Moroccan police announced last Wednesday night the seizure of a “record” amount of 31 tons of cannabis in a warehouse near Tangier, in the northern part of the kingdom, and the arrest of a suspect.
Police “prevented (…) a large international drug trafficking operation” by seizing a “record cargo of 31 tons 187 kg” of cannabis resin, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of National Security (Direction générale de la sûreté nationale), D.
The operation was carried out in a warehouse near Tangier, where the cannabis was “packaged and placed in fruit and vegetable dummies, the color and size of which could facilitate their exit from Morocco as agricultural products for export,” she explained. source.
A large trailer refrigerator with dozens of bags and other packages containing hashish was also confiscated at the warehouse.
A 61-year-old man with a criminal record has been arrested and remanded in custody on “suspicion of links to a criminal ring involved in international drug trafficking,” the DGSN reported.
The investigation continues to “identify all domestic and international branches of this criminal circuit.”
Moroccan authorities occasionally announce seizures of large quantities of cannabis resin. The company announced yesterday is the most important this year.
More than 191 tonnes of cannabis were seized in 2021, down 12% from 2020, according to official figures.
In 2021, the kingdom passed a law allowing the therapeutic use of cannabis, a major reform in North Africa, one of the world ‘s main hashish producers, with the largest crops located in the Rif Mountains (north).
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