Moroccan Drug Kingpin Captured After 25 Years on the Run

The drug baron nicknamed "Limouni" is no longer free to move around. Targeted by numerous arrest warrants for international drug trafficking, failure to comply, and for causing serious injury to a police officer for several years, he presented himself to the police services in Fnideq, reports Al Akhbar. After his transfer to the Tetouan security prefecture where he was questioned, he was then brought before the Attorney General. The latter ordered his placement in pre-trial detention in the local prison. Several offenses committed by the baron have been time-barred, but he will be retried for a criminal case in which he was convicted in absentia to 10 years in prison, according to sources close to the investigation.

Considered the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco and one of the biggest drug traffickers, particularly of cocaine, Limouni had been on the run for 25 years and moved between northern Morocco and southern Spain, the daily reports, adding that this Moroccan-Spaniard obtained his hard drugs from the city of Ceuta and the La Línea de la Concepción region in southern Spain, where the major cocaine distribution networks were active at the beginning of the new millennium.