Foiling an attempt to smuggle drugs made from narcotics into the port of Tangier Med

Heba Press / Tangier Office

Yesterday, Thursday, September 5, National Security agents at the Tangier Med Port were able to foil an attempt to smuggle drugs based on narcotic substances subject to international control.

Surveillance operations carried out by police officers inside three shipping containers, which were on board a ship coming from an Asian country and destined for a West African country, led to the seizure of 2,609 large crates of medicines manufactured from narcotic substances subject to international control.

The seized shipments amounted to 521,800 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 electrical equipment 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 sea voyage carrying the smuggled shipments.