Information from the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) allowed the Prefectural Judicial Police Service of Agadir to arrest an individual suspected of being linked to an international drug trafficking network.
More than thirty people were brought before the Specialized Chamber for Financial Crimes of the Court of Appeal in Rabat, for international drug trafficking. 18 officers of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) were present at this hearing. Among them was the Commander of the 6th Border Guard Company.
The Gibraltar customs services managed to apprehend a German national at the Spanish border. The individual was in possession of a large quantity of drugs from Morocco.
An attempt to traffic cannabis resin was thwarted by the Moroccan customs at the Port of Tangier on Tuesday, August 27. A couple of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) tried to smuggle a quantity of 460 kilograms, carefully hidden in the bodywork of their 4x4 car, in the form of slabs.
The National Brigade of the Judicial Police arrested a foreign national with an Israeli passport. He is suspected of being linked to the criminal network involved in the forgery of Moroccan identity documents and passports, dismantled in March 2019.
An international network of luxury car trafficking has just been dismantled by the Spanish Guardia civil. At the Ceuta border post, three individuals were arrested as they were trying to smuggle a car stolen in Germany.
Morocco is "the global epicenter of the purchase and sale of fossils". This is revealed by an investigation by the newspaper El Mundo on the trafficking of archaeological fossils and dinosaur remains in southern Morocco.
Another scandal has just broken out at the "Souissi" maternity ward, under the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat. Kept for three days after birth, in the neonatology department, a female baby was exchanged with another, male. The mother of the first refuses to leave the hospital before having a DNA test done on the newborn.
A video showing the driver of a Moroccan bus reading a book while driving has gone viral. The reckless behavior of the individual who, in addition, had not worn a seat belt, provoked the anger of Internet users.
Elements of the Royal Gendarmerie seized a large quantity of smuggled fabrics on the Agadir-Tiznit road axis.
On Saturday, July 27, 2019, the waters of the Aghroud beach, 30 km north of Agadir, washed up 3 handbags full of banknotes. Hundreds of 100 and 200 dirham bills scattered on the beach alerted the security services during a patrol around the beach.
Spanish National Police agents arrested a fugitive of Moroccan nationality in the province of Malaga, in Marbella, Spain, on Monday, July 22. The individual, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued against him by the Moroccan authorities, is already being claimed by the Kingdom of Morocco.