National security services of the Tangier-Med port aborted on Monday a major international smuggling operation and seized a total of one ton and 355 kilograms of cocaine, according to a statement by the General directorate of National Security.
Inspection of “the suspicion method of sealing a container carried on a sea transport vessel,” drove the security services to investigate, said the statement. The vessel carried the flag of a European country, that had departed from a port in t Brazil and was heading towards the ports of Anvers and Portbury.
Inspections showed that the method of smuggling of the shipment was based on the rip-on/rip-off method.
The method is common among drug gangs especially in Brazil. The United nations Office on Drugs and Crime describes Rip-on/Rip-off as “a concealment methodology whereby a legitimate shipment, usually containerized, is exploited to smuggle contraband (particularly cocaine) from the country of origin or the transhipment port to the country of destination.
In “rip-off” cases, neither the shipper nor the consignee is aware that their shipment is being used to smuggle illicit cargo. For this method to be successful there will always be local conspiracy both in the country of origin or the transhipment port as well as in the destination country.”
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