The federal judicial police of Leuven, in coordination with the Dutch regional police forces of Zeeland-West Brabant and Rotterdam, as well as the Spanish Guardia Civil, have succeeded in dismantling a criminal organization composed of Moroccan, Spanish and Belgian nationals. In total, 180 million euros from cocaine trafficking were laundered by this network.
The trial of drug trafficking within the Boute-en-Train housing project in Saint-Ouen opened on Thursday, April 13 before the Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) judicial court in the absence of the alleged head of the drug dealing point, on the run in Morocco. The verdict will be handed down on Friday, April 21.
The Civil Guard arrested on Wednesday in the port of Algeciras the alleged perpetrator of the murder of "Tayena", a Moroccan considered by the police as the head of a drug trafficking network active in Ceuta. He would have been killed by the rival gang of "Tweety" as part of a settling of scores.
The Civil Guard has arrested three individuals suspected of having stolen at least 16 cars in the Alicante and Murcia regions. According to information gathered during the investigation, the thefts were committed in order to carry out other crimes, while some of the stolen vehicles were sold in Morocco.
The trial of Antonio Tejón "El Castaña", head of one of the most active Moroccan hashish trafficking networks in the Campo de Gibraltar, as well as 151 of his collaborators, will open at the provincial court of Cádiz. The prosecution has requested against them sentences of 1,787 years in prison and €15.18 billion in fines.
Oliver Andrew, the 29-year-old Briton imprisoned in Morocco for counterfeiting currency and forming an organized criminal group, will soon be informed of his fate.
Mohamed Taieb, nicknamed El Nene, a drug baron assassinated in 2014 in Spain and whose body was never found, will have revolutionized drug trafficking in the Strait.
After appearing before the Bayonne court for cocaine and cannabis trafficking and money laundering, a 33-year-old man was kept in custody by the judges to prevent him from fleeing to Morocco.
The controllers of the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) have been alerted to the laundering by drug traffickers of dirty money with jewelers.
The alleged drug trafficker, Karim Harrat, 34, arrested in Morocco in November 2021 and extradited to France in February 2022, has been indicted in four cases of score-settling.
While the mastermind of a cannabis trafficking network dismantled between Spain and Nice in February 2022 is in Morocco, his "employees" have received various prison sentences following their trial before the correctional court.
The Spanish police arrested 15 individuals, including Moroccans, as alleged perpetrators of multiple kidnappings linked to a settling of scores between Moroccan hashish trafficking networks.