32-year-old held in Kondar with 55 kg of cannabis and 171,000 dinars
Tunisian judicial police arrested a 32-year-old man in a van in the Kondar area of Sousse Governorate on 17 December 2018, finding 45 kg of cannabis hidden in the vehicle and bringing the total seized cannabis to 55 kg. A home search added 171,000 dinars, four cars and equipment, which police valued with the drugs at 1 million dinars; he was already sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison.
Judicial police officers on Monday 17 December 2018 arrested a 32-year-old man
in the Kondar area of Sousse Governorate on suspicion of drug trafficking and
smuggling, seizing 55 kg of cannabis and 171,000 Tunisian dinars.[1]They
stopped him in a van in which he had hidden 45 kg of cannabis.[1]The man was
already wanted under five arrest warrants for smuggling and drug trafficking and
had been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison.[1]
A search of the suspect’s home found 171,000 dinars, four cars, one motorcycle,
27 drug pills, seven different identity cards, two driving licences, 12 SIM
cards, a banknote counter, two electronic scales and several purchase contracts
for property in his name.[1]Police put the total value of the seizure at 1
million Tunisian dinars.[1]
The public prosecutor’s office placed the suspect in pre-trial detention (garde
à vue) for the investigation, and police were still looking for his accomplices.[1]
Photos and video
Photo published with the Kapitalis report on the Kondar arrest and seizure; the page gives no caption, credit or description of what it shows.Photo details
Only one opened source was found; web searches in French and Arabic returned no second account of the arrest.
Kondar is named as the area of the arrest but not the exact spot, so the coordinates are the locality centre.
The 27 drug pills and the 1 million dinar valuation are not identified as cannabis; the valuation covers the whole seizure, including cash and vehicles.
No cannabis-use prosecution, charge sheet or court outcome for this arrest is reported beyond the public prosecutor's garde à vue order; the 20-year term is an earlier in-absentia conviction, not a sentence passed for this arrest.
The page photo carries no caption or credit and is not confirmed to show this seizure.
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