Spanish Police Bust Drug and Human Trafficking Ring with Ties to Moroccan Customs Officials

During the investigation led by the court of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife), the agents of the Unit against Immigration Networks and Document Forgeries (UCRIF) of the police discovered that the members of the network were bribing Moroccan customs officials to smuggle their contraband goods (shoes and clothing). The customs officials take between 45 and 1,500 euros to let these goods through. According to the investigators, the network could be linked to an official of the border ports of Algeciras and Morocco, reports La Informacion.

One of the searches carried out at the home of the main leader of the network, a resident of Crevillent, led to the seizure of about a hundred boxes of clothing and shoes worth 270,000 euros. The police wiretaps also reveal other crimes of falsifying employment contracts for 5,000 to 13,000 euros, Covid certificates and registrations carried out at 400 euros. These fake employment contracts could be used to facilitate the arrival in Spain of Moroccan migrants or to illegally receive unemployment benefits.