On the evening of Monday, October 23, National Security agents, in cooperation with customs authorities at the Port of Tangier-Med, successfully foiled an international drug and psychotropic substance smuggling operation and seized a total of 40,806 narcotic pills that were being shipped to Morocco from abroad.
A statement from the General Directorate of National Security explained that border surveillance operations and thorough inspections using police-trained dogs had led to the seizure of this shipment of psychotropic substances, carefully concealed inside an electric heater in a foreign-registered utility vehicle, immediately after its arrival on a cruise ship from a Spanish port. The operation also led to the arrest of the vehicle’s driver, a 40-year-old Moroccan national.
The same source noted that the suspect has been placed in police custody pending the outcome of the judicial investigation, which is being conducted by the Tangier Provincial Judicial Police under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office, in order to identify all local and international ramifications of this transnational criminal activity, as well as to apprehend all those involved in its commission.
According to the statement, this security operation is part of the intensive efforts being made by the General Directorate of National Security to combat international drug trafficking, specifically the illicit trade in psychotropic substances smuggled into Morocco from abroad.
