figures have been revealed about the real cost of this smuggling, but according to the Director General of the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) Nabil Lakhdar, Morocco would lose between 6 and 8 billion dirhams each (…)

• Moroccan Customs Seize Over 150,000 Euros from Expatriates at Tanger-Med Port
  21 February 2019, by Said

  Several operations by the Moroccan customs services have in recent days led to the arrest of Moroccans residing abroad, in possession of large sums of undeclared money to the Foreign Exchange Office.
  In a press release published by the MAP, customs indicate that they seized, during six operations, some 149,570 euros that "six Moroccans residing abroad were trying to bring into Morocco without going through the usual procedures". Two other operations, this time on departure, allowed the (…)

• Moroccan Customs Seize 13 kg of Cannabis at Ceuta Border Crossing
  14 March 2019, by Said

  New drug seizure at the border post of Ceuta where Moroccan customs officers have just seized 13 kilos of cannabis resin that were on board a car.
  A customs source quoted by the MAP reports the seizure "on Tuesday during a routine vehicle control operation at the Bab Sebta crossing point, of 13 kg of cannabis resin". This drug was hidden "in specially designed hiding places under the chassis of a car registered in Morocco" which was heading to Ceuta.
  It is a Moroccan national who was (…)

• Morocco Customs Seizes 19 Tons of Cannabis, Sees Surge in Psychotropic Drug Seizures
  16 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  In its activity report for the year 2018, the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) indicates that it seized 19.2 tons of cannabis resin, compared to 33.7 tons in 2017.
  The activity report of the customs administration has provided the figures in detail to justify the effective fight against drugs. Thus, in the case of hard drugs, the seizures were also less important last year compared to 2017, with 132.4 kilos of hard drugs seized in 2018 against 476.7 kilos a year earlier. (…)