One of worlds most wanted hashish smugglers arrested in. The united nations ranks morocco first among 129 countries for cannabis production, followed by afghanistan, lebanon, india and pakistan. Dont get us wrong, we do love everything about blogging and running the book smugglers. One of worlds most wanted hashish smugglers arrested in morocco. The network was smuggling hashish from morocco to spain by sea. Between school and university, he hitched around america in the mid1960s, taking lsd with timothy leary. Buy the paperback book recollections of a racketeer. Dec 01, 2016 ben ziane berhili, 57, the owner of a large dessert company in morocco, made the bulk of his income by smuggling 400 tons of hashish to europe every year, according to italian investigators. Palermo, italy one of the worlds most wanted hashish smugglers has been captured in casablanca, morocco, the italian police said on thursday, the highestprofile arrest yet in a threeyear antitrafficking operation that has spanned three continents. It happens in real life too, the increasing security importance has something to do with the fact that smuggling world is getting smarter every day, smugglers are using new tricks to smuggle their valuable things across border on a daily basis. With a career that was refined in the straits, bays and open ocean of the gulf of mexico and the atlantic ocean beyond, capt. If good recollections of a racketeer landed on my to read pile thanks to marcus scriven, who i see is mentioned in the acknowledgements section.
The darker side of boating has been exposed in a new memoir from retired drug runner stephen roffe. Jul 19, 2017 by the height of the book smuggling operations at the end of the 19th century, all sorts of lithuanians participated. Jan 07, 2010 when we started this blog two years ago, we had no idea where it would lead us. Hashish traffic at issue in moroccoalgeria tensions. Previously, skip discovered that his close friends brother was running hash back to the us from morocco. The hash brothers part 1 smuggling stories ganja outpost. Scots crime gangs hit by morocco hash drought as king orders. Ray defined the epitome of the peaceful gentlemen smuggler in the mid60s and early 70s. We had no real expectations to have actual readers other than close friends and family members, nor did we expect publishers and authors to contact us or to reply to us when contacted, and we definitely did not expect it to become such a huge part of our lives.
But the trafficking has escalated to huge cargo ships, on a route including a chaotic stretch of libya. One ring was reportedly using serbian exmilitary helicopter pilots to ferry product across the strait of gibraltar. In this story, skip outlines his initial runin with pure moroccan hash and the brave young men who were among the first to undertake the dangerous journey to moroccos atlas mountains and its supply of bricks of hashish. Diamonds are forever by ian fleming, runner by carl deuker, goldfinger by ian fleming, to have and have not by ernest hemingw. A tonne of hash was also found and 24 bank accounts were shut. Few can have led a life so full of courage and adventure, following his dreams. The network was smuggling hashish from morocco to spain by sea in total, 150 agents from several. Official rhetoric invokes a unified narcojihadist threat. Assuming youre a human being, you probably dig drugs, money, and movies.
The book is a great story about how several young people ages 20 25 leave the traditional route of college and job, travel to europe, live in buses or tents on the morocco beach, smoke hashish and end up smuggling it back to the u. The 19thcentury lithuanians who smuggled books to save their. Morocco can be seen from algeciras, the point where travellers catch the ferry across the gibraltar straits. Jan 28, 2016 the book opens in media res in 1971, with a knock at the door from the vice squad.
In the cold war between north african neighbors morocco and algeria, the latter has long used the status of the former as the worlds. Captain raymond grady stansel was an original player in the earliest days of caribbean cannabis smuggling. I spent some time in morocco recently, checking out the hash. As part of the fight against smuggling and organized crime, a detachment of the anp foiled, on friday, june 8, 2018, near the border area of oued smeira in tindouf 3 military region, an attempt by three 03 moroccan drug traffickers to smuggle a large amount of treated hashish, amounting to three 03 quintals and 25 kilograms, said the same statement. Before anyone had heard of the mexican cartels and the colombian kingpins, a group of cali surfers discovered weed in the 60s and figured out how. Everything you need to know about smoking kif in morocco. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading recollections of a racketeer. Nineteenthcentury french literature introduced him to a world of hashish, opium and absinthe, which he saw as a way of escaping his. Moroccan arrested while smuggling 20kg of hashish into ceuta. Thats why you should be praying to buddha that you get reincarnated as ron stevenson, his brother scott, or some of the other badass drug dealers that produced a movie in morocco as a cover for a fortunewinning hash smuggling scheme. Opposing imperial russian authorities efforts to replace the traditional latin orthography with.
Sep 14, 2016 hashish from morocco was once smuggled to europe a speedboat at a time. Smuggling hash and cash around the world kindle edition by lane, patrick, marks, howard. The chances of being granted a visa are slim for most so the turn to extreme tactics and deliver themselves into the hands of the people mafia. Sure there were some interesting insights into the life of young stuart glass, a gentle giant who travelled the hippie trail and did six months prison time in 1973 in the british nick, wormwood scrubs, for smuggling a small amount hash from morocco. Home destinations chefchaouen beauty, hashish and dangers in the blue city of morocco. Cannabis in morocco has been illegal since the nations independence in 1956, reaffirmed by a total ban on drugs in 1974, but is partially tolerated in the country.
The profile of a hashish smuggler who bribes corrupt officals, hates the british and americans with their defence and factories they hindered his smuggling trade, hates all honest capital, wealth and labour are the same profile of drug smugglers today. Answers lost at sea in foxy lady book phnom penh post. After teaming up with howard marks, they smuggled suitcases of hashish out of afghanistan and pakistan into europe and vw campers filled with. The book opens in media res in 1971, with a knock at the door from the vice squad. Morland is an established smuggler on the verge of the big time. With a good proportion of the moroccan male population smoking kif, as they call it, there is plenty of it to be found in this nation. Popular smuggling books meet your next favorite book. Rabat this week, the spanish civil guard dismantled a major drug trafficking crime ring.
Jun 08, 20 smoking hash in morocco travel anywhere in europe, where hash is a lot more prevalent than north america, and chances are you have heard someone talk about moroccan hash. Apr 30, 2017 police seized 350,000 euros, 16 cars, several guns and 17 properties worth three million euros across the south of spain and morocco. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Morocco,ben ziane berhili, 57, the owner of a large dessert company in morocco, made the bulk of his income by smuggling 400 tons of hashish to europe every year. We think of agents, traffickers and facilitators as the worst abusers of refugees, but when they set out to extort from their clients, when they cheat them or dispatch them to their deaths, they are only enacting an entrepreneurial version of the disdain which refugees suffer at the hands of far more powerful enemies those who terrorise them and those who are determined to keep them at. Spain and morocco in heavy crackdown on hashish networks. Anouk is a travel writer, editor, and agent raised in malawi and kenya with more than 15 years of experience working in the african travel industry. Yes, its quite possible its contaminated i saw lots of hash being sold to tourists that wasnt right, but usually its the darker bits. Spanish, moroccan police arrest 30 hash smugglers high times. Theyre charged a small fortune to be sped across the gibraltar straits to spain in. Spanish police smash drug smuggling ring daily mail online. As of 2016, morocco is the worlds top supplier of cannabis. Scots crime gangs hit by morocco hash drought as king.
Our story continues as skip learns about the exploits of the hash brothers in morocco. Apr 03, 2018 the moroccan security authorities in the mediterranean port of tangier foiled the smuggling of 200,000 tablets of the illegal drug ecstasy on monday. Nineteenthcentury french literature introduced him to a world of hashish, opium and absinthe, which he saw as a way of escaping his boring suburban english existence. Attempt to smuggle over 3 quintals of treated hashish by 3. Hashish traffic at issue in moroccoalgeria tensions high times. Cannabis has been cultivated in morocco for centuries and the country is currently among the worlds top producers of hashish. If you have been to the coffee shops of amsterdam and tried legal hashish, its likely that it came from morocco. Between school and university, he hitched around america in the. Unable to find any hashish as a schoolboy in north london, he went to morocco for supplies. Hash from ketama morocco, rifmountain, north morocco chocolate hash. Here are some of the best smuggling tricks that smugglers used and got busted during the checking. Hashish from morocco was once smuggled to europe a speedboat at a time. With brad davis, irene miracle, bo hopkins, paolo bonacelli. Moroccan hashish into europe through spain 278 found in small smuggling and wholesale operations involving less than 100 kg.
By the height of the book smuggling operations at the end of the 19th century, all sorts of lithuanians participated. Patrick alexander patrick lanes obsession with drugs began in his early teens. The kif is collected in a bag and the hash is extracted through a filter by hitting the bag with sticks. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Sep 30, 2017 morocco,ben ziane berhili, 57, the owner of a large dessert company in morocco, made the bulk of his income by smuggling 400 tons of hashish to europe every year. Algeciras is a town with the usual random menace of a port. For our second year of book smuggling, wed like to celebrate by taking a retrospective look at the past year, month by month, to revisit what we loved about blogging this year. Patrick lanes obsession with drugs began in his early teens. The worlds of hash smuggling and money laundering are alien to me but the book opens a door and im pleased i stepped inside. The book gives some insight into the feelings of glasss family and friends, but it bogs. Retired drug runner releases tellall motorboat memoir. Morocco is the worlds largest exporter of the sticky cannabis resin, and although its illegal to grow, harvest, possess or smoke it in the country itself, doing so is commonplace.
Madrid ap spanish police say 30 drug smugglers have been arrested in raids carried out in cooperation with morocco to bust a ring that. May 01, 2017 madrid ap spanish police say 30 drug smugglers have been arrested in raids carried out in cooperation with morocco to bust a ring that introduced hashish across the strait of gibraltar. Police seized 350,000 euros, 16 cars, several guns and 17 properties worth three million euros across the south of spain and morocco. If youre planning a backpacking trip to morocco, its likely that you will be approached at some point and offered hashish, which is known locally as kif. The hash brothers part 1 in the late sixities hash was a seldomseen delicacy for young heads. A smugglers tale penguin classics paperback december 18, 2007. Chefchaouen beauty, hashish and dangers in the blue city of morocco. In total, 150 agents from several units took part in the bust, and six people were arrested. The moroccan security authorities in the mediterranean port of tangier foiled the smuggling of 200,000 tablets of the illegal drug ecstasy on monday. Morocco over the past weeks, authorities in morocco and spain have unleashed sweeps against hashish smuggling networks, arresting hundreds. Morocco is the worlds largest exporter of the sticky cannabis resin, and although. Algeria turns off tap on moroccos smuggled petrol trade.
Moroccan arrested while smuggling 20kg of hashish into ceuta rabat a moroccan man trying to enter ceuta was arrested on friday, june 23 when he was found in possession of 20kg of hashish. Oct 15, 20 morocco has no oil reserves, so the authorities have been all the more inclined to turn a blind eye to the smuggling, which has saved millions of dollars on imports. Lithuanian book smugglers or lithuanian book carriers lithuanian. Morocco foils attempt to smuggle illegal drug middle. The 19thcentury lithuanians who smuggled books to save. Stephen roffe has opened up about his days smuggling hash from morocco to europe via gibraltar. Morocco foils attempt to smuggle illegal drug middle east. The crime ring had reportedly established a base near the chafarinas islands. Posted december 2, 2006 by road junky many moroccans choose to try their chances in europe without papers.
Smoking hash in morocco travel anywhere in europe, where hash is a lot more prevalent than north america, and chances are you have heard someone talk about moroccan hash. Smuggling hash and cash around the world by patrick lane at indigo. Billy hayes, an american college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of turkey and thrown into prison. Recollections of a racketeer paperback smuggling hash and cash around the world. Field listing illicit drugs central intelligence agency.
Jul 10, 2015 assuming youre a human being, you probably dig drugs, money, and movies. Moroccan chocolate hash click to enlarge photo a storyguide to smuggling medical hash by swallowing it. Worlds most wanted hashish smugglers arrested in morocco. Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of moroccan emigrants from as far away as norway and germany have descended on the dutyfree smugglers covemigrant frontier boomtown of nador, morocco. Spanish civil guard busts moroccan hashish smuggling ring. Scaling up a drug trade, straight through isis turf. Scaling up a drug trade, straight through isis turf the new. Ben ziane berhili, 57, the owner of a large dessert company in morocco, made the bulk of his income by smuggling 400 tons of hashish to europe every year, according to.
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