Morocco’s Prosecutor General Debunks Viral Drug Bust Photos from 2015 Case

According to a statement from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, released on Monday, several photos of an official report have been circulated on social networks. They relate in particular to the seizure of a large quantity of drugs (09 tons of cannabis resin) and the referral of the persons involved to the public prosecutor’s office in 2015. This official report would also contain statements from two individuals about the links of other persons with this case, mentioning the seizure of drugs, vehicles and sums of money.

After an investigation, it turned out that the said "official report" is falsified, the Public Prosecutor’s Office specifies. According to the statement, the document does not exist either within the public prosecutor’s office to which the persons involved would have been referred, or with the National Brigade of Judicial Investigations of the Royal Gendarmerie of Rabat, which in turn has never drawn up an official report on this subject.

Furthermore, the preliminary findings of the investigation also revealed that the names mentioned in this official report, both those of its drafters and those of the persons involved in this case, are fictitious names or aliases, the same source points out. Similarly, the national identity card numbers of the presumed involved persons and the registration numbers of the vehicles allegedly seized are also non-existent, it adds.

For the record, in the context of this case, the services of the Royal Gendarmerie of Agadir had seized a large quantity of drugs (9,881 kilograms of cannabis resin), the same judicial source recalls, specifying that the seizure in question had indeed been the subject of an official report, recorded under number 360. Similarly, all the individuals involved had been referred to justice, the Public Prosecutor’s Office insists, confirming that the official report circulating on social networks is only the work of ill-intentioned individuals.

The investigation is already underway to apprehend the authors of this falsification and dishonest dissemination of this document, the statement concludes.