Attempt to smuggle medicines made with dangerous materials into Tangier Med port foiled

Heba Press / Tangier Office

On the evening of Thursday, August 8, National Security agents at the Port of Tangier Med were able to foil an attempt at illicit smuggling of drugs based on narcotic substances subject to international control.

Surveillance operations carried out by police officers inside a shipping container, which was on board a ship coming from an Asian country and destined for a West African country, led to the seizure of large quantities of medicines manufactured from narcotic substances subject to international control.

The seized shipments amounted to 182,200 vials of the drug, the shipping data of which were falsified and fraudulent declarations were made about the nature of the goods transported, claiming that they were spare parts for motorcycles and not a drug containing narcotic substances subject to international control.

Members of the Scientific and Technical Police also took samples of the seized materials, with the aim of transmitting them to the National Laboratory of Scientific and Technical Police to undergo the necessary expertise.

At the same time, the territorially competent judicial police opened a judicial investigation under the supervision of the public prosecutor, to discover the persons involved in the attempted illegal smuggling of these materials and monitor the routes and destinations of their smuggling, in coordination with the Interpol offices in the countries concerned by the route of the maritime voyage that transported the contraband shipments.