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| Morocco foils massive cocaine smuggling attempt |
| 2018-02-12 |
| [XINHUANET] Moroccan authorities foiled on Sunday an international attempt to smuggle 541 kg of cocaine at the port of the financial city of Casablanca. According to a statement from the Moroccan Interior Ministry, the banned substance was concealed in a shipping container from South America. The operation led to the arrest of 6 people, including the criminal mastermind of this criminal network, a Brazilian national, the statement said. Five cars intended to be used for the transport of the drug were also seized aw well as large sums of money in national and foreign currencies, it added. The preliminary investigation reveals the dangerous nature of this criminal network, its transnational ramifications and links with cartels in Latin America, which now exploit the strategic location of the Kingdom as a transit point to Europe, the same source pointed out. Investigation is underway to arrest all the people involved in this drug-trafficking attempt, it noted. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 There is a Slick Willy joke there somewhere. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-02-12 12:35 |
| #8 Thank you! You’re welcome, Skidmark. Next time, replacing the square brackets with angle brackets, set the URL as follows: [a href=“URL”]text to be seen by the reader[/a] |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-12 11:11 |
| #7 But remember, enlightened Eurines will always hasten to screech that it's Americans demand for illegal drugs that sustains the world markets for said same. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-02-12 07:49 |
| #6 This route has been used since the mid-nineteen eighties, and in that early period involved relatives of the top people in Brazil's government. The route was interdicted for a time and a new one opened through Mali. Undoubtedly, Mauretania has been used for years. Whack-a-mole. |
| Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 2018-02-12 07:35 |
| #5 Thank You, Skidmark. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-12 04:17 |
| #4 Thank you! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-12 01:54 |
| #3 Cocaine from the Andes via W. Africa to Europe |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-12 00:28 |
| #2 On its way to Europe in the flotilla of migrants. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-12 00:18 |
| #1 Cocaine from South America? That would be Hizb’allah, then, presumably with Al Qaeda in North Africa at the receiving end. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-12 00:04 |