| Until the moment when 16 terrorist attacked in | | | | the authorities in Rabat in collaboration with UN |
| Casablanca and caused the killing of 44 people, | | | | Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is considered |
| the Moroccan regime had been taking a low | | | | Morocco opening to international collaboration. The |
| profile in the treatment of cannabis crop growing | | | | UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa, |
| and trafficking. In the 90s, the former king Hassan | | | | who has held extensive meetings with various |
| II formed an agency for the development of | | | | specialists and consultants from the Moroccan |
| northern Morocco under the auspices of the | | | | Royal Palace Alawite estimated that is a seriously |
| Ministry of Interior. The cultivation and smuggling | | | | situation. This represents a 180 degree change in |
| of hashish had a formal treatment "The | | | | attitude from Morocco for many years. |
| production is legal and controlled... traffic is | | | | Brussels closely monitor all movements of money |
| penalized, but you can fight as long as demand... " | | | | from, to and within the European Union. The fight |
| the benefits are extended to the European mafia. | | | | against terrorism and drug trafficking charges, |
| The attacks in Casablanca and the fear of an | | | | each time has a higher price. The police control |
| alliance between Islam and the violent drug gangs | | | | increase in Europe, on the streets and |
| changed Mohamed VI ideas. The area for drug | | | | transportation systems with more agents and |
| farming was 100,000 hectares and the production | | | | presence of television cameras. European |
| stood at just over 2,000 tons. Today, the | | | | governments, even skeptics now have confirmed |
| Moroccan Government admits, for the first time | | | | the will to close the terrorist international financial |
| that exists 134,000 hectares of crops which | | | | world. Brussels aims to "seal the sources of |
| produce 3080 tons of hashish. For sharing profits, | | | | financing of international terrorism". |
| data compiled by the Agency of Northern | | | | Under the draft regulations submitted by the |
| Development, "farmers" receive $ 214 million | | | | Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, the personal |
| (0.57% of Moroccan GDP), while "Traffickers" are | | | | information on both the sender and destination |
| pocketing 12,000 million. It is not clear what is the | | | | and the consignee of all wire transfers to and |
| area reserved for drug traffickers operations in | | | | from the European Union are recorded, stored |
| Morocco and those for acting outside the country | | | | and used in case of suspected people and money |
| that have Moroccan nationality. | | | | have to do with terrorism and / or drugs. |
| The alarm went off when, after complaints by | | | | The credit institutions must notify the police and |
| some independent media, the security services | | | | research institutions in the information collected |
| arrested thirty commanders of their own security | | | | when there is suspicion of money laundering and / |
| forces and the judiciary, police, gendarmes, | | | | or connections to terrorism and drug trafficking. |
| customs officers, spies, and judges. Due to the | | | | For any transfers within the European Union on |
| seizure of guns among drug dealers bloody | | | | behalf of paying sufficient and bank account |
| clashes between rival gangs resulted in several | | | | number. "If the receiving bank requires more |
| deaths. This event pushed the regime of | | | | information, persons involved are required to |
| Mohamed VI to seek international help to | | | | deliver," said a finance expert from the European |
| eradicate this problem. | | | | Commission. So far the bank of the recipient |
| The ramifications of the Islamist groups linked to | | | | knew little about the person running the |
| the Salafiya Jehadi with hashish trafficking | | | | shipments. |
| networks made to fear "the Colombian scenario", | | | | The monitoring and information delivery will be |
| as has been reported repeatedly in the | | | | made regardless of the amount of money |
| independent Moroccan press, as vetoed by the | | | | involved, because even at low amounts can fund |
| Moroccan government | | | | terrorism. |
| Since the killings in Casablanca, the anti-terrorist | | | | The new regulations not only lies with the banks |
| services have arrested more than 6,000 people, | | | | and bank drafts, but also lawyers, notaries, real |
| of which 1500 are already in jail, purging | | | | estate dealers and owners of casinos. They are |
| sentences between two and twenty years. | | | | required to establish the identity of participants in |
| The National Intelligence Center, concerns with the | | | | transactions over 15,000 Euros. Moreover, in case |
| developments in northern Morocco, where the | | | | any of the professionals were to be suspicious |
| "cells" terrorists. Police operations dismantled | | | | about the provenance or destination of money |
| terrorist camps in areas controlled by drug | | | | involved, should report it to authorities. |
| traffickers. | | | | The monitoring of money transfers is really part |
| The possibility of an alliance between rival drug | | | | of the Action Plan against Terrorism, which the |
| trafficking and Islamic terrorism native gangs or | | | | European Union dismissed after the violent events |
| network linked to Osama bin Laden has warned all | | | | of 11th September and has been adapted to the |
| Western intelligence services. | | | | situation. |
| The publication of the Report on drugs made by | | | | |