Moroccan police have taken into custody four people suspected of being involved in a “criminal” network of international organ and drug trafficking, operating in particular between Morocco and Turkey, AFP learned on Tuesday from a security source.
The investigation was triggered following an announcement, published on social networks, offering kidney samples “in private clinics abroad against large sums of money in foreign currency”, indicated the Management. General of National Security (DGSN) in a press release. The four suspects, including three women, served as intermediaries in this trafficking by helping people wishing to sell their organs to go abroad, notably to Turkey, where two victims were identified by Moroccan investigators.
They “exploited certain victims in operations of reception and transport of quantity of drugs” in Morocco and elsewhere, specifies the press release of the DGSN. These activities were carried out in connection with “a criminal network operating outside Morocco, made up of foreign nationals involved in the harvesting and sale of organs”, adds the same source.
During searches, the police seized money in Moroccan dirhams and foreign currencies, receipts for foreign transfers, blood group analyses of “potential victims”, cannabis, and mobile phones, according to the DGSN. The investigation is continuing in coordination with the Interpol office in Turkey in order to apprehend all the accomplices, Moroccans or foreigners, involved in this trafficking.
