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  • Moroccan Woman Jailed for Forging EU Residence Permits in Schengen Visa Scam
    1 June 2019, by Kamal

    Married and mother of three children, the woman was promising her clients the European dream, by offering them residence permits facilitating access to the Schengen area, in exchange for large sums of money.
    According to Assabah, the defendant was sentenced to a term of two and a half years in prison, accompanied by a fine of 50,000 dirhams. She was ordered to return the sum of 314,000 dirhams to the victims and to pay material compensation of 20,000 dirhams to each of the civil parties. (…)

  • Dakhla Police Uncover Major Drug Operation: Beggar Arrested with 22 Kilos of Hashish
    12 June 2019, by Amine

    We’ve seen it all! A beggar in Dakhla was just arrested with a large quantity of hashish in her possession, not for sale to consumers but to dealers... Was begging her cover?
    What a strange cover! 22 kilos of hashish, this is what the police found on this beggar, arrested in the Ghofrane district, last Monday, in Dakhla. This is information from the Goud website, which specifies that it was obtained from well-informed sources.
    The police were tipped off by a drug dealer who, during his (…)

  • Elderly Woman Leads Family Gang in Food Theft Spree Near Sidi Bennour
    18 June 2019, by Amine

    An unusual gang of thieves has just been "dismantled" in the vicinity of Sidi Bennour. It is led by a woman over 70 years old. It consists of two of her grandchildren and a minor.
    A septuagenarian woman and one of her minor grandchildren have just been apprehended in Aounate, in the vicinity of Sidi Bennour. Two other members of the gang, including another of her grandchildren and a minor, are still on the run. The news was reported by Kech24, relaying information from Assabah.
    However, (…)

  • Three Arrested in Marrakech for Illegal Contraceptive Pill Trafficking
    23 January 2020, by Ginette

    The Marrakech police elements arrested three individuals, including a woman. They are accused of possession and trafficking of prohibited contraceptive pills.
    It was at the Bab Doukkala bus station that the three suspects were apprehended. They were behaving in a way that attracted the curiosity of a police officer who surprised them in a car.
    After a thorough search, about 100 prohibited contraceptive pills and a large sum of money, apparently from the sale of the prohibited products, (…)

  • Customs Seize $360,000 in Undeclared Goods at Tanger-Med Port
    5 March 2020, by Ginette

    A traffic of various goods valued at more than 3.64 million dirhams (MDH) was prevented by the customs elements stationed at the port of Tanger-Med.
    It was the search of a utility vehicle registered in Belgium that allowed the elements of the Customs and Indirect Taxes Administration (ADII) to seize the various goods.
    The driver of the vehicle is a Moroccan residing in Spain. He was trying to introduce these goods into Moroccan territory without prior declaration to the ADII. These (…)

  • Spanish National Arrested Near Nador for Attempted Smuggling of 770 kg of Hashish
    14 April 2020, by Ginette

    This arrest was jointly carried out by the Nador police and the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), on the Boukana beach in the Beni Nsar region, near Nador. The Chira cargo was "packed in 52 packages and conditioned to facilitate maritime transport," adds the DGSN. During the operation, the police also seized traditional boats, engines, fuel, navigation equipment and 74 million centimes of dirhams.
    The suspects were taken into custody, at the disposal of the (…)

  • French Drug Trafficking Suspect Arrested in Northern Morocco After 7-Year Manhunt
    21 June 2019, by Amine

    A French national of Algerian origin was the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2012. He has just been arrested near Larache, in northern Morocco. He is being prosecuted for drug and psychotropic trafficking. He seemed to be continuing his trafficking in the Kingdom.
    The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) specifies, in a press release, that this arrest was carried out on May 16, 2019, in the coastal area, near Tnin Sidi El Yamani, in the vicinity of Larache. (…)

  • UN Report: Morocco Emerges as Major Cocaine Trafficking Hub in Africa
    27 June 2019, by Bladi.net

    The latest conclusions of the World Drug Report, revealed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), are very embarrassing for Morocco.
    Thus, 86% of the cocaine seized in Africa in 2017 was in Morocco. This is one of the conclusions of the World Drug Report, published on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and relayed by the HuffPost website. The Kingdom is a real hub for "white powder" on the continent.
    This finding stems from (…)

  • Major Moroccan Drug Lord Arrested in Spain for International Cocaine and Hashish Trafficking
    29 June 2019, by Amine

    Hicham, one of the most wanted drug traffickers in Spain by the anti-drug trafficking brigades, has just been arrested. He is a Moroccan who had a foothold in Latin America and was "transiting" drugs to Spain and the Netherlands.
    This drug trafficker, whose first name is Hicham, ran his large-scale drug trafficking operation from his home in Spain, more precisely on the Costa del Sol. He was arrested on Friday, June 21, according to information reaching us from the Assabah media.
    Five (…)

  • Air France to Resume Flights to Morocco and North Africa on June 1
    30 April 2020, by Sylvanus

    Air traffic suspended due to the health crisis seems to be gradually resuming. The French airline Air France has announced on its website the resumption of flight bookings to Morocco and other Maghreb countries.
    As of June 1, bookings from France to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia will be made on the Air France website. The French airline plans to resume flights to these destinations on the same date.
    As for domestic flights, they will resume as of May 11, between Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle (…)