RABAT, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Morocco foiled on Monday an attempt to smuggle 2.99 tons of cannabis in the southwestern Atlantic town of Tan-Tan, and arrested one suspect, said a statement of the Moroccan police.
The police seized four inflatable boats, five engines, and sea equipment suspected of having been used in the international trafficking of drug and psychotropic pills, according to the statement.
A house was founded in a desert area 12 km southwest of Tan-Tan, suspected of serving as a rear base for the storage of drugs and sea equipment used by the trafficking network, the statement said.
Despite efforts to crack down on cannabis cultivation during the past decade, Morocco remains one of the world's largest producers of the narcotic plant, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
Moroccan security services seized 179,657 kg of cannabis in 2019, the Moroccan police revealed in its annual report on Dec. 25. Enditem
