Moroccan Police Officers Arrested in Tangier for Alleged Ties to Cocaine Trafficking Ring

The details of these arrests are reported by the newspaper Assabah, which indicates that four police officers were referred on Monday to the public prosecutor for disclosure of professional secrets. Posted in Tangier, they also covered an individual wanted in a drug case.

According to the newspaper, it is a sergeant and three sub-sergeants accused of having provided a mobile phone to a detainee to allow him to communicate with an individual wanted in the so-called "Dakhla cocaine" case that had erupted in 2016. It was thanks to this phone call that several suspects managed to escape and postpone a hard drug trafficking operation.

In 2016, the services of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) had seized just over 1,230 kilos of cocaine in the south of the country, one of the largest seizures in the history of the Moroccan police.