The Moroccan law-enforcement services intercepted six drug traffickers in possession of quantity of cocaine weighing 226 kilograms in the central city of Marrakesh Thursday night.
The drug was tightly hidden in a fish refrigerator truck coming from the southern parts of the country en route to the international market, Marrakesh police chief Mohammad Al-Dakhisi told reporters on Friday.
"The seizures and arrests are the fruit of surveillance of the vehicle and close coordination among various security services," he pointed out.
"The driver and his aide as well as two other accomplices were arrested in Marrakesh which two others were arrested in Rabat," Al-Dakhisi said, noting that efforts and investigations are underway to arrest the other members of the international drug-trafficking ring.
The seizures are valued at 226 million Moroccan dirhams (some USD 26.62 million), he added.
International drug traffickers use Morocco as a key transit point between the drug producing countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, on one hand, and the consumers in Europe and North America, on the other.