Until the terrorist attack in Casablanca and 16 caused the massacre of 44 people, the Moroccan regime had been taking a low profile in the treatment of hemp crop growth and traffic. In the 90s, the former king Hassan II established an agency for the development of northern Morocco under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior. The cultivation and smuggling of hashish had a formal treatment "that is legal and production ... penalizes traffic control, but you can fight while demand ..." The benefits will be extended to the European mafia.
The attacks in Casablanca and the fear of an alliance between Islam and violent drug gangs changed the ideas of Mohammed VI. The area for growing the drug was 100,000 hectares and production standing at just over 2,000 tonnes. Today, the Moroccan government admits, that exists for the first time 134,000 hectares of crops that produce 3080 tonnes of hashish. To share profits, data compiled by the agency of northern development, the "farmers" receive $ 214 million (0.57% of Moroccan GDP), while the "dealers" are pocketing 12,000 million. It is unclear which is the area reserved for the operations of drug traffickers in Morocco and those for temporary outside the country who have Moroccan nationality.
The alarm came when, after complaints by some independent means, the security services arrested thirty commanders of their own security forces and the judiciary, police, gendarmes, customs officers, spies, and judges. Because the seizure of weapons to traffickers bloody clashes between rival gangs resulted in several deaths. This event pushed the regime of Mohamed VI to try to international aid to eradicate this problem.
The ramifications of the Islamist groups linked to the Salafiya Jehadi to hashish trafficking networks made to fear "the Colombian landscape," as has been reported several times in the independent Moroccan press, as vetoed by the Moroccan government
Since the killings in Casablanca, the anti-terrorist services have arrested more than 6,000 people, of which 1500 are already in jail, purging sentences between two and twenty years.
The national intelligence center, concerns with developments in northern Morocco, where terrorists of the "cells". Police operations dismantled terrorist camps in areas controlled by drug traffickers.
The possibility of an alliance between rival drug trafficking gangs and native or Islamic terrorist network linked to Osama bin Laden has warned all Western intelligence services.
The publication of the report on drugs made by the authorities in Rabat in collaboration with UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is seen opening Morocco in international collaboration. The cost of executive director of UNODC Antonio Maria, who has held extensive meetings with various specialists and consultants of the Moroccan Royal Palace Alawite is seriously believed that a situation. This represents a 180 degree change in attitude of Morocco for many years.
Brussels closely monitors all movements of money, and within the European Union. The fight against trafficking charges of terrorism and drugs, is increasingly a higher price. The increased police control in Europe, in the streets and transportation systems with more agents and presence of television cameras. European governments, even skeptics will now have confirmed to close the international financial world of the terrorist. Brussels aims to "seal the sources of financing of international terrorism".
Under draft regulations submitted by the commission Charlie McCreevy, personal information about the sender and destination and the consignee of all wire transfers to and from the European Union is recorded, stored and used in case of suspicious people and money have to do with terrorism and drugs.
Credit institutions must notify the police institutions and research on information collected when there is suspicion of laundering and / or traffic connections to terrorist money and drugs.
For cuaesquiera transfers within the European Union to pay enough name and bank account number. "If the bank needs more information welcome require those involved to deliver," said a finance expert from the European Commission. The bank knew of the container until now little about the person running the shipments.
The monitoring and delivery of information will be made regardless of the amount of money involved, because even low amounts can fund terrorism.
The new regulations not only lie with banks and bank drafts, but also lawyers, notaries, dealers and real estate owners of casinos. The need to establish the identity of participants in transactions over 15,000 euros. Moreover, in case any of the professionals would be suspicious about the source or destination of money involved, you must disclose to the authorities.
The monitoring of money transfers is really part of the action plan against terrorism, which the European Union fired after the violent events of 11 September and has adapted to the situation.
Monday, January 4, 2010
