Morocco reaffirms its determination to support international efforts to combat organized crime in its various forms. This is what the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, declared on Friday in Tetouan.
The resumption of road traffic between Morocco and Mauritania, through the El Guerguerat border post, has been effective since this Saturday, November 14. This is good news for Moroccan and Mauritanian truckers who have suffered so much from the closure of this passage.
The research sections of Lyon, Chambéry, Nîmes and Montpellier, supported by Europol, dismantled a vast network for laundering drug trafficking money that channels dirty money to Morocco via Spain.
The judicial police of Casablanca arrested, on Wednesday evening, three individuals aged 19 to 46 years old. They would have links with a criminal network active in international drug trafficking.
The Boukidaren wholesale market was used as the site for the destruction of about 12 tons of drugs. These are mainly seizures made in recent months during several operations in Al Hoceima .
The deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Nîmes requested, on Tuesday, November 10, up to 15 years in prison and issued an arrest warrant against a Nîmes man on the run in Morocco . This man would be the head of a major drug trafficking network.
An attempt at international drug and psychotropic trafficking was thwarted by the police in Laâyoune. The operation led to the arrest of a repeat offender aged 28, wanted at the national level for cases of violent theft and for his alleged involvement in this new case.
The trial of the alleged drug trafficker arrested, for the first time, in Morocco , then recently in Spain will take place on November 12. He had been on the run for a year.
A Royal Navy Coast Guard on patrol thwarted, on Thursday, November 5, a drug trafficking operation. This followed a high-speed chase at sea of a fast cormorant.
The gendarmes of the Research Section of Montpellier succeeded in arresting two suspected drug traffickers and seizing 810 kilos of Moroccan cannabis resin and several firearms.
The implementation by Spain of the fuel allowance that heavily penalizes Moroccan carriers has prompted a reaction from the Kingdom. It has just put in place intelligent reciprocity measures.
Elements of the prefectural service of the judicial police of Tangier arrested three individuals on Saturday morning. They are suspected of having links with a criminal network active in drug and psychotropic trafficking.