Dealer held in Monastir with 1.5 kg cannabis, cocaine and cash
Judicial police arrested a drug dealer at Ksibet El Mediouni, Monastir, seizing 14 slabs of cannabis weighing 1.5 kg alongside cocaine and large cash sums. The main dealer was detained while an identified accomplice linked to illegal sports betting remained wanted.
Judicial police arrested a drug dealer at Ksibet El Mediouni as part of a
drug-trafficking investigation in Monastir.[1]A raid by the Narcotics Brigade
and the judicial police, carried out in coordination with the prosecutor’s
office, led to the arrest of the main dealer.[1]An accomplice remained at
large after the operation and was the subject of a search warrant after being
identified.[1]The public prosecutor ordered the arrested dealer held in
detention while the investigation continued.[1]
Officers seized 14 slabs of cannabis weighing 1.5 kg together with cocaine
during the operation.[1]The same seizure included 22,895 euros and 78,424
Tunisian dinars in addition to other sums in foreign currency.[1]
The Interior Ministry announced the operation on 31 August 2022.[1]The
Interior Ministry said the at-large accomplice was also linked to an illegal
sports-betting network.[1]
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Arrested
1
Cannabis
1.5 kg
Agency type
Police, Prosecutor
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (1.5 kg)
Activity
Trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Kapitaliskapitalis.comFRMonastir : Un dealer de cocaïne et de cannabis arrêté en possession de devises et de plus de 78.000 DT
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no separate date for the raid; 31 August 2022 is the Interior Ministry statement and publication date and is used as the incident date.
No quantity was published for the seized cocaine, so no cocaine figure is recorded.
Cash was seized in multiple currencies, 22,895 euros plus 78,424 Tunisian dinars and other foreign sums, so no single value figure is recorded.
No court outcome beyond detention was reported, and the later fate of the wanted accomplice is unknown.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in French.
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