Police dismantled an international stolen bicycle trafficking ring on Wednesday. In total, four suspects were apprehended and about ten bicycles destined for Morocco were seized.
Spain is waging a fierce battle against hashish trafficking from Morocco. In the space of three months, the Guardia Civil has seized more than 700 kilos of hashish at sea in Ceuta.
The Antwerp court has sentenced in absentia Omar Govers alias "Patje Haemers", one of the city’s most notorious drug-related criminals, whose accomplices are Belgian-Moroccans Othman El Ballouti or Nordin El Hajjioui, to a heavy prison sentence for importing more than 26 tons of cocaine.
The Moroccan customs and tax authorities are investigating several fictitious companies suspected of fraud. These companies are said to have used false documents and altered customs declarations to avoid taxes and facilitate illegal fund transfers abroad.
Four residents of Cholet and Talmont-Saint-Hilaire were tried again on Friday by the Rennes Court of Appeal for their alleged involvement in a large-scale drug trafficking operation linked in particular to Morocco.
Sentenced to life for drug trafficking in Oman, Fátima Ofkir, a 25-year-old Spaniard today, was granted amnesty after seven years in prison. The young woman returned to Barcelona a week ago.
Civil Guard officers at the port of Ceuta would be accomplices of a drug trafficking network that was bringing in large shipments into the autonomous city from Morocco via a secret tunnel. They would have received 120,000 euros for this collaboration.
The Spanish police arrested at the Ceuta (Tarajal) border post a Dutch national of Moroccan origin wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking.
An employee of the prefecture of Béziers, in the Hérault, would have received nearly 500,000 euros to fraudulently issue residence permits to drug traffickers of Moroccan origin.
Youssef, a 45-year-old Moroccan, was arrested last week as he got off a plane at Orly airport (Val-de-Marne), after returning from Morocco. This delivery man is part of the home delivery network for cannabis herb and resin, which started its activities in Villejuif six years ago.
Jesús Heredia, alias el Pantoja, right-hand man and trusted man of the "Messi of hashish", is wanted by the judicial authorities of Ceuta for his alleged involvement in several cases of hashish trafficking.
Wanted by the Spanish justice to answer various crimes, Abdellah El Haj Sadek El Menbri, alias "Messi of hashish", remains untraceable. The fugitive criminal, considered the head of the largest hashish trafficking network in Spain, is said to have taken refuge in Morocco, his country of origin.