Moroccan Drug Traffickers Jailed for Kidnapping and Torture in Spain’s Cádiz Province

The two Moroccan brothers, aged 40 and 27, arrived in the province of Cádiz in the summer of 2019, and made contact with a Spaniard, a local resident, to whom they handed over money to buy a boat in his name to allow them to "introduce large quantities of hashish" into Spain, according to La Voz de Cádiz.

In the following months, the two traffickers set up the necessary system for their drug trafficking and even made several trips before being arrested in October of the same year, off the Moroccan coast, on board the boat that was transporting a large quantity of hashish. The two brothers, believing that their Spanish partner had betrayed them, decided to make him pay for it.

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This is how they called him on the phone several times and even went to his home in November 2019 to threaten him and his wife with death. Feeling his life and that of his loved ones threatened, the partner stopped going to work, turned off his cell phone and refrained from going out on the street. But this did not prevent the accused from setting a trap for him and forcibly taking him to an apartment in Manilva where they threatened and violently assaulted him, before forcing him to sign a contract to sell his house.

The two brothers admitted the facts and the Cádiz court sentenced them to a sentence of eight years and two months in prison for the crimes of drug trafficking, continuous extortion and kidnapping. The accomplice, for his part, was sentenced to five years in prison and the victim, accused of a drug trafficking crime, to one year and two months in prison.