This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress
A joint security operation carried out by elements of National Security and Customs, Wednesday afternoon at the El Guerguerat border post, south of the city of Dakhla, made it possible to foil an attempt at international drug trafficking and the seizure of 37 kilograms and 683 grams of cocaine, we learned from a security source.
The border control operation and search, carried out using sniffer dogs, led to the seizure of drug shipments carefully concealed in the engines of two international goods transport trucks, bearing Moroccan license plates, coming from a sub-Saharan African country, as well as the arrest of their two drivers, aged 24 and 47 respectively.
A preliminary investigation was opened under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office, in order to elucidate the circumstances of this case, identify the people involved and identify the ramifications of these criminal activities both in Morocco and on a regional and international scale, we added from the same source.
This joint operation is part of the intense and continuous efforts deployed by the various security services at the El Guerguerat border post, with a view to combating international trafficking in drugs and psychotropic substances as well as preventing and combating all forms of forms of transnational crime, concludes the same source.
