Security operations carried out by the National Security and Customs services to combat international trafficking in narcotics and psychotropic substances resulted, today Saturday, in the seizure of 72 kg and 180 grams of cocaine, over the course of two separate security operations carried out at Tangier airport. Port Med and Guerguerat border post, south of Dakhla.
A security source explained that the first operation carried out at the Guerguerat border post resulted in the seizure of 197 boxes of cocaine carefully hidden inside a truck transporting international goods from a sub-Saharan African country. and whose total weight reached 55 kilograms and 950 grams, before the arrest of its 55-year-old driver.
During a second security operation at the port of Tangier Med, adds the same source, the checks carried out by the police and customs officers inside a maritime transport container of goods, coming from a country of Latin America, led to the seizure of 14 people. boxes of cocaine, with a total weight of 16 kilograms and 230 grams.
The territorially competent judicial police services have opened a judicial investigation under the supervision of the public prosecutor, in order to discover the people involved in the attempted smuggling of these shipments of narcotics and to control the routes and destinations of their smuggling, in coordination with Interpol offices in the countries involved in the smuggling route of these contraband narcotics shipments.
