The Criminal Chamber at the Rabat Court of Appeal, responsible for financial crimes, delivered its verdict last week in a case of international drug trafficking, involving three technicians in charge of the scanner at the Tanger Med port complex. , the director of an international freight transport company and three drivers from the same company.
According to Al Akhbar of this Monday, January 13, “after a final marathon hearing, the court chaired, on appeal, by magistrate Rguig, announced the sentence which confirmed the sentences of criminal imprisonment handed down at first instance against all those involved in this case, except for one, who saw his sentence increase from four to five years in prison».
Daily sources explain that “the judgments rendered by the court of appeal against the seven accused in this case range from acquittal for two people to eight years of criminal imprisonment, or a total of 28 years in prison, against five accused».
These penalties were accompanied by fines exceeding five million dirhams, in addition to approximately 270 million dirhams to be paid to the Customs Administration, indicate the same interlocutors.
The same verdict sentenced the three technicians in charge of the scanner at the Tanger Med port complex to fifteen years in prison, in total: “six years in prison and a fine of 200,000 dirhams, for the first, five years in prison, accompanied by a fine of 140,000 dirhams for the second and four years in prison and a fine of 165,000 dirhams for the third».
This affair, recalls the daily, became known when elements of the prefectural service of the Judicial Police of Tangier defeated, in coordination with their counterparts at the Tanger Med port, and on the basis of precise information provided by the services of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), an international drug trafficking operation aboard an international goods transport truck.
Par Mohamed Younsi
01/12/2025 at 7:18 p.m.
