Morocco dismantled a drug-trafficking network of 7 members, 2 of them are Spanish, the network used to smuggle drugs to Europe in coordination with AQIM.
The sources added that the members of this network, ran by foreign people, managed to move big amounts of cocaine from Mali to Morocco, and exported the rest to European countries.
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The announcement of Moroccan interior ministry about dismantling an international network of 7 people, including 2 Spanish, to smuggle and trade drugs in Morocco and smuggling them to Europe in coordination with AQIM came to open a file that rarely been closed in recent years. The case sheds light on the relation between AQIm and the cross continents criminal networks.
The ministry’s announcement said the Moroccan security services managed to dismantle a dangerous criminal network that has branches in Latin America, Europe and Africa and it deals with cocaine and cannabis and exports them to Europe through land, sea, and air ways.
The sources added that the members of this network, ran by foreign people, managed to move big amounts of cocaine from Mali to Morocco, and exported the rest to European countries.
The network also smuggled considerable amounts of foreign currencies outside according to the statement that added the criminal network was based in Mali and had ties to AQIM.
The case is not the first as few months ago, the Mauritanian army captured a convoy of cars that were crossing the desert on the borders with Mali with more than 2 tons of drugs on the way to Europe, a group of Al Qaeda militants were providing protection to convoy and that led to an armed clash between the Mauritanian army and the armed gang that resulted into the death of 4 and arresting the group.
Observers see that Al Qaeda has made an agreement with the smuggling gangs in the Sahara area according to the security for money base as Al Qaeda is providing protection for smugglers while they provide it with arms and money while both of them seize the absence of security monitoring on the borders between Mali, Mauritania and Algeria
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