Lawyer and dealer held in Tunis; 4 kg cannabis, 8 kg cocaine seized
Tunisia's anti-drug judicial police held lawyer Ghazi Mrabet and a wanted dealer serving a 40-year sentence after a search at the dealer's home found 4 kg of Indian hemp, over 8 kg of cocaine and 394,000 dinars. The two face charges of band drug dealing and money laundering.
The Tunis public prosecutor authorised the anti-drugs sub-directorate of the
judicial police to hold lawyer Ghazi Mrabet and a wanted drug dealer, already
serving a 40-year prison sentence, on drug-dealing charges.[1]
The two were caught in the act at the searched dealer’s home, where the search
seized more than 8 kg of cocaine, 4 kg of Indian hemp and 394,000 dinars in
cash.[1]The lawyer allegedly tried to obstruct the officers so the dealer
could flee before both were caught.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Cannabis
4 kg
Cash confiscated
TND 394,000
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (4 kg)
Activity
Sale, Trafficking, Money and assets
Setting
Home
Charges
drug dealing; forming a band to deal drugs; money laundering
The exact weight of the cocaine is not stated; the sources say 'more than 8 kg', so no cocaine figure is recorded.
Later accounts of the case describe the cannabis as 40 slabs of zatla and the cash as 400,000 dinars, so the report uses the 4 kg and 394,000 dinars figures from the TAP judicial source.
The 40-year prison sentence refers to the dealer's prior conviction, not a sentence given for this case.
Later steps of the case are reported: on 8 September 2026 the detention was extended by five more days, and on 16 September 2026 an investigating judge remanded nine suspects, including Mrabet, in a 21-person international network file; no trial outcome is recorded here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Presse de Tunisie: The Tunis prosecutor's office authorised the anti-drug sub-directorate of the judicial police to hold lawyer Ghazi Mrabet and a wanted drug dealer, already serving a 40-year prison sentence, on drug-trafficking charges.
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Tunis National Guard investigators dismantled a cross-border cannabis-trafficking network and arrested three key suspects, including two wanted Tunisians and a foreign courier who allegedly swallowed the drug. Officers seized an unspecified quantity of cannabis and suspected dealing proceeds, and prosecutors ordered all three held.
National security units in Sousse dismantled at dawn on 12 November 2026 a drug-trafficking network that operated between the Sousse and Kairouan governorates and supplied nightclubs. One man, described as the principal member of the network, was arrested and the authorities said a significant quantity of cocaine and cannabis was seized.
National Guard officers in Mohamedia, Ben Arous, arrested two men and a woman and seized Indian hemp, cocaine, about 7,000 drug tablets and cash approaching 25,000 dinars. The Ben Arous prosecutor ordered legal procedures; no cannabis weight was published.