More than 20 tonnes of cannabis resin found in steel crates in Casablanca
Police in Casablanca found more than 20 tonnes of cannabis resin hidden in steel crates in a machinery consignment at an international transport firm's premises. The resin was bound for France; arrest warrants were issued but no arrests were reported.
Police in Morocco uncovered more than 20 tonnes of cannabis resin, described as one
of the country’s largest hashish hauls, hidden in steel crates bound for France, an
official said on Saturday 23 May 2009.[1]
Find and investigation
The crates were concealed in a consignment of machinery at the premises of an
international transportation company in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city and main
port.[1]Police launched an investigation after the find on Friday 22 May and issued
arrest warrants for those implicated; no arrests were reported.[1]The official added
that the final amount seized could exceed 24 tonnes.[1]
Context
Police gave no street value for this haul; the 32.2 tonnes seized at the port a month
earlier had been valued at three million euros (about $4.2 million).[1]Moroccan
authorities seized 110.8 tonnes of hashish in 2008, slightly down on the previous year,
according to official figures.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
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.
