Since the closure of the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, thousands of smugglers no longer have sources of income. The development projects decided by the Moroccan government, as an alternative, are still awaiting.
The closure of Morocco’s borders has exposed the role of the black market in the north of the country. It is a provider of unsuspected jobs and fortunes.
The customs officers of Tangier carried out a major seizure of smuggled ready-to-wear clothing last Saturday in the city of the strait.
The authorities in the Tangier region have seized several tons of smuggled fabrics and textile items. An investigation has been opened in the wake of this on money laundering by these networks.
Smuggled clothing and fabrics worth a total of around 2.5 million dirhams were seized in Tangier on Wednesday. This was an operation carried out by customs and indirect tax elements in collaboration with the judicial police.
Smuggled clothing and fabrics worth an estimated 2.5 million dirhams were seized by the customs and indirect tax elements in Tangier. The operation was jointly organized with the judicial police.
The Spanish police seized more than 30 tons of hashish on board four "narco-sailboats" last Wednesday. Behind this seizure, the largest at sea ever carried out in the country, is a Russian-Bulgarian organization.
Since September 4, as part of the "Clean Hands" operation, the judicial police are facing behaviors that could harm public health in the Kingdom. The facts could be reclassified as criminal.
Following the closure of several venues and the withdrawal of alcohol licenses, professionals in the field, through the Alliance of Free Trade Unions, organized a sit-in this Friday, September 25, starting at 10 a.m., in front of the Wilaya of the Casablanca-Settat region.
A joint security commission carried out searches in several classified restaurants and alcohol depots in Marrakech. The harvest is striking.
Due to the large number of smuggled alcohol bottles seized, the "Emperor of Wine" faces heavy criminal penalties. The bill from the Moroccan Customs is also very steep.
Control operations carried out on September 8 and 9 in restaurants and warehouses made it possible to seize large quantities of smuggled or expired alcoholic beverages, and others that had escaped customs controls. These are measures relating to the violation of the state of health emergency, as well as the unauthorized sale of alcoholic beverages.