Authorities at the port of Tangier Med foiled an international smuggling operation on Tuesday, seizing a total of 21,142 pills of various narcotic substances.
The shipment was discovered during a meticulous inspection aided by trained police dogs, targeting a foreign-registered utility vehicle that had arrived on a ferry from one of the Spanish ports. The drugs were found carefully hidden within children’s toys.
The driver of the vehicle, a Moroccan national, was arrested and placed under police custody by the order of the competent judicial authority, to investigate his potential connections to international drug trafficking networks.
This operation falls within the coordinated efforts of security and customs authorities to combat drug trafficking and curb transnational organized crime.
