Nearly 30 tonnes of hashish seized in two Casablanca busts
Moroccan police seized nearly 30 tonnes of hashish in Casablanca on 6 and 7 June 2014: 16.7 tonnes in a port shipping container, then 12 tonnes in a warehouse raid on what police treated as one Libya-bound consignment. Two men were arrested, including the suspected ringleader.
Moroccan police seized nearly 30 tonnes of hashish in Casablanca in two busts on 6 and 7 June 2014, one of the largest hauls in the country in years.[1][2]A day earlier, officers had found 16.7 tonnes in a shipping container at the port.[2]On 7 June they raided a warehouse in the port city and seized another 12 tonnes of the drug, known locally as chira.[1][2]Police treated both finds as one consignment.[2]
The container was apparently bound for Libya, and judicial police chief Abdelhak Khayyam said an investigation had opened into a large-scale operation sending drugs to an Arab country through Casablanca’s port.[2]Police arrested two men, including the suspected leader of the smuggling ring.[2]
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Royal Gendarmerie officers in Kalaat Sraghna raided an olive grove bordering Marchouh commune, seizing hashish, cannabis ears and traditional spirit, and arrested one suspect. The gendarmes said investigations were continuing to identify and arrest the others involved.
Royal Gendarmerie officers in Larache province arrested two men caught crushing cannabis at Douar Mahir, in Bni Garfat commune, and seized 2.26 tonnes of kif, of which 1,360 kilograms were stems and 900 kilograms already crushed material. The two were held in police custody under a prosecutor's inquiry, and the seized cannabis was destroyed under a mixed commission.
Royal Gendarmerie officers arrested four men and seized more than two tonnes of kif and smuggled tobacco from three vehicles in the Aoulouz area of Taroudant province, Morocco. The four were held on the public prosecutor's orders for an inquiry into where the shipment came from and where it was going.
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
